Data for middle schools for TJ

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Anonymous wrote:Previous years.
https://www.fcag.org/tjstatistics.shtml

I haven’t seen the class of 2026 data yet.

Thank you! Just what I was looking for.

You will notice the traditional feeders were reduced 33-50% in the name of equity compare 2024 vs 2025

The top STEM students are no longer going to TJ

Yes, the affluent families from those schools were less able to game admissions.

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And this gives access to TJ for other hard-working kids in the community. Not just the kids who happen to come from affluent families who know how to exploit the system.

The best way to have exploited the new system was to be an above-average student at a middle school where the level of interest in TJ remained relatively low.

Do you have a list of those schools? We were thinking about moving into one in order to improve our kids chances?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So basically the good schools are good enough and TJ should be an alternative for the kids who’d otherwise attend schools that aren’t very good?

That won’t do anything to improve the schools that aren’t very good (in fact it will strip them of kids who might have been role models), but it will change TJ from a top STEM magnet to a charter-like school for some families otherwise faced with less appealing alternatives.

That’s kind of ironic, given how much FCPS freaks out at any mention of charters.

It’s not “charter-like” at all. Or maybe you have a bizarre understanding of charter schools.

Apparently better than you. You might want to read up on their attributes.

Please describe the attributes you associate with charter schools.

Some that come to mind:

* located in declining school districts (check)

* largely functioning to give parents at the worst schools an alternative (check)

* selective (check) (feel free to read Valerie Strauss and Kevin Welner on this topic)

* function with greater autonomy than other schools in the same district (check)

* more likely to push out kids who don't make the school look successful (check)

BS.

Despite the RWNJ propaganda you read, FCPS isn’t “declining”.

TJ was just named #1 HS in the nation again so they must be doing something right.
#1 in National Rankings
#1 in Virginia High Schools
#1 in Washington, DC Metro Area High Schools

And FCPS has 8 out of 10 top HSs in VA.
https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/virginia


And TJ is certainly not “largely functioning to give parents at the worst schools an alternative”. GMAFB. Did they even admit the top 1.5% at every school?

Sure, FCPS has some of the top schools in the state because it still has parents compensating for the glaring weaknesses in FCPS. Now look at the growing number of schools in FCPS nowhere near the top 10.

And the latest TJ rankings are based entirely on the performance of recent graduates admitted years ago under the system that you and your crony friends worked so hard to overturn. Come back in 5-6 years when the rankings are based on the performance of kids admitted under the new pork-barrel spoils system.

FCPS and TJ are fine. More than fine.

And TJ is not like a charter.

So you got called out and your response was to run away from the facts?

Your ilk wants to take credit for the accomplishments of recent TJ graduates after you spent years calling them toxic, test-prepped robots.

PP was full of sh1t. No facts.

More facts than your citing a US News ranking based entirely on the performance of TJ students under the now-discarded admissions process, moron.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So basically the good schools are good enough and TJ should be an alternative for the kids who’d otherwise attend schools that aren’t very good?

That won’t do anything to improve the schools that aren’t very good (in fact it will strip them of kids who might have been role models), but it will change TJ from a top STEM magnet to a charter-like school for some families otherwise faced with less appealing alternatives.

That’s kind of ironic, given how much FCPS freaks out at any mention of charters.

It’s not “charter-like” at all. Or maybe you have a bizarre understanding of charter schools.

Apparently better than you. You might want to read up on their attributes.

Please describe the attributes you associate with charter schools.

Some that come to mind:

* located in declining school districts (check)

* largely functioning to give parents at the worst schools an alternative (check)

* selective (check) (feel free to read Valerie Strauss and Kevin Welner on this topic)

* function with greater autonomy than other schools in the same district (check)

* more likely to push out kids who don't make the school look successful (check)

BS.

Despite the RWNJ propaganda you read, FCPS isn’t “declining”.

TJ was just named #1 HS in the nation again so they must be doing something right.
#1 in National Rankings
#1 in Virginia High Schools
#1 in Washington, DC Metro Area High Schools

And FCPS has 8 out of 10 top HSs in VA.
https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/virginia


And TJ is certainly not “largely functioning to give parents at the worst schools an alternative”. GMAFB. Did they even admit the top 1.5% at every school?

