Shrevewood Elementary

[Anonymous]

Could I have some feedback from parents with kids at Shrevewood? We are looking at a house zoned to Shrevewood-Kilmer-Marshall and have an almost elementary aged child. I know the school is rated highly and gets good test scores, but I'd love to hear feedback from parents who have children there now. Thanks!

[Anonymous]

My child goes there. It's a great community and my child has had some very caring teachers. They no longer have ability grouped classes for math and reading. The teacher differentiates in the classroom, which I have found to be wholly ineffective for my child, who floats around the middle of the class. A lot of time seems to be spent on the bottom and probably now the top not that their is local level four (although I don't have experience with that class other than knowing it's a class size In the teens so the kids presumably get more teacher attention).

For some reason, the test scores were awful last year. I'm curious to see the ones from the tests the kids took this spring. I've never heard an explanation as to what happened last year. Usually the test scores are really good.

Overall, it's a decent school. Could be better but could be a lot worse.

[Anonymous]

Both Shrevewood and Kilmer are projected to be among the more overcrowded schools in the county in a few years. On the plus side, Marshall just got renovated.

[Anonymous]

I, personally, don't get all spun up about overcrowding if it's a good school. Also, FCPS is not known for accurate projections.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I, personally, don't get all spun up about overcrowding if it's a good school. Also, FCPS is not known for accurate projections.

Both of those schools are already above-capacity, Kilmer by almost 150 students last year. The question really is just how much more overcrowded they get and what will FCPS do about it. It can send some AAP kids at Kilmer to Cooper, but in Shrevewood's case parents are probably looking at a lot of trailers unless FCPS can find some money not currently in the capital budget for an addition.

[Anonymous]

How many students are projected to move from Kilmer to Cooper when factoring both 7th and 8th grades?

[Anonymous]

Interestingly, FCPS shows Cooper Middle increasing by about 70 students in 2018. Anyone know why this would happen other than accommodating AAP children currently slated for Kilmer?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I, personally, don't get all spun up about overcrowding if it's a good school. Also, FCPS is not known for accurate projections.

Both of those schools are already above-capacity, Kilmer by almost 150 students last year. The question really is just how much more overcrowded they get and what will FCPS do about it. It can send some AAP kids at Kilmer to Cooper, but in Shrevewood's case parents are probably looking at a lot of trailers unless FCPS can find some money not currently in the capital budget for an addition.

Such drama. Trailers are not the end of the world.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I, personally, don't get all spun up about overcrowding if it's a good school. Also, FCPS is not known for accurate projections.

Both of those schools are already above-capacity, Kilmer by almost 150 students last year. The question really is just how much more overcrowded they get and what will FCPS do about it. It can send some AAP kids at Kilmer to Cooper, but in Shrevewood's case parents are probably looking at a lot of trailers unless FCPS can find some money not currently in the capital budget for an addition.

Such drama. Trailers are not the end of the world.

No drama, just a fact about two overcrowded schools in a school district that has other spending priorities right now.

[Anonymous]

It will never be as crowded as haycock.

The scores from most elementary schools dropped in Fairfax County because they switched to a computer based test for elementary school children. Many of the elementary schools have purchased additional laptops and changed their curriculums to accommodate for the deficit, next year the scores should all be back up to where they were the year before.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/all-virginia-students-to-use-computers-for-standardized-tests/2013/05/20/e473f924-bd9c-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_story.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It will never be as crowded as haycock.

FCPS has Shrevewood at 125% of capacity in the fall of 2018 and Haycock at 92% of its post-renovation capacity in 2018, but perhaps they have under-estimated Haycock's future enrollment. It would not be the first time.