Thoughts on Fort Hunt Virginia?

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Anonymous wrote:Great if you have enough saved for private middle and high school

Racist much?

Not a racist, just a realist

More like not a realist, just a racist. We see you.

Here we go again. Making everything about race when it has nothing do to with race!

Yes, it does. The same UMC white kids who excel at Waynewood and Stratford continue to excel at Sandburg and West Potomac. So, if you say 'route 1 schools, ew' it's because you have some reason to think that people who live along Rt 1 (for those who are new to the discussion, are generally POC, heavily Latin immigrant population) should not be near your snowflake.

You hope, ghetto schools have a way of providing negative influences

[Anonymous]

We have lived here (22308) for 20 years. We love it for all the reasons mentioned above. We opted to send our 4 kids to private school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Isolated and cut off.

Curious about this? I am six minutes from Beltway and drive to Arlington/D.C. on parkway is piece of cake. What feels cut off to me is parts of Fairfax where the beltway feels like its 15 miles away.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My goodness, why are the schools ranked so awful on GS in this area?!

Schools in Moco with little diversity and high FARMS numbers have much better GS rankings then West Potomac...
Why is it ranked so poor?

It’s largely because of the AAP program, which pulls the highest performing kids out of their neighborhood schools and sends them to a center school starting in third grade, which is the year that kids take the Virginia SOL which are used to compute the Great Schools ratings...

I’m sure most schools would not fare well if you excluded the highest 20% of academic performers from their official evaluations.

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Anonymous wrote:My goodness, why are the schools ranked so awful on GS in this area?!

Schools in Moco with little diversity and high FARMS numbers have much better GS rankings then West Potomac...
Why is it ranked so poor?

It’s largely because of the AAP program, which pulls the highest performing kids out of their neighborhood schools and sends them to a center school starting in third grade, which is the year that kids take the Virginia SOL which are used to compute the Great Schools ratings...

I’m sure most schools would not fare well if you excluded the highest 20% of academic performers from their official evaluations.

Sorry, the above should apply to elementary schools in this area. Not sure how this affects middle and high school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My goodness, why are the schools ranked so awful on GS in this area?!

Schools in Moco with little diversity and high FARMS numbers have much better GS rankings then West Potomac...
Why is it ranked so poor?

It’s largely because of the AAP program, which pulls the highest performing kids out of their neighborhood schools and sends them to a center school starting in third grade, which is the year that kids take the Virginia SOL which are used to compute the Great Schools ratings...

I’m sure most schools would not fare well if you excluded the highest 20% of academic performers from their official evaluations.

Sorry, the above should apply to elementary schools in this area. Not sure how this affects middle and high school.

the AAP center is at Stratford Landing which recently jumped to 6 out of 10. West Potomac (along with MVHS) pulls from the RT1 corridor which is the poorest area in Fairfax. Langley and McLean don't have literal trailer parks within their bounds

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My goodness, why are the schools ranked so awful on GS in this area?!

Schools in Moco with little diversity and high FARMS numbers have much better GS rankings then West Potomac...
Why is it ranked so poor?

It’s because of the contrast in demographics. GS penalizes if low-income and minority students have a significant difference in test scores and performance than the rest of the school population. As noted above, there is a huge spectrum of students who attend here ranging from recent immigrants who are in need of ESL services to kids with dual fed scientist type parents.

Not that many of these in those public schools along Route 1. They tend to flee for better schools.

[Anonymous]

It trends red.

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Anonymous wrote:My goodness, why are the schools ranked so awful on GS in this area?!

Schools in Moco with little diversity and high FARMS numbers have much better GS rankings then West Potomac...
Why is it ranked so poor?

It’s largely because of the AAP program, which pulls the highest performing kids out of their neighborhood schools and sends them to a center school starting in third grade, which is the year that kids take the Virginia SOL which are used to compute the Great Schools ratings...

I’m sure most schools would not fare well if you excluded the highest 20% of academic performers from their official evaluations.

