FCPS High School prestige ranking
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Anonymous
Not based on numbers, besides Robinson is IB. Not a discussion about which is superior (there are other threads for that). More academically focused families prefer Woodson. |
Anonymous
It’s not just about college admissions, although they are important. It’s about school environment, how enjoyable the experience is, and the peer group and the behaviors of the peers. |
Anonymous
Yeah, good idea. Someone should start a new thread. 1) Cooper 2) Longfellow 3) Thoreau 4) Rocky Run 5) Frost 6) Irving 7j Lake Braddock |
Anonymous
Agreed. The happiness of my child at the school is a huge factor. |
Anonymous
Longfellow is superior to Cooper. |
Anonymous
+1. Nearly twice as many Longfellow students earn admission to TJ as compared to Cooper: All FCPS middle schools are represented in the Class of 2029: Longfellow Middle School - 48 Cooper Middle School - 25 Frost Middle School - 19 Katherine Johnson Middle School - 14 Kilmer Middle School - 13 Lake Braddock Middle School - 17 Rocky Run Middle School - 22 |
Anonymous
You'd better hope your Longfellow kid gets into TJ because McLean HS is falling apart and dropping in the rankings. It had a good principal but now she's gone, too. |
Anonymous
FIFY. |
Anonymous
Why is this the indicator of “good”? I have no desire for my kids to go to TJ. Many people don’t. And it’s not because they aren’t smart enough. |
Anonymous
Because it is directly related to the strength of peers, which is the metric parents use to assess schools. It also points out that some school are punching below or over their weight. Notably Irving MS historically sends less than 10 every year yet tends to be trumpeted quite often as a better option than Lake Braddock. |
Anonymous
Longfellow is the distilled essence of entire NOVA population tiger parents (no, sabretooth parents). In every single activity the level of parental involvement is insane. In one Science Olympiad event a parent probably spent a couple of thousand dollars to develop a binder packed with information that the students can take inside for the test. It was so professionally done and the information is so well organized and intuitive to find. No other school is going to come close to matching that level of parental influence and getting 1st in the state level competition is nearly a given. |
Anonymous
DP. Amen to that. In addition, I'm pretty sick of only the STEM kids being considered "smart". Plenty of humanities-focused kids are off-the-charts bright - but of course, TJ is a STEM school so we never hear about the humanities geniuses. 
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Anonymous
Carson? |
Anonymous
Its omission tells you all you need to know about the smarts of someone ranking Cooper #1. |
Anonymous
This is pretty close to a list ranked by average family income. In terms of academics, Woodson is 2nd by a decent margin. Langley, McLean and Oakton mostly just benefit from having affluent families. Which is legit, but their success has nothing to do with the school. Chantilly is probably 3rd for me. Edison is very close 4th. The rest of the school's just reflect the socioeconomic of their catchment are |