Sure, FCPS has some of the top schools in the state because it still has parents compensating for the glaring weaknesses in FCPS. Now look at the growing number of schools in FCPS nowhere near the top 10.

And the latest TJ rankings are based entirely on the performance of recent graduates admitted years ago under the system that you and your crony friends worked so hard to overturn. Come back in 5-6 years when the rankings are based on the performance of kids admitted under the new pork-barrel spoils system.

FCPS and TJ are fine. More than fine.

And TJ is not like a charter.

So you got called out and your response was to run away from the facts?

Your ilk wants to take credit for the accomplishments of recent TJ graduates after you spent years calling them toxic, test-prepped robots.

PP was full of sh1t. No facts.

More facts than your citing a US News ranking based entirely on the performance of TJ students under the now-discarded admissions process, moron.

Zero facts.

Pushing GOP propaganda.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So basically the good schools are good enough and TJ should be an alternative for the kids who’d otherwise attend schools that aren’t very good?

That won’t do anything to improve the schools that aren’t very good (in fact it will strip them of kids who might have been role models), but it will change TJ from a top STEM magnet to a charter-like school for some families otherwise faced with less appealing alternatives.

That’s kind of ironic, given how much FCPS freaks out at any mention of charters.

It’s not “charter-like” at all. Or maybe you have a bizarre understanding of charter schools.

Apparently better than you. You might want to read up on their attributes.

Please describe the attributes you associate with charter schools.

Some that come to mind:

* located in declining school districts (check)

* largely functioning to give parents at the worst schools an alternative (check)

* selective (check) (feel free to read Valerie Strauss and Kevin Welner on this topic)

* function with greater autonomy than other schools in the same district (check)

* more likely to push out kids who don't make the school look successful (check)

BS.

Despite the RWNJ propaganda you read, FCPS isn’t “declining”.

TJ was just named #1 HS in the nation again so they must be doing something right.
#1 in National Rankings
#1 in Virginia High Schools
#1 in Washington, DC Metro Area High Schools

And FCPS has 8 out of 10 top HSs in VA.
https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/virginia


And TJ is certainly not “largely functioning to give parents at the worst schools an alternative”. GMAFB. Did they even admit the top 1.5% at every school?

Sure, FCPS has some of the top schools in the state because it still has parents compensating for the glaring weaknesses in FCPS. Now look at the growing number of schools in FCPS nowhere near the top 10.

And the latest TJ rankings are based entirely on the performance of recent graduates admitted years ago under the system that you and your crony friends worked so hard to overturn. Come back in 5-6 years when the rankings are based on the performance of kids admitted under the new pork-barrel spoils system.

FCPS and TJ are fine. More than fine.

And TJ is not like a charter.

So you got called out and your response was to run away from the facts?

Your ilk wants to take credit for the accomplishments of recent TJ graduates after you spent years calling them toxic, test-prepped robots.

These ranking that some parents are obsessed with are mostly meaningless. The value of TJ is how well it serves the tax payers who support it. These changes to the selection process seems to accomplish that much better than the old system.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So basically the good schools are good enough and TJ should be an alternative for the kids who’d otherwise attend schools that aren’t very good?

That won’t do anything to improve the schools that aren’t very good (in fact it will strip them of kids who might have been role models), but it will change TJ from a top STEM magnet to a charter-like school for some families otherwise faced with less appealing alternatives.

That’s kind of ironic, given how much FCPS freaks out at any mention of charters.

It’s not “charter-like” at all. Or maybe you have a bizarre understanding of charter schools.

Apparently better than you. You might want to read up on their attributes.

Please describe the attributes you associate with charter schools.

Some that come to mind:

* located in declining school districts (check)

* largely functioning to give parents at the worst schools an alternative (check)

* selective (check) (feel free to read Valerie Strauss and Kevin Welner on this topic)

* function with greater autonomy than other schools in the same district (check)

* more likely to push out kids who don't make the school look successful (check)

BS.

Despite the RWNJ propaganda you read, FCPS isn’t “declining”.

TJ was just named #1 HS in the nation again so they must be doing something right.
#1 in National Rankings
#1 in Virginia High Schools
#1 in Washington, DC Metro Area High Schools

And FCPS has 8 out of 10 top HSs in VA.
https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/virginia


And TJ is certainly not “largely functioning to give parents at the worst schools an alternative”. GMAFB. Did they even admit the top 1.5% at every school?

