Falls Church City Elementary Schools

[Anonymous]

I think most of the students transferring into Marshall are the ones transferring out of Falls Church.

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Anonymous wrote:
Let's clarify one thing.

Homes east and south of Falls Church City are much lower.

Homes West and North of Falls Church City are as expensive, or much more expensive.

As you head east and/or south, the schools aren't comparable at all.

For what it's worth, McLean, Marshall and Stuart HS all get more "out-of-boundary" students transferring into the schools than "in-boundary" students transferring to other schools. Marshall HS now gets the most "out-of-boundary" students transferring into the school of any high school in Fairfax County, and Falls Church HS has the most "in-boundary" students transferring out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Let's clarify one thing.

Homes east and south of Falls Church City are much lower.

Homes West and North of Falls Church City are as expensive, or much more expensive.

As you head east and/or south, the schools aren't comparable at all.

For what it's worth, McLean, Marshall and Stuart HS all get more "out-of-boundary" students transferring into the schools than "in-boundary" students transferring to other schools. Marshall HS now gets the most "out-of-boundary" students transferring into the school of any high school in Fairfax County, and Falls Church HS has the most "in-boundary" students transferring out.

Why would anyone want to transfer into Stuart? I guess gang members want to be with gang members.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Why would anyone want to transfer into Stuart? I guess gang members want to be with gang members.

Attempting to have a discussion with a prejudiced, uniformed idiot is pointless.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:[
Why would anyone want to transfer into Stuart? I guess gang members want to be with gang members.

Stuart historically gets more transfers into the school than transfers out. This year, 35 more out-of-boundary students transferred into the school than transfered out. Like Marshall, Stuart gets a lot of transfers from Falls Church HS. The rest are mostly from Annandale HS. Obviously, it's snide to suggest any of those students are gang members. Gang members don't typically come from homes where the parents know how to do the paperwork for a timely pupil placement.

Kids may be able to get a good education at Falls Church HS as well, but it's a fact that parents who live in that attendance area are more likely than parents in any other part of the county to try and get their kids transferred to a different school. It's not surprising that people would pay more money for a house in FCC assigned to George Mason than a house across Lee Highway assigned to Falls Church.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think most of the students transferring into Marshall are the ones transferring out of Falls Church.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Let's clarify one thing.

Homes east and south of Falls Church City are much lower.

Homes West and North of Falls Church City are as expensive, or much more expensive.

As you head east and/or south, the schools aren't comparable at all.

For what it's worth, McLean, Marshall and Stuart HS all get more "out-of-boundary" students transferring into the schools than "in-boundary" students transferring to other schools. Marshall HS now gets the most "out-of-boundary" students transferring into the school of any high school in Fairfax County, and Falls Church HS has the most "in-boundary" students transferring out.

Marshall gets students from many different schools - primarily for the IB program. I know students who have transferred from Langley to Marshall for that reason. We also get a lot from McLean and Falls Church.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Marshall gets students from many different schools - primarily for the IB program. I know students who have transferred from Langley to Marshall for that reason. We also get a lot from McLean and Falls Church.

That's surely correct, but Marshall also gets more transfers from Falls Church HS than the other schools in the area (Madison, McLean and Langley) where students can pupil place to Marshall for the IB program.

And, while there are far more transfers from Falls Church to Marshall than vice versa, I think there are probably equal numbers of students going back and forth between Marshall and either McLean or Madison. There are lots of kids who transfer from Marshall to Madison for either AP courses or the sports teams. The founder of Sekas Homes lives in a huge house in the Marshall district and sends his kids to Madison, while continuing to build $1M homes on almost every large plot of land that's left in the Marshall district.

[Anonymous]

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I guess buying a condo to get into that school district is cheaper than buying a SFH.

There goes the neighborhood..

I know the second poster was joking, but this is depressing. I was considering those condos because that is what we can afford. I didn't know we would be looked down upon because of my non-profit salary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
I know the second poster was joking, but this is depressing. I was considering those condos because that is what we can afford. I didn't know we would be looked down upon because of my non-profit salary.

Guess again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think most of the students transferring into Marshall are the ones transferring out of Falls Church.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Let's clarify one thing.

Homes east and south of Falls Church City are much lower.

Homes West and North of Falls Church City are as expensive, or much more expensive.

As you head east and/or south, the schools aren't comparable at all.