Sorry, the above should apply to elementary schools in this area. Not sure how this affects middle and high school.

the AAP center is at Stratford Landing which recently jumped to 6 out of 10. West Potomac (along with MVHS) pulls from the RT1 corridor which is the poorest area in Fairfax. Langley and McLean don't have literal trailer parks within their bounds

In addition to AAP issues, based on the two 22308/22309 neighborhoods I've lived in, I'd say about 30-40% of the kids attend private or Catholic schools for some or all of their K-12 education. Those are (mostly) high performing kids who are leaving the public school system. I would bet there is no other area in the DMV that loses such a high number of kids to private schools.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My goodness, why are the schools ranked so awful on GS in this area?!

Schools in Moco with little diversity and high FARMS numbers have much better GS rankings then West Potomac...
Why is it ranked so poor?

It’s because of the contrast in demographics. GS penalizes if low-income and minority students have a significant difference in test scores and performance than the rest of the school population. As noted above, there is a huge spectrum of students who attend here ranging from recent immigrants who are in need of ESL services to kids with dual fed scientist type parents.

Not that many of these in those public schools along Route 1. They tend to flee for better schools.

All the dual professional couples with kids either leave for other areas or they send their kids to Catholics/privates.

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Anonymous wrote:My goodness, why are the schools ranked so awful on GS in this area?!

Schools in Moco with little diversity and high FARMS numbers have much better GS rankings then West Potomac...
Why is it ranked so poor?

It’s largely because of the AAP program, which pulls the highest performing kids out of their neighborhood schools and sends them to a center school starting in third grade, which is the year that kids take the Virginia SOL which are used to compute the Great Schools ratings...

I’m sure most schools would not fare well if you excluded the highest 20% of academic performers from their official evaluations.

Sorry, the above should apply to elementary schools in this area. Not sure how this affects middle and high school.

the AAP center is at Stratford Landing which recently jumped to 6 out of 10. West Potomac (along with MVHS) pulls from the RT1 corridor which is the poorest area in Fairfax. Langley and McLean don't have literal trailer parks within their bounds

In addition to AAP issues, based on the two 22308/22309 neighborhoods I've lived in, I'd say about 30-40% of the kids attend private or Catholic schools for some or all of their K-12 education. Those are (mostly) high performing kids who are leaving the public school system. I would bet there is no other area in the DMV that loses such a high number of kids to private schools.

Alexandria City loses a lot too. Honestly, the reason why there are so many decent-but-not-stellar Alexandria privates that thrive (not naming any names....) is because they get all the kids whose parents find Route 1 schools and Alexandria City (Jefferson Houston and TCW) unacceptable.

You also have large #s of people from those areas fleeing for schools to places like Burke.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It trends red.

We lived in Belle Haven and we actually thought the diversity of the area was a good thing (we're a black/white couple) but onmyGodthisplace. We regularly got updates on the Belle Haven facebook page about "suspicious people" and one of them was my husband going for a walk!

I would say the area is shockingly conservative and I wouldn't say racist but I wouldn't not say racist, lol. I've met so many neighbors who didn't know my husband was black and said all sorts of crazy things to me (during that Belle Haven "ladies lunch").

We decamped to McLean which is oddly more progressive even though it's not nearly as diverse. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Anonymous]

We live in 22309.

Many kids go to private.

Isolated and cut off? Huh?

Our neighborhood probably had 20 Biden signs for every Trump sign.

Overall, we're very happy here.

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Anonymous wrote:It trends red.

We lived in Belle Haven and we actually thought the diversity of the area was a good thing (we're a black/white couple) but onmyGodthisplace. We regularly got updates on the Belle Haven facebook page about "suspicious people" and one of them was my husband going for a walk!

I would say the area is shockingly conservative and I wouldn't say racist but I wouldn't not say racist, lol. I've met so many neighbors who didn't know my husband was black and said all sorts of crazy things to me (during that Belle Haven "ladies lunch").

We decamped to McLean which is oddly more progressive even though it's not nearly as diverse. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Belle Haven trends toward Southern/Red folks who send their kids to Alexandria privates.

[Anonymous]

Love the area and the people. Has a real community vibe. My kids are ion elementary and middle and we’ve been happy.