Sure, FCPS has some of the top schools in the state because it still has parents compensating for the glaring weaknesses in FCPS. Now look at the growing number of schools in FCPS nowhere near the top 10.

And the latest TJ rankings are based entirely on the performance of recent graduates admitted years ago under the system that you and your crony friends worked so hard to overturn. Come back in 5-6 years when the rankings are based on the performance of kids admitted under the new pork-barrel spoils system.

FCPS and TJ are fine. More than fine.

And TJ is not like a charter.

So you got called out and your response was to run away from the facts?

Your ilk wants to take credit for the accomplishments of recent TJ graduates after you spent years calling them toxic, test-prepped robots.

These ranking that some parents are obsessed with are mostly meaningless. The value of TJ is how well it serves the tax payers who support it. These changes to the selection process seems to accomplish that much better than the old system.

Why? Are more children of tax-paying residents of Virginia attending TJ under the new system?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So basically the good schools are good enough and TJ should be an alternative for the kids who’d otherwise attend schools that aren’t very good?

That won’t do anything to improve the schools that aren’t very good (in fact it will strip them of kids who might have been role models), but it will change TJ from a top STEM magnet to a charter-like school for some families otherwise faced with less appealing alternatives.

That’s kind of ironic, given how much FCPS freaks out at any mention of charters.

It’s not “charter-like” at all. Or maybe you have a bizarre understanding of charter schools.

Apparently better than you. You might want to read up on their attributes.

Please describe the attributes you associate with charter schools.

Some that come to mind:

* located in declining school districts (check)

* largely functioning to give parents at the worst schools an alternative (check)

* selective (check) (feel free to read Valerie Strauss and Kevin Welner on this topic)

* function with greater autonomy than other schools in the same district (check)

* more likely to push out kids who don't make the school look successful (check)

BS.

Despite the RWNJ propaganda you read, FCPS isn’t “declining”.

TJ was just named #1 HS in the nation again so they must be doing something right.
#1 in National Rankings
#1 in Virginia High Schools
#1 in Washington, DC Metro Area High Schools

And FCPS has 8 out of 10 top HSs in VA.
https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/virginia


And TJ is certainly not “largely functioning to give parents at the worst schools an alternative”. GMAFB. Did they even admit the top 1.5% at every school?

Sure, FCPS has some of the top schools in the state because it still has parents compensating for the glaring weaknesses in FCPS. Now look at the growing number of schools in FCPS nowhere near the top 10.

And the latest TJ rankings are based entirely on the performance of recent graduates admitted years ago under the system that you and your crony friends worked so hard to overturn. Come back in 5-6 years when the rankings are based on the performance of kids admitted under the new pork-barrel spoils system.

FCPS and TJ are fine. More than fine.

And TJ is not like a charter.

So you got called out and your response was to run away from the facts?

Your ilk wants to take credit for the accomplishments of recent TJ graduates after you spent years calling them toxic, test-prepped robots.

PP was full of sh1t. No facts.

More facts than your citing a US News ranking based entirely on the performance of TJ students under the now-discarded admissions process, moron.

Zero facts.

Pushing GOP propaganda.

More like you idiots are pushing parents into the arms of the GOP with your race and class warfare.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So basically the good schools are good enough and TJ should be an alternative for the kids who’d otherwise attend schools that aren’t very good?

That won’t do anything to improve the schools that aren’t very good (in fact it will strip them of kids who might have been role models), but it will change TJ from a top STEM magnet to a charter-like school for some families otherwise faced with less appealing alternatives.

That’s kind of ironic, given how much FCPS freaks out at any mention of charters.

It’s not “charter-like” at all. Or maybe you have a bizarre understanding of charter schools.

Apparently better than you. You might want to read up on their attributes.

Please describe the attributes you associate with charter schools.

Some that come to mind:

* located in declining school districts (check)

* largely functioning to give parents at the worst schools an alternative (check)

* selective (check) (feel free to read Valerie Strauss and Kevin Welner on this topic)

* function with greater autonomy than other schools in the same district (check)

* more likely to push out kids who don't make the school look successful (check)

BS.

