Please tell me about Lake Braddock, South County, and Robinson HS
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Anonymous
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Swim team is competitive at LBSS
All of LBSS, South County, and Robinson are large. No real difference in the size of each class year - except that Robinson and LBSS have grades 7-12, so the school is larger. We are happy at LBSS but probably 6 of one, half a dozen of the other with all of these 3 schools. I would include WSHS in that assessment as well. |
Anonymous
If you’re looking in southern Fairfax, you’re likely looking at public schools. There just aren’t good private school options nearby. If you’re further east in Alexandria, there are some options, and a lot of people in the Langley area send their kids to privates, but people living in the areas where OP is looking are probably not going to schlep their kids to private school. |
Anonymous
| OP here - private school is not an option, and to reiterate, we are NOT looking for a neighborhood to buy a home in, so we don't care about that. Just looking for a school with a Japanese program, where a kid who isn't a future Olympic swimmer can make the swim team. |
Anonymous
Look into Woodson HS. Smaller and lots of Asian 4.0 kids there. |
Anonymous
| Given all your criteria, I would go with Lake Braddock. |
Anonymous
| Swim Team is competitive at all three schools mentioned, but probably less so at SOCO. |
Anonymous
+1 I don't think your kid is guaranteed a spot at any of these schools--or really most FCPS HS. So I wouldn't choose on that basis. |
Anonymous
Swim and dive team is walk-on guaranteed at a few schools like Lewis and Mt. Vernon. Falls Church may have trended that way as well. The smaller schools have a lot of spots available as most are no-cut. |
Anonymous
South Lakes High School has Japanese and a swim team. I don’t know how competitive the swim team is. Fox Mill ES feeds into SLHS and has a Japanese Immersion program at the ES so there are a decent number of kids who have been taking Japanese since first grade. There are also a good number of kids from Japan who live in the area because of the JI program at Fox Mill and Japanese being offered at the MS and HS that Fox Mill feeds into. I am not sure if you are targeting these schools because of their location or commute for work or if you are looking at other areas as well. I waited to post because it felt like you had specific schools in mind but the recvent post made me think that the Japanese was more important then the commute. |
Anonymous
| If Japanese and Swim Team are your main concerns, in nearby APS (Arlington Schools), all three high schools offer Japanese. The swim teams at W-L and Wakefield high schools are no cut, but there is a swim test requirement. You may want to confirm. I believe Yorktown HS has cuts, since the state championship swim team there is hyper competitive. But it’s more or less a low key sport at the other two high schools. As the PP wrote, you may want to check out South Lakes HS as well. |
Anonymous
The difference in the rent you’d pay in Arlington compared to a neighborhood near any of the high schools mentioned is immense. I agree with previous posters that your child can get an excellent education at any of the schools you mentioned. I’d probably choose LB for the Japanese option. I’d join a neighborhood swim club where your son can participate in swimming during the summers. I wouldn’t operate from the assumption that he would make a school team. |
Anonymous
Agreed. |