what is special about Carson
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Anonymous
| It seems to send a lot of students to TJ. New to the FCPS system and trying to understand how things work. |
Anonymous
| Longfellow district is too expensive now. Carson still has relatively affordable housing for the prepper/Tiger parent set. Kilmer is climbing too. |
Anonymous
| FWIW, Rocky Run MS seems to send the highest percentage of kids to TJ. |
Anonymous
Looks like this thread got lost in some racist rants.... To answer the OP question, Carson is one of the largest Middle School GT Centers in FX County. Most of the students that get into TJ High School (consistently ranked as one of the top 5 public high schools in the entire country) come from the largest MS GT Centers including Carson and Rocky Run. Unless things change radically in the next few years at county middle schools, it's likely to stay this way in the near future at least. |
Anonymous
 where is the racist rant? We went to the National Honor Society ceremony they had over there this year. The 70% figure is low. It was more like 85 or 90%. Presumably this is the group from which the TJ selectees are drawn.
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Anonymous
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Here's the TJ admit data from last year:
http://www.fcag.org/documents/FCPS_TJ_admits_2013.pdf |
Anonymous
Most if not all of the ones over 10 admitted are the GT Centers. Non-GT Centers generally send only 1 or 2 to TJ in a good year. |
Anonymous
I don't believe that's necessarily correct. Which area with an AAP center are you trying to push? |
Anonymous
Do you have a point to make about it? Generalizations are usually offensive. Carson Middle school is mostly white I think still according to the 2011 figures I just saw or evenly distributed between Asians (which includes East Indians...) and whites. However, I don't think anyone would be offended if you indicated this was because immigrant or first generation families are extremely hard working... |
Anonymous
Actually, I just ran some numbers on the 2013 admisssions and think that's about right (480 admits X 76% Fairfax X 90% public) = @328 FCPS students - 299 from the AAP centers = @30 from non-AAP schools /17 non-AAP schools = 1-2. My bad - sorry. |
Anonymous
Kilmer, Longfellow, Rocky Run and Carson are the "big" four. All are AAP centers. |
Anonymous
| not a single post on here discussing anything RCMS does that accounts for the number of students it sends to TJ. Yap all you want. It's all demographics folks. |
Anonymous
I think the whole atmosphere there is supposed to be good. I had a friend who moved from Herndon to Oakton and they made a point of only looking in parts of Oakton zoned for Carson AAP. They were not willing to look in Vienna as they did not want to be at either Jackson or Kilmer. |
Anonymous
| I have never heard of the BIG 4 for the MS in FCPS. Sounds like a real estate agent is trying to inflate the sales prices in the RCMS district. In FCPS, it's the HS that matter and know that rezoning is popular. If you want a top tier HS, aside from TJ, be sure to live relatively close to the HS - just ask the folks in Reston and Herndon that got rezoned to South Lakes from Oakton and watched their home prices fall as a result. Not kidding. Some of these areas are now 'affordable' and are selling for what my TH near one of the top HS would sell for. In FCPS, you really do get what you pay for- Location, location, location! |
Anonymous
I think the other poster was simply flagging the four middle schools with big AAP centers that often send the most kids to TJ. I've never heard the term used in real life. |