Will AAP be at all elementary schools from now on? What about really small ones?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How many ES in FCPS have 2 classes per grade? We are at Fox Mill, which is pretty small, and have 4 classes per grade. There are about 600 kids at the school. I am pretty certain it is one of the smaller ES in FCPS, but a quick google search is not bringing up just an easy breakdown of kids per school.

Honestly, I would be surprised if there are too many schools that are under 400 kids.

But I believe that all ES are suppose to have a Local Level IV program by 2023-2024.

Fox Mill is functionally two classes per grade, though. There are two classes of Japanese Immersion, two classes of regular English. I suppose you could mix them on the English side, but immersion students take math and science in Japanese.

Without the immersion Fox Mill would be around 500, removing the kids from out of the boundary, so three classes? I am going to be interested to hear what AAP is like this coming year. I know they are going to put the LLIV kids into the AAP class for English and Social Studies. They already do Advanced Math in Japanese.

Maybe some of the smaller schools have mixed LLIV grades? So 3/4 and 5/6. It will be interesting to see how it works.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How many ES in FCPS have 2 classes per grade? We are at Fox Mill, which is pretty small, and have 4 classes per grade. There are about 600 kids at the school. I am pretty certain it is one of the smaller ES in FCPS, but a quick google search is not bringing up just an easy breakdown of kids per school.

Honestly, I would be surprised if there are too many schools that are under 400 kids.

But I believe that all ES are suppose to have a Local Level IV program by 2023-2024.

Does anyone know if this is still on track? I'm looking to buy a house but in one of the neighborhoods we love, the school does not currently have LLIV and there's no mention on the website that it's coming next year. I'm not interested in going to a center school for it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How many ES in FCPS have 2 classes per grade? We are at Fox Mill, which is pretty small, and have 4 classes per grade. There are about 600 kids at the school. I am pretty certain it is one of the smaller ES in FCPS, but a quick google search is not bringing up just an easy breakdown of kids per school.

Honestly, I would be surprised if there are too many schools that are under 400 kids.

But I believe that all ES are suppose to have a Local Level IV program by 2023-2024.

Does anyone know if this is still on track? I'm looking to buy a house but in one of the neighborhoods we love, the school does not currently have LLIV and there's no mention on the website that it's coming next year. I'm not interested in going to a center school for it.

Call the principal and ask. It may depend on how many kids defer LIV placement because they don't want to go to the center. If they have enough kids to fill a LLIV class, filling in with a few LIII kids, they may do that. This could also be entirely grade level dependent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How many ES in FCPS have 2 classes per grade? We are at Fox Mill, which is pretty small, and have 4 classes per grade. There are about 600 kids at the school. I am pretty certain it is one of the smaller ES in FCPS, but a quick google search is not bringing up just an easy breakdown of kids per school.

Honestly, I would be surprised if there are too many schools that are under 400 kids.

But I believe that all ES are suppose to have a Local Level IV program by 2023-2024.

Does anyone know if this is still on track? I'm looking to buy a house but in one of the neighborhoods we love, the school does not currently have LLIV and there's no mention on the website that it's coming next year. I'm not interested in going to a center school for it.

It is not on track and not sure if/when it will really happen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How many ES in FCPS have 2 classes per grade? We are at Fox Mill, which is pretty small, and have 4 classes per grade. There are about 600 kids at the school. I am pretty certain it is one of the smaller ES in FCPS, but a quick google search is not bringing up just an easy breakdown of kids per school.

Honestly, I would be surprised if there are too many schools that are under 400 kids.

But I believe that all ES are suppose to have a Local Level IV program by 2023-2024.

Does anyone know if this is still on track? I'm looking to buy a house but in one of the neighborhoods we love, the school does not currently have LLIV and there's no mention on the website that it's coming next year. I'm not interested in going to a center school for it.

It is not on track and not sure if/when it will really happen.

Center schools and the unnecessary bussing are a massive waste of resources.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How many ES in FCPS have 2 classes per grade? We are at Fox Mill, which is pretty small, and have 4 classes per grade. There are about 600 kids at the school. I am pretty certain it is one of the smaller ES in FCPS, but a quick google search is not bringing up just an easy breakdown of kids per school.