Despite the RWNJ propaganda you read, FCPS isn’t “declining”.

TJ was just named #1 HS in the nation again so they must be doing something right.
#1 in National Rankings
#1 in Virginia High Schools
#1 in Washington, DC Metro Area High Schools

And FCPS has 8 out of 10 top HSs in VA.
https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/virginia


And TJ is certainly not “largely functioning to give parents at the worst schools an alternative”. GMAFB. Did they even admit the top 1.5% at every school?

Sure, FCPS has some of the top schools in the state because it still has parents compensating for the glaring weaknesses in FCPS. Now look at the growing number of schools in FCPS nowhere near the top 10.

And the latest TJ rankings are based entirely on the performance of recent graduates admitted years ago under the system that you and your crony friends worked so hard to overturn. Come back in 5-6 years when the rankings are based on the performance of kids admitted under the new pork-barrel spoils system.

FCPS and TJ are fine. More than fine.

And TJ is not like a charter.

So you got called out and your response was to run away from the facts?

Your ilk wants to take credit for the accomplishments of recent TJ graduates after you spent years calling them toxic, test-prepped robots.

PP was full of sh1t. No facts.

More facts than your citing a US News ranking based entirely on the performance of TJ students under the now-discarded admissions process, moron.

Zero facts.

Pushing GOP propaganda.

More like you idiots are pushing parents into the arms of the GOP with your race and class warfare.

If those people think that the GOP is going to better support FCPS then they truly are idiots.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So basically the good schools are good enough and TJ should be an alternative for the kids who’d otherwise attend schools that aren’t very good?

That won’t do anything to improve the schools that aren’t very good (in fact it will strip them of kids who might have been role models), but it will change TJ from a top STEM magnet to a charter-like school for some families otherwise faced with less appealing alternatives.

That’s kind of ironic, given how much FCPS freaks out at any mention of charters.

It’s not “charter-like” at all. Or maybe you have a bizarre understanding of charter schools.

Apparently better than you. You might want to read up on their attributes.

Please describe the attributes you associate with charter schools.

Some that come to mind:

* located in declining school districts (check)

* largely functioning to give parents at the worst schools an alternative (check)

* selective (check) (feel free to read Valerie Strauss and Kevin Welner on this topic)

* function with greater autonomy than other schools in the same district (check)

* more likely to push out kids who don't make the school look successful (check)

BS.

Despite the RWNJ propaganda you read, FCPS isn’t “declining”.

TJ was just named #1 HS in the nation again so they must be doing something right.
#1 in National Rankings
#1 in Virginia High Schools
#1 in Washington, DC Metro Area High Schools

And FCPS has 8 out of 10 top HSs in VA.
https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/virginia


And TJ is certainly not “largely functioning to give parents at the worst schools an alternative”. GMAFB. Did they even admit the top 1.5% at every school?

Sure, FCPS has some of the top schools in the state because it still has parents compensating for the glaring weaknesses in FCPS. Now look at the growing number of schools in FCPS nowhere near the top 10.

And the latest TJ rankings are based entirely on the performance of recent graduates admitted years ago under the system that you and your crony friends worked so hard to overturn. Come back in 5-6 years when the rankings are based on the performance of kids admitted under the new pork-barrel spoils system.

FCPS and TJ are fine. More than fine.

And TJ is not like a charter.

So you got called out and your response was to run away from the facts?

Your ilk wants to take credit for the accomplishments of recent TJ graduates after you spent years calling them toxic, test-prepped robots.

These ranking that some parents are obsessed with are mostly meaningless. The value of TJ is how well it serves the tax payers who support it. These changes to the selection process seems to accomplish that much better than the old system.

Why? Are more children of tax-paying residents of Virginia attending TJ under the new system?

Actually, yes! Because the class size was increased by nearly 20%, indeed there are more children of Virginia taxapyers attending TJ now than there used to be.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So basically the good schools are good enough and TJ should be an alternative for the kids who’d otherwise attend schools that aren’t very good?

That won’t do anything to improve the schools that aren’t very good (in fact it will strip them of kids who might have been role models), but it will change TJ from a top STEM magnet to a charter-like school for some families otherwise faced with less appealing alternatives.

That’s kind of ironic, given how much FCPS freaks out at any mention of charters.

