Which are the top 2 school clusters in NoVA?
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Anonymous
To be fair, if they are crushing it at at Chantilly, they still aren't crushing it. A teacher there told me they have 60 base school kids at TJ. With Carson and RR, all their STEM talent goes there. |
Anonymous
Chantilly - top 1/3 West Springfield - top 1/2 |
Anonymous
Not talking about Chantilly. When I think of big FCPS HS's, I pretty much think LB, Robinson... Also, the obsession with stem is hilarious. I'll take a well rounded high achieving student, who is star of the team, play, first chair, sga president... that's crushing it, and those are the kids I don't worry about. Success is just sort of a given. |
Anonymous
Centreville, Chantilly, Lake Braddock, Robinson, West Potomac and Westfield all have over 2500 HS students. Probably more kids crushed than "crushing it" at those places. |
Anonymous
So, what you're saying is that there are a lot of good students in chantilly pyramid? |
Anonymous
The better, not the worst, pyramids tend to send the most kids to TJ: Oakton 156 McLean 150 Langley 147 Chantilly 147 Westfield 105 South Lakes 90 Woodson 86 Madison 53 Marshall 51 Centreville 48 Fairfax 44 Lake Braddock 40 Annandale 38 Robinson 36 Herndon 27 Edison 26 South County 23 Hayfield 22 West Potomac 19 West Springfield 19 Falls Church 15 Lee 14 Stuart 13 Mount Vernon 4 |
Anonymous
In some: Madison and Woodson, people are happy with the base option. |
Anonymous
Same here in McLean. I was surprised at how many of DC's friends opted out of the TJ route. |
Anonymous
No, it's more a function of where the three strongest MS AAP programs - Carson, Longfellow and Rocky Run - are located. The AAP schools for Madison (Jackson and Kilmer) and Woodson (Frost) aren't getting as many kids into TJ. |
Anonymous
There are all kinds of metrics: SOL pass rate (GS), SAT scores/% taking SATs, % kids taking AP/scoring high....And now we have % of kids who go to TJ, which may be the worst metric and be indicative of something other than the quality of the pyramid. |
Anonymous
| Langley and McLean are the best, and it's even more telling when you see how many kids from those pyramids are also at TJ. |
Anonymous
which is again not about school quality....but how rich the families are in those districts |
Anonymous
Who's to say the affluent aren't moving there in large part because the schools are strong? |
Anonymous
because the kids of other rich people go there. the ones who are born to privilege and are given every advantage possible. Come on, stop trying to spin this. The schools in this area that score the best are the schools with the richest people. Period. And Standardized scores always track with SES. |
Anonymous
I think it is an informed decision for Madison parents that they want there kids to stay at the school, there is a fierce pride there and kids who come from the community tend to stay in the community at the school for both academics and athletics/extracurriculars they have been involved in since elementary school. With Greg Hood as principal they celebrate all the students successes and, yes, learn from the challenges presented to them. Besides who can resist a school whose 6th man is led by a white rabbit...   
Like the other posters have said...you can't really go wrong with any of the top 6 or so schools in the county. We also have to realize that FCPS, even with what we see are its flaws, is one of the largest school districts in the country and with the (if not the) highest performing graduates overall (Montgomery Cty, MD is in the same category). |