Honestly, I would be surprised if there are too many schools that are under 400 kids.

But I believe that all ES are suppose to have a Local Level IV program by 2023-2024.

Does anyone know if this is still on track? I'm looking to buy a house but in one of the neighborhoods we love, the school does not currently have LLIV and there's no mention on the website that it's coming next year. I'm not interested in going to a center school for it.

It is not on track and not sure if/when it will really happen.

Center schools and the unnecessary bussing are a massive waste of resources.

Massive is a strong word when you're talking about taking 8-11 year olds to their schools.

[Anonymous]

Smaller schools will use the cluster model like many of the new LLIV programs are using.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How many ES in FCPS have 2 classes per grade? We are at Fox Mill, which is pretty small, and have 4 classes per grade. There are about 600 kids at the school. I am pretty certain it is one of the smaller ES in FCPS, but a quick google search is not bringing up just an easy breakdown of kids per school.

Honestly, I would be surprised if there are too many schools that are under 400 kids.

But I believe that all ES are suppose to have a Local Level IV program by 2023-2024.

Fox Mill is functionally two classes per grade, though. There are two classes of Japanese Immersion, two classes of regular English. I suppose you could mix them on the English side, but immersion students take math and science in Japanese.

Belle View ES is two classes per grade. Small but mighty!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How many ES in FCPS have 2 classes per grade? We are at Fox Mill, which is pretty small, and have 4 classes per grade. There are about 600 kids at the school. I am pretty certain it is one of the smaller ES in FCPS, but a quick google search is not bringing up just an easy breakdown of kids per school.

Honestly, I would be surprised if there are too many schools that are under 400 kids.

But I believe that all ES are suppose to have a Local Level IV program by 2023-2024.

Does anyone know if this is still on track? I'm looking to buy a house but in one of the neighborhoods we love, the school does not currently have LLIV and there's no mention on the website that it's coming next year. I'm not interested in going to a center school for it.

Call the principal and ask. It may depend on how many kids defer LIV placement because they don't want to go to the center. If they have enough kids to fill a LLIV class, filling in with a few LIII kids, they may do that. This could also be entirely grade level dependent.

I emailed the principal with two questions and just got a form letter back halfway addressing one question and completely ignoring this one. I guess the answer is- not happening.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How many ES in FCPS have 2 classes per grade? We are at Fox Mill, which is pretty small, and have 4 classes per grade. There are about 600 kids at the school. I am pretty certain it is one of the smaller ES in FCPS, but a quick google search is not bringing up just an easy breakdown of kids per school.

Honestly, I would be surprised if there are too many schools that are under 400 kids.

But I believe that all ES are suppose to have a Local Level IV program by 2023-2024.

Fox Mill is functionally two classes per grade, though. There are two classes of Japanese Immersion, two classes of regular English. I suppose you could mix them on the English side, but immersion students take math and science in Japanese.

Belle View ES is two classes per grade. Small but mighty!

Lots of liv kids there stay at their base. I think the same goes for all of the schools in the neighborhoods along Ft Hunt Road

[Anonymous]

Olde Creek is 2 classes in many grades. They just started Level 4 this year and will be adding a grade each year. Seems hard in such a small school. One class would always be the AAP class and then limited shuffling of kids. We shall see, it may work fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Olde Creek is 2 classes in many grades. They just started Level 4 this year and will be adding a grade each year. Seems hard in such a small school. One class would always be the AAP class and then limited shuffling of kids. We shall see, it may work fine.

I think you'll get parents fighting to push in. If you have an aap class and a slow class, then the stakes are that much higher for non committee kids. Our school has 4 classes two of which have clusters and are advanced math. There's another class that usually has the behavioral issues and then a class the is gen ed, but has a lot of kids going to advanced math and takes the kids coming from the advanced classes down for math. It seems to work pretty well because you have a good shot of avoiding the bad class and if you get it one year, you can get out of having it again if you phrase your class request well.

[Anonymous]

Is Waples Mill going to get LLIV?