Middle School after Colvin Run

[Anonymous]

If your child gets into the gifted program, where do they go to middle school since Cooper isn't a center? We are in 22182- Vienna- but the Langley pyramid.

Thanks!

[Anonymous]

Colvin Run splits between Longfellow and Kilmer for AAP MS

[Anonymous]

In what grade is your child currently?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If your child gets into the gifted program, where do they go to middle school since Cooper isn't a center? We are in 22182- Vienna- but the Langley pyramid.

Thanks!

In your case, Kilmer.

[Anonymous]

Then where for HS? All McLean?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Then where for HS? All McLean?

Cooper AAP to Langley after Kilmer unless TJ.

Longfellow AAP to McLean unless TJ.

Different areas of Vienna assigned to Colvin Run are zoned for Langley and McLean. Most of the students at the school live in Great Falls, even though the school is in Vienna, and are zoned for Langley.

[Anonymous]

But there's no Cooper AAP, right? Now I am confused.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:But there's no Cooper AAP, right? Now I am confused.

Was referring to AAP kids whose base school is Cooper.

There is no AAP at Cooper now. That could change in a few years, but no decision has been made.

[Anonymous]

Cooper does not currently have AAP. That will post certainly change in the next 1-5 years- probably closer to the one year than 5. Longfellow is at capacity and it expected to grow. Cooper is under capacity and expected to shrink. Kilmer is also over populated and predicted to grow.

If you are in Langley HS district, your child will go to Longfellow or Kilmer depending on your location. When your child is in HS, your DC will go to Langley. You can see this in the populations of the grades. The class sizes (7th and 8th) at Cooper are smaller than at Langley. The class sizes at Longfellow are much larger than McLean (they are headed towards 700 apiece now). Going from Longfellow to McLean, they drop by 150+ students. Some go to Langley, some to Marshall, some to TJ, some to private (but that is mitigated by the ones who went to MS for private and come back to public for HS).

Since Colvin Run is split, I would ask at the office where the line is between Kilmer and Longfellow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cooper does not currently have AAP. That will post certainly change in the next 1-5 years- probably closer to the one year than 5. Longfellow is at capacity and it expected to grow. Cooper is under capacity and expected to shrink. Kilmer is also over populated and predicted to grow.

If you are in Langley HS district, your child will go to Longfellow or Kilmer depending on your location. When your child is in HS, your DC will go to Langley. You can see this in the populations of the grades. The class sizes (7th and 8th) at Cooper are smaller than at Langley. The class sizes at Longfellow are much larger than McLean (they are headed towards 700 apiece now). Going from Longfellow to McLean, they drop by 150+ students. Some go to Langley, some to Marshall, some to TJ, some to private (but that is mitigated by the ones who went to MS for private and come back to public for HS).

Since Colvin Run is split, I would ask at the office where the line is between Kilmer and Longfellow.

You can just check the boundary locator now to find both the base and AAP assignments.

http://boundary.fcps.edu/boundary/

There are a lot of Longfellow students who go to the other schools mentioned, but McLean also gets students from Kilmer who pupil place from Marshall for AP (more, typically, than pupil place out of McLean for the IB program at Marshall). There were about 665 students in 8th grade at Longfellow in June 2012 and 545 in 9th grade at McLean in September 2012.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cooper does not currently have AAP. That will post certainly change in the next 1-5 years- probably closer to the one year than 5. Longfellow is at capacity and it expected to grow. Cooper is under capacity and expected to shrink. Kilmer is also over populated and predicted to grow.

I sincerely hope that Cooper does not become a center. It's a great school just as it is. When is this AAP madness going to stop?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cooper does not currently have AAP. That will post certainly change in the next 1-5 years- probably closer to the one year than 5. Longfellow is at capacity and it expected to grow. Cooper is under capacity and expected to shrink. Kilmer is also over populated and predicted to grow.

I sincerely hope that Cooper does not become a center. It's a great school just as it is. When is this AAP madness going to stop?

Kilmer and Longfellow are expected to get more crowded with the growth of Tysons, so it seems inevitable that the AAP kids from the Langley pyramid will be sent to Cooper, their base school, in a few years. FCPS thought about doing it this year, but many in-boundary parents of AAP students didn't think Cooper would be ready, and opening another AAP center in that part of the county would have underscored how many AAP kids come from affluent areas, at a time when others were complaining that poorer students are under-represented in the AAP programs. But at some point the capacity issues will take precedence over the other considerations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cooper does not currently have AAP. That will post certainly change in the next 1-5 years- probably closer to the one year than 5. Longfellow is at capacity and it expected to grow. Cooper is under capacity and expected to shrink. Kilmer is also over populated and predicted to grow.

I sincerely hope that Cooper does not become a center. It's a great school just as it is. When is this AAP madness going to stop?

+10,000 Couldn't agree more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cooper does not currently have AAP. That will post certainly change in the next 1-5 years- probably closer to the one year than 5. Longfellow is at capacity and it expected to grow. Cooper is under capacity and expected to shrink. Kilmer is also over populated and predicted to grow.

I sincerely hope that Cooper does not become a center. It's a great school just as it is. When is this AAP madness going to stop?

+10,000 Couldn't agree more.

So, what is your solution to increase the student body at Cooper to relieve the over crowding at Longfellow? Transfer the rest of Franklin Sherman and Chesterbrook to the Langley pyrimid?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cooper does not currently have AAP. That will post certainly change in the next 1-5 years- probably closer to the one year than 5. Longfellow is at capacity and it expected to grow. Cooper is under capacity and expected to shrink. Kilmer is also over populated and predicted to grow.

I sincerely hope that Cooper does not become a center. It's a great school just as it is. When is this AAP madness going to stop?

+10,000 Couldn't agree more.

So, what is your solution to increase the student body at Cooper to relieve the over crowding at Longfellow? Transfer the rest of Franklin Sherman and Chesterbrook to the Langley pyrimid?

I would assume that would be a first step. FCPS is always saying they are trying to get rid of split feeders. That seems like a no-brainer. They could then put FS AAP in Churchill Road instead of Haycock.