Churchill road vs haycocks

[Anonymous]

Does anyone have experience with both these center schools? Have you noted any differences and similarities between school culture, rigor, parents, size, etc?

[Anonymous]

Different pyramids, why do you care?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Different pyramids, why do you care?

I know pyramids are different. How are these two schools different?

[Anonymous]

Both are large. Both have a % of high powered highly motivated parents. Both have a decent number of "regular" parents. Both have highly supported student populations with college educate parents. Haycock seems to have more of an us vs them mentality between the AAP and GE populations. Churchill Road is unique in the area with many male teachers at the ES level. They are both high quality schools. I would pick the house that gives you and your spouse the shortest commutes as that will impact your children's lives more than the differences between Haycock and Churchill Road. Personally, if you are looking beyond ES, I would look at whether I would want Langley vs McLean.

If you are looking in the area, I would look very closely at Chesterbrook too. Chesterbrook keeps a high % of its AAP population and has a great local AAP program.

[Anonymous]

Good prior post. Also, Churchill will eventually have to feed to Cooper for AAP, not Longfellow. Whether this happens in 1 or 5 years is unknown. Longfellow has a great AAP program with some great teachers. Cooper is an unknown as of yet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would pick the house that gives you and your spouse the shortest commutes as that will impact your children's lives more than the differences between Haycock and Churchill Road.

+1

[Anonymous]

I'm not in the market for a new home. My current situation allows me the option of either Churchill Road or Haycock as center options.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Good prior post. Also, Churchill will eventually have to feed to Cooper for AAP, not Longfellow. Whether this happens in 1 or 5 years is unknown. Longfellow has a great AAP program with some great teachers. Cooper is an unknown as of yet.

They will probably grandfather existing students if that rule is enacted and only accept new students that are in the Cooper triangle.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm not in the market for a new home. My current situation allows me the option of either Churchill Road or Haycock as center options.

Is that option legally existing?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm not in the market for a new home. My current situation allows me the option of either Churchill Road or Haycock as center options.

Is that option legally existing?

In some circumstances, yes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm not in the market for a new home. My current situation allows me the option of either Churchill Road or Haycock as center options.

Is that option legally existing?

In some circumstances, yes.

What are those circumstances?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good prior post. Also, Churchill will eventually have to feed to Cooper for AAP, not Longfellow. Whether this happens in 1 or 5 years is unknown. Longfellow has a great AAP program with some great teachers. Cooper is an unknown as of yet.

They will probably grandfather existing students if that rule is enacted and only accept new students that are in the Cooper triangle.

Existing students at Longfellow, yes- basically the rising 7th graders - but not for existing students at Churchill Road.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good prior post. Also, Churchill will eventually have to feed to Cooper for AAP, not Longfellow. Whether this happens in 1 or 5 years is unknown. Longfellow has a great AAP program with some great teachers. Cooper is an unknown as of yet.

They will probably grandfather existing students if that rule is enacted and only accept new students that are in the Cooper triangle.

Existing students at Longfellow, yes- basically the rising 7th graders - but not for existing students at Churchill Road.

They will be in for a major fight if they try to force AAP students from Churchill to go to Cooper instead of Longfellow-everyone knows Longfellow and Kilmer are the only meaningful centers in town, esp if TJ is the end goal. Almost all of the AAP kids from CRS 6th grade went to Longfellow this year-no one thinks Cooper is anywhere close to the caliber of Longfellow, and it may never be.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm not in the market for a new home. My current situation allows me the option of either Churchill Road or Haycock as center options.

Is that option legally existing?

In some circumstances, yes.

What are those circumstances?

Let's stick to the thread topic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good prior post. Also, Churchill will eventually have to feed to Cooper for AAP, not Longfellow. Whether this happens in 1 or 5 years is unknown. Longfellow has a great AAP program with some great teachers. Cooper is an unknown as of yet.

They will probably grandfather existing students if that rule is enacted and only accept new students that are in the Cooper triangle.

Existing students at Longfellow, yes- basically the rising 7th graders - but not for existing students at Churchill Road.

They will be in for a major fight if they try to force AAP students from Churchill to go to Cooper instead of Longfellow-everyone knows Longfellow and Kilmer are the only meaningful centers in town, esp if TJ is the end goal. Almost all of the AAP kids from CRS 6th grade went to Longfellow this year-no one thinks Cooper is anywhere close to the caliber of Longfellow, and it may never be.

They are already in Phase I for the 2014/2015 school year and the voluntary AAP at Cooper. I predict it will become the Center school for the 2015 or 2016 school year. There are too many students at Kilmer and soon to be too many at Longfellow. Fight all you want, the writing is on the wall.