For what it's worth, McLean, Marshall and Stuart HS all get more "out-of-boundary" students transferring into the schools than "in-boundary" students transferring to other schools. Marshall HS now gets the most "out-of-boundary" students transferring into the school of any high school in Fairfax County, and Falls Church HS has the most "in-boundary" students transferring out.

Marshall gets students from many different schools - primarily for the IB program. I know students who have transferred from Langley to Marshall for that reason. We also get a lot from McLean and Falls Church.

I'm sure there are always a few transfers, but again, they are only a few.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I guess buying a condo to get into that school district is cheaper than buying a SFH.

There goes the neighborhood..

I know the second poster was joking, but this is depressing. I was considering those condos because that is what we can afford. I didn't know we would be looked down upon because of my non-profit salary.

I personally would not say one way or the other, but I have never met a couple who moved into a neighborhood for the schools and lived in a condo. In fact, I always thought condos are for singles.

Given that you revealed that you work for a non-profit, my other assumption is that most people who work in non-profits (e.g. liberal) are more likely to be open to having their kids attend transition schools with a lot of diversity vice ensuring that their kids get into the best public schools which usually means neighborhoods with the least diversity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think most of the students transferring into Marshall are the ones transferring out of Falls Church.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Let's clarify one thing.

Homes east and south of Falls Church City are much lower.

Homes West and North of Falls Church City are as expensive, or much more expensive.

As you head east and/or south, the schools aren't comparable at all.

For what it's worth, McLean, Marshall and Stuart HS all get more "out-of-boundary" students transferring into the schools than "in-boundary" students transferring to other schools. Marshall HS now gets the most "out-of-boundary" students transferring into the school of any high school in Fairfax County, and Falls Church HS has the most "in-boundary" students transferring out.

Marshall gets students from many different schools - primarily for the IB program. I know students who have transferred from Langley to Marshall for that reason. We also get a lot from McLean and Falls Church.

I'm sure there are always a few transfers, but again, they are only a few.

pages 19 through 21 of this document show the pupil placements for a recent year.

http://www.fairfaxcaps.org/pdf/FfxCAPS_IB-AP_meeting_Slides_2009_01_14.pdf

Overall, Langley had a net loss of 14 students, McLean a net gain of 29, Marshall a net gain of 43, and Stuart a net gain of 28 from transfers. Falls Church had a net loss of 68 students. Looks like roughly equal transfers between McLean and Marshall.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
pages 19 through 21 of this document show the pupil placements for a recent year.

http://www.fairfaxcaps.org/pdf/FfxCAPS_IB-AP_meeting_Slides_2009_01_14.pdf

I find it easier to just use the dashboard.

http://www.fcps.edu/fts/dashboard/10-11dashboard.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
pages 19 through 21 of this document show the pupil placements for a recent year.

http://www.fairfaxcaps.org/pdf/FfxCAPS_IB-AP_meeting_Slides_2009_01_14.pdf

I find it easier to just use the dashboard.

http://www.fcps.edu/fts/dashboard/10-11dashboard.html

But I can't see how that provides information about which schools students from, say, Langley, are pupil placing to. It gives the overall numbers of students pupil placing into and out of a specific school, but does it show exactly what schools Langley kids are moving to in the way that the data in the Fairfax CAPS slides show?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

I find it easier to just use the dashboard.

http://www.fcps.edu/fts/dashboard/10-11dashboard.html

But I can't see how that provides information about which schools students from, say, Langley, are pupil placing to. It gives the overall numbers of students pupil placing into and out of a specific school, but does it show exactly what schools Langley kids are moving to in the way that the data in the Fairfax CAPS slides show?

It shows the UPDATED TOTAL number of students placing in and placing out of schools. (It is more current than Fairfax CAPS slides.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
I find it easier to just use the dashboard.

http://www.fcps.edu/fts/dashboard/10-11dashboard.html

The dashboard doesn't indicate transfers between individual schools, although it does indicate the total transfers in and out of individual schools.

Langley continues to have a net outflow of students (26 this year). That's not surprising, since Langley students who want IB get sent to Marshall or South Lakes, while Marshall or South Lakes students who want AP generally get sent to other schools (Falls Church, Madison or McLean, in the case of Marshall students, and Herndon, Oakton and Madison, in the case of South Lakes students). Falls Church has a net outflow of 103 students.

Madison, McLean, Marshall and Stuart all have net inflows of students: 41 at Madison, 40 at McLean, 46 at Marshall, and 35 at Stuart.

The poster who suggested that only a handful of students transfer to Marshall from schools other Falls Church offered no data to support that assertion. The CAPS data from a few years back shows the opposite.