It’s not “charter-like” at all. Or maybe you have a bizarre understanding of charter schools.

Apparently better than you. You might want to read up on their attributes.

Please describe the attributes you associate with charter schools.

Some that come to mind:

* located in declining school districts (check)

* largely functioning to give parents at the worst schools an alternative (check)

* selective (check) (feel free to read Valerie Strauss and Kevin Welner on this topic)

* function with greater autonomy than other schools in the same district (check)

* more likely to push out kids who don't make the school look successful (check)

BS.

Despite the RWNJ propaganda you read, FCPS isn’t “declining”.

TJ was just named #1 HS in the nation again so they must be doing something right.
#1 in National Rankings
#1 in Virginia High Schools
#1 in Washington, DC Metro Area High Schools

And FCPS has 8 out of 10 top HSs in VA.
https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/virginia


And TJ is certainly not “largely functioning to give parents at the worst schools an alternative”. GMAFB. Did they even admit the top 1.5% at every school?

Sure, FCPS has some of the top schools in the state because it still has parents compensating for the glaring weaknesses in FCPS. Now look at the growing number of schools in FCPS nowhere near the top 10.

And the latest TJ rankings are based entirely on the performance of recent graduates admitted years ago under the system that you and your crony friends worked so hard to overturn. Come back in 5-6 years when the rankings are based on the performance of kids admitted under the new pork-barrel spoils system.

FCPS and TJ are fine. More than fine.

And TJ is not like a charter.

So you got called out and your response was to run away from the facts?

Your ilk wants to take credit for the accomplishments of recent TJ graduates after you spent years calling them toxic, test-prepped robots.

These ranking that some parents are obsessed with are mostly meaningless. The value of TJ is how well it serves the tax payers who support it. These changes to the selection process seems to accomplish that much better than the old system.

Why? Are more children of tax-paying residents of Virginia attending TJ under the new system?

Actually, yes! Because the class size was increased by nearly 20%, indeed there are more children of Virginia taxapyers attending TJ now than there used to be.

And more students across Northern Virginia will have access to TJ. Not just those from a handful of wealthy middle schools.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So basically the good schools are good enough and TJ should be an alternative for the kids who’d otherwise attend schools that aren’t very good?

That won’t do anything to improve the schools that aren’t very good (in fact it will strip them of kids who might have been role models), but it will change TJ from a top STEM magnet to a charter-like school for some families otherwise faced with less appealing alternatives.

That’s kind of ironic, given how much FCPS freaks out at any mention of charters.

It’s not “charter-like” at all. Or maybe you have a bizarre understanding of charter schools.

Apparently better than you. You might want to read up on their attributes.

Please describe the attributes you associate with charter schools.

Some that come to mind:

* located in declining school districts (check)

* largely functioning to give parents at the worst schools an alternative (check)

* selective (check) (feel free to read Valerie Strauss and Kevin Welner on this topic)

* function with greater autonomy than other schools in the same district (check)

* more likely to push out kids who don't make the school look successful (check)

BS.

Despite the RWNJ propaganda you read, FCPS isn’t “declining”.

TJ was just named #1 HS in the nation again so they must be doing something right.
#1 in National Rankings
#1 in Virginia High Schools
#1 in Washington, DC Metro Area High Schools

And FCPS has 8 out of 10 top HSs in VA.
https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/virginia


And TJ is certainly not “largely functioning to give parents at the worst schools an alternative”. GMAFB. Did they even admit the top 1.5% at every school?

Sure, FCPS has some of the top schools in the state because it still has parents compensating for the glaring weaknesses in FCPS. Now look at the growing number of schools in FCPS nowhere near the top 10.

And the latest TJ rankings are based entirely on the performance of recent graduates admitted years ago under the system that you and your crony friends worked so hard to overturn. Come back in 5-6 years when the rankings are based on the performance of kids admitted under the new pork-barrel spoils system.

FCPS and TJ are fine. More than fine.

And TJ is not like a charter.

So you got called out and your response was to run away from the facts?

Your ilk wants to take credit for the accomplishments of recent TJ graduates after you spent years calling them toxic, test-prepped robots.

These ranking that some parents are obsessed with are mostly meaningless. The value of TJ is how well it serves the tax payers who support it. These changes to the selection process seems to accomplish that much better than the old system.

