Tell me about Kenmore - APS

[Anonymous]

According to the state data, in 2021-22, Kenmore reported 65 offenses categorized as "behaviors of a safety concern" and 33 "behaviors that endanger the health safety, or welfare of self or others. For comparison, Swanson's numbers were 10 and 11. That is concerning.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:According to the state data, in 2021-22, Kenmore reported 65 offenses categorized as "behaviors of a safety concern" and 33 "behaviors that endanger the health safety, or welfare of self or others. For comparison, Swanson's numbers were 10 and 11. That is concerning.

how do you find this state data? can you post a link?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:According to the state data, in 2021-22, Kenmore reported 65 offenses categorized as "behaviors of a safety concern" and 33 "behaviors that endanger the health safety, or welfare of self or others. For comparison, Swanson's numbers were 10 and 11. That is concerning.

how do you find this state data? can you post a link?

It’s from the reports for each school at schoolquality.virginia.gov. Under the “learning environment” tab.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Keep in mind that depending on where your future house is located, your kid and their friends may end up in separate high schools. Kids who attend Kenmore & live north of highway 50 go to W&L (I believe) and south go to Wakefield. Kenmore may (or might not) become the new immersion location but the SB put that convo on hold. You might consider joining Arlington Education Matters to get a feel for how some parents feel about APS. So far we are still new to Kenmore but find the staff responsive (but we are heavily involved and pay for a lot of external activities for our kid).

Not exactly. The neighborhood where the school is located, s of 50, and all the way down to Columbia Pike but west of 4MR are zoned to WL. Only a small number of Kenmore PUs are zoned Wakefield.

[Anonymous]

Maybe stay in Fairfax. That’s where we would prefer being and are looking to move out of APS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe stay in Fairfax. That’s where we would prefer being and are looking to move out of APS.

Aren't Fairfax middle schools even more crowded?

[Anonymous]

Your kid will have to be pretty independently motivated to thrive in a school like Kenmore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:According to the state data, in 2021-22, Kenmore reported 65 offenses categorized as "behaviors of a safety concern" and 33 "behaviors that endanger the health safety, or welfare of self or others. For comparison, Swanson's numbers were 10 and 11. That is concerning.

Wouldn’t much of that be stuff like marijuana possession?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:According to the state data, in 2021-22, Kenmore reported 65 offenses categorized as "behaviors of a safety concern" and 33 "behaviors that endanger the health safety, or welfare of self or others. For comparison, Swanson's numbers were 10 and 11. That is concerning.

Wouldn’t much of that be stuff like marijuana possession?

Nice middle schoolers smoking weed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:According to the state data, in 2021-22, Kenmore reported 65 offenses categorized as "behaviors of a safety concern" and 33 "behaviors that endanger the health safety, or welfare of self or others. For comparison, Swanson's numbers were 10 and 11. That is concerning.

Wouldn’t much of that be stuff like marijuana possession?

No, more likely this relates to a bunch of Tik Tok challenges, and some fighting, that kids were doing that year. There was a cohort of kids who were a mess, likely because of being out of school during Covid. They missed the end of ES and start of MS and had a lot of trouble readjusting. It’s likely there were more kids like this at Kenmore since the school has a larger population of kids whose parents did not work from home and supervise them/their schooling during Covid. This cohort has now moved on to HS. I bet the numbers are down at MS and up at HS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:According to the state data, in 2021-22, Kenmore reported 65 offenses categorized as "behaviors of a safety concern" and 33 "behaviors that endanger the health safety, or welfare of self or others. For comparison, Swanson's numbers were 10 and 11. That is concerning.

Wouldn’t much of that be stuff like marijuana possession?

No, more likely this relates to a bunch of Tik Tok challenges, and some fighting, that kids were doing that year. There was a cohort of kids who were a mess, likely because of being out of school during Covid. They missed the end of ES and start of MS and had a lot of trouble readjusting. It’s likely there were more kids like this at Kenmore since the school has a larger population of kids whose parents did not work from home and supervise them/their schooling during Covid. This cohort has now moved on to HS. I bet the numbers are down at MS and up at HS.

After that many serious incidents I’d hope the school would expel the students.

[Anonymous]

At Kenmore the kids are not able to eat lunch outside because there were so many fights. Swanson kids are allowed to eat outside.

[Anonymous]

I'll put it this way... no one moves to a neighborhood to go to Kenmore. People DO move to neighborhoods to avoid Kenmore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'll put it this way... no one moves to a neighborhood to go to Kenmore. People DO move to neighborhoods to avoid Kenmore.

I know a number of kids that transfered to kenmore because of their arts focus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'll put it this way... no one moves to a neighborhood to go to Kenmore. People DO move to neighborhoods to avoid Kenmore.

I know a number of kids that transfered to kenmore because of their arts focus.

So the constant violence is OK as long as there is an arts focus?