Kenmore Middle School in Arlington
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Anonymous
| We're looking at a house that is zoned for good elementary and secondary schools, but also for Kenmore middle school. Is it as bad as the test scores make it seem? |
Anonymous
| Wakefield pyramids are considered one of the worst in Virginia. |
Anonymous
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I know people with kids at Kenmore, and they are happy with the education their children are getting. Some are zoned for W-L for high school. Jefferson is also an option for some of those neighborhoods. We've been very happy with Jefferson. It is also considered "undesirable" by some. Both Kenmore and Jefferson have a lot of English learners, but this has had no negative impact on my son's education at all.
(Arlington Forest is a very nice neighborhood, if that's where you are looking) |
Anonymous
Do they teach subject-verb agreement in the Yorktown pyramid? |
Anonymous
| My DD will go to Kenmore, so I don't have first hand experience yet, but our neighbors with kids there are very happy with their experience there. |
Anonymous
\ Just shut up, you racist twat. |
Anonymous
+1 A fairly decent number of kids at Kenmore will go on to W-L, which most people agree is a very strong high school. |
Anonymous
Swanson, Williamsburg, Kenmore and TJ ALL have a population of kids that will naturally feed into W-L. |
Anonymous
OP, ignore these stupid posters. If you are an involved parent and expect your kids to go to college, they will do fine at Wakefield. It's a big school with a successful AP program. Naviance shows 2013 college acceptances as follows (note--this is a small subset of acceptances) Bates Bowdoin (3) Brown Berkeley Cal Tech (2) Columbia (5) Cornell (2) Dartmouth Duke (4) Georgetown (5) Georgia Tech (3) Harvard Johns Hopkins (4) MIT Michigan (3) Northwestern (2) Oberlin (4) U Penn (2) Princeton (2) Smith (2) Stanford Swarthmore West Point UVA (39) William and Mary (35) Williams Yale (2) I live in S. Arlington and have ZERO concerns about my kids' ability to be prepared for a top school, supported in getting into said school, and having a large peer group of kids who are also planning to go to competitive schools. It is just a NON ISSUE and I'm so tired of stupid DCUM trolls acting like Wakefield is the Black Hole of Calcutta. |
Anonymous
So, when you are out and about in Arlington, and you encounter children from another pyramid, do you assume that all of their parents are awful people for making different choices than you did? Or don't you let your children participate in any activities where the riffraff might show up? |
Anonymous
Hahaha. Pp, you were so burned! (Yes, it was an intentional use of 6th grade vernacular. I figured pp could more easily relate.) |
Anonymous
| I've been very happy with Kenmore for my kids. They've had great teachers and the arts focus has been a big bonus. My son (now in 9th) was well prepared for high school. If you have concerns, visit the school. We visited before we bought the house and were really impressed. |
Anonymous
Harvard??? from Wakefield HS? Is s/he AA? |
Anonymous
There's not a large peer group of kids going to top schools from Wakefield. This is total rubbish. |
Anonymous
there's 100 kids on that list. how's that total rubbish? |