Why? Are more children of tax-paying residents of Virginia attending TJ under the new system?

Actually, yes! Because the class size was increased by nearly 20%, indeed there are more children of Virginia taxapyers attending TJ now than there used to be.

That's a function of TJ's recent renovation and expansion, dumb ass, not the change in the admissions policy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kilmer went to having the fourth or fifth highest number of TJ admissions behind Carson, Longfellow, and Rocky Run (and sometimes Frost) to having the lowest percentage admissions rate of any FCPS middle school for the TJ Class of 2025.

Kilmer is in the Providence District, represented by Karl Frisch. FCPS Pride gave Frisch an award this weekend for his service to FCPS, also specifically including the LBGTQIA community.

If you aren't as thrilled with what Frisch has done for Kilmer and other Providence District schools and families as FCPS Pride, you know what to do next fall when the School Board is up for re-election.

What makes Kilmer so inherently special that falling from 5th place means something is wrong with FCPS policy? Consider the other dozen middle schools that sent less than 10 kids every year for the past decade. Was nothing wrong with FCPS policy then? Of course, it was benefitting you so the policy was perfect in your eyes. Why does the Providence district deserve something that the Mount Vernon district doesn't?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Kilmer went to having the fourth or fifth highest number of TJ admissions behind Carson, Longfellow, and Rocky Run (and sometimes Frost) to having the lowest percentage admissions rate of any FCPS middle school for the TJ Class of 2025.

Kilmer is in the Providence District, represented by Karl Frisch. FCPS Pride gave Frisch an award this weekend for his service to FCPS, also specifically including the LBGTQIA community.

If you aren't as thrilled with what Frisch has done for Kilmer and other Providence District schools and families as FCPS Pride, you know what to do next fall when the School Board is up for re-election.

What makes Kilmer so inherently special that falling from 5th place means something is wrong with FCPS policy? Consider the other dozen middle schools that sent less than 10 kids every year for the past decade. Was nothing wrong with FCPS policy then? Of course, it was benefitting you so the policy was perfect in your eyes. Why does the Providence district deserve something that the Mount Vernon district doesn't?

because some kids are smarter than other kids. Sending kids that aren't as talented to a governors school makes 0 sense.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Previous years.
https://www.fcag.org/tjstatistics.shtml

I haven’t seen the class of 2026 data yet.

Thank you! Just what I was looking for.

You will notice the traditional feeders were reduced 33-50% in the name of equity compare 2024 vs 2025

The top STEM students are no longer going to TJ

Yes, the affluent families from those schools were less able to game admissions.

My Kid is going to take Algebra 1 in 8th.... a super strong STEM kid. DC is doing things that a high schooler or college student is doing. How will you define a top STEM kid? Should my DC stop hoping or dreaming about TJ?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Previous years.
https://www.fcag.org/tjstatistics.shtml

I haven’t seen the class of 2026 data yet.

Thank you! Just what I was looking for.

You will notice the traditional feeders were reduced 33-50% in the name of equity compare 2024 vs 2025

The top STEM students are no longer going to TJ

Yes, the affluent families from those schools were less able to game admissions.

It is not affluent families gaming the system. You guys get it completely wrong. We bought older homes to live in McLean area for the schools. So the kids who are attending top feeders are really smart kids with lot of students with GPA 4. In addition, if you have noticed Longfellow MS made it to top 5 in Science Olympiad Nationals and also was in nationals in science bowl and other activities too. These are really hard working smart kids and we bought home what we thought was the right school for them. Just taking some TJ prep course won't help in all these.

Also there is nothing wrong in taking prep courses. We all are in life long learning. We learn from kids too and they learn from others as well. People who send to prep courses are not to get into TJ but to set a strong foundation for success

People who send their kids to enrichment course, like RSM or AoPS, build a strong foundation for success. They are learning skills and developing critical thinking abilities.

People who send their kids to prep classes are focused on one test and scoring high on that one test. That might help the kids for foundational skills but that is not the goal.

STEM clubs, enrichment classes and all that should be because the kids enjoy the activities and want to further their skills. That love of those activities will hopefully carry on into high school and college and adult life regardless of where they go to school.

Prep classes are to score well on one test. That could be the old Quant test for TJ or the SAT or the ACT but you don't continue prepping for a test after you have taken the test. It is not an activity that you are doing because you enjoy it. Prep classes have their place but the exams that people prep for have been declining in importance because admissions branches for programs across the board, from AAP to TJ to Universities, are aware that prep courses are inflating individuals scores and that those score differentials are more a mark of how well you are prepped and less of actual ability.

If you moved to a top school because academics are important to you, then not getting into TJ is disappointing but I am sure that your kids will have a great experience at McLean or Langley High School. Both of which offer a larger variety of courses then my kid will have a chance to take at South Lakes. The parents from Fox Mill had to petition and fight for math classes past Calculus because there were none when Fox Mill ES was switched to South Lakes. So few kids at SLHS got to that point that there were no options for the Fox Mill kids who were getting there. I doubt that has been an issue at McLean or Langley. The kids who are stronger in math and science in the lower SES MS schools have fewer opportunities then the kids at higher SES schools because the number of kids participating in the AP/IB programs is so much smaller. TJ is a world of difference for them in even the basic AP classes that are available.

HS across the county do not offer the same classes because the need for different types of classes is so starkly different. I get that TJ is important to a lot of bright kids and it is disappointing to not be accepted. But they are going to have opportunities at McLean or Langley or Oakton or Chantilly that kids at other HS won't.

Lots of bright, hard working kids are going to be disappointed with college acceptances as well. People are going to apply for jobs or promotions and not get them. Not getting what you want even when you work hard is a part of life. It is part of the parents job to teach their kid how to handle that with grace. So you can tell your kid "It is because you were the wrong race" or you can tell your kid "Rejection sucks. It's ok to be disappointed. But there are great opportunities at your base school and you will be able to study with more of your friends. What club or activity do you want to do that might push you? Let's find something after school."

Your argument is crap, every high school should offer advanced math and problem solve TJ can go back to taking the best students in STEM.

Look here's what actually needs to happen

They need to do a much better job identifying kids who actually belong in AAP and then those are the kids that should be going to TJ period. If you are taking Algebra 1 in 8th you aren't an advanced STEM student.

This geographic diversity and other needs equity garbage has to stop. As it currently stands TJ is no longer taking the best STEM students.

My Kid is going to take Algebra 1 in 8th.... a super strong STEM kid. DC is doing things that a high schooler or college student is doing. How will you define a top STEM kid? Should my DC stop hoping or dreaming about TJ?

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Anonymous wrote:Kilmer went to having the fourth or fifth highest number of TJ admissions behind Carson, Longfellow, and Rocky Run (and sometimes Frost) to having the lowest percentage admissions rate of any FCPS middle school for the TJ Class of 2025.

Kilmer is in the Providence District, represented by Karl Frisch. FCPS Pride gave Frisch an award this weekend for his service to FCPS, also specifically including the LBGTQIA community.

If you aren't as thrilled with what Frisch has done for Kilmer and other Providence District schools and families as FCPS Pride, you know what to do next fall when the School Board is up for re-election.

What makes Kilmer so inherently special that falling from 5th place means something is wrong with FCPS policy? Consider the other dozen middle schools that sent less than 10 kids every year for the past decade. Was nothing wrong with FCPS policy then? Of course, it was benefitting you so the policy was perfect in your eyes. Why does the Providence district deserve something that the Mount Vernon district doesn't?

You'd have to be deliberately obtuse not to know that FCPS pulled the rug out from under parents who'd sent their kids to AAP centers by suddenly allocating seats largely based on middle school quotas that reflected the schools that students were attending, and not their base schools.

So kids who weren't in AAP or were among the minority of AAP-eligible students who turned down the offer to attend an AAP center suddenly were advantaged in the admissions process, while others were disadvantaged - after they and their families thought they were doing exactly what FCPS had encouraged them to do to position themselves for admission to TJ.

That doesn't bother you, of course, because you basically see TJ admission as an exercise in "equal representation," akin to each magisterial district being allowed to have one seat on the Board of Supervisors. That's OK, one supposes, but it has little to do with the concept of a Governor's School or the notion that TJ exists to nurture the students with the most STEM aptitude. And, over time, it will lead to TJ's becoming a slightly better than average FCPS high school, but that's about it.