Moving to NOVA in a year - looking for good elementary schools that feed to good middle schools & HS

[Anonymous]

So, according to the posters on this site, only 8 to 9 public high schools in Northern Virginia appear to be worthy of attending. Oh how FCPS has fallen. Should we just close the other schools and squeeze all of the students into those awesome and worthy buildings?

Why are the other schools so unworthy? FCPS provides excellent resources to all of its schools. I think many of the posters on here are not real keen on the student bodies at the other schools. Hence, the next round of segregation.

OP beware, many posters on here are trying to prop up their own decisions and/or soothe their insecurities.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So, according to the posters on this site, only 8 to 9 public high schools in Northern Virginia appear to be worthy of attending. Oh how FCPS has fallen. Should we just close the other schools and squeeze all of the students into those awesome and worthy buildings?

Why are the other schools so unworthy? FCPS provides excellent resources to all of its schools. I think many of the posters on here are not real keen on the student bodies at the other schools. Hence, the next round of segregation.

OP beware, many posters on here are trying to prop up their own decisions and/or soothe their insecurities.

OP wants a commute under an hour, has a solid budget, and is looking for good schools. The fact that some of the best pyramids - those with a consistent record of student achievement- are being recommended shouldn’t surprise you. If you want to recommend some others, you ought to be able to do so without insinuating others are racist.

[Anonymous]

For 900 - 1M you can get a nice house in the Madison pyramid. It will be a little father out than Arlington but you will have more land. This was our budget and we bought in Vienna because we wanted a yard and a driveway. We couldn’t find anything in Arlington that we liked for this amount. We also looked at Falls Church (George Mason High) and McLean but liked Vienna better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So, according to the posters on this site, only 8 to 9 public high schools in Northern Virginia appear to be worthy of attending. Oh how FCPS has fallen. Should we just close the other schools and squeeze all of the students into those awesome and worthy buildings?

Why are the other schools so unworthy? FCPS provides excellent resources to all of its schools. I think many of the posters on here are not real keen on the student bodies at the other schools. Hence, the next round of segregation.

OP beware, many posters on here are trying to prop up their own decisions and/or soothe their insecurities.

OP wants a commute under an hour, has a solid budget, and is looking for good schools. The fact that some of the best pyramids - those with a consistent record of student achievement- are being recommended shouldn’t surprise you. If you want to recommend some others, you ought to be able to do so without insinuating others are racist.

I would recommend any high school in FCPS or APS. Excellent resources are provided to all of these schools and excellent students graduate from all of these schools. It so happens that the ones recommended on here most often are the whitest schools around. These recommendations just feed the self-fulfilling segregation monster that we see in FCPS now.

[Anonymous]

McLean and Langley schools

Prefer not centers where most students stay

Chesterbrook or Springhill elementary zoomed

[Anonymous]

I think the McLean or Marshall HS pyramids in FCPS or George Mason in FCC would be your best bets. Reasonable commutes and you won’t be priced out. All three are among the top 10 in the state.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So, according to the posters on this site, only 8 to 9 public high schools in Northern Virginia appear to be worthy of attending. Oh how FCPS has fallen. Should we just close the other schools and squeeze all of the students into those awesome and worthy buildings?

Why are the other schools so unworthy? FCPS provides excellent resources to all of its schools. I think many of the posters on here are not real keen on the student bodies at the other schools. Hence, the next round of segregation.

OP beware, many posters on here are trying to prop up their own decisions and/or soothe their insecurities.

Well, it's true people will post what they know--it's hard to know the schools and commute in a particular area. If their nearby schools fit the listed criteria, they will post it as an option. I would not say it's accurate that the schools mentioned are the "whitest" schools (they range from 40-60+% minoritized populations), but it is accurate they have relatively low number of economically disadvantaged students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think these questions are so strange. Who on VA public schools isn't looking for a good elementary, middle, and high school?

People looking for very good schools, I guess. But inagree: this post is bizarre.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So, according to the posters on this site, only 8 to 9 public high schools in Northern Virginia appear to be worthy of attending. Oh how FCPS has fallen. Should we just close the other schools and squeeze all of the students into those awesome and worthy buildings?

Why are the other schools so unworthy? FCPS provides excellent resources to all of its schools. I think many of the posters on here are not real keen on the student bodies at the other schools. Hence, the next round of segregation.

OP beware, many posters on here are trying to prop up their own decisions and/or soothe their insecurities.

OP wants a commute under an hour, has a solid budget, and is looking for good schools. The fact that some of the best pyramids - those with a consistent record of student achievement- are being recommended shouldn’t surprise you. If you want to recommend some others, you ought to be able to do so without insinuating others are racist.

Racist say what?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So, according to the posters on this site, only 8 to 9 public high schools in Northern Virginia appear to be worthy of attending. Oh how FCPS has fallen. Should we just close the other schools and squeeze all of the students into those awesome and worthy buildings?

Why are the other schools so unworthy? FCPS provides excellent resources to all of its schools. I think many of the posters on here are not real keen on the student bodies at the other schools. Hence, the next round of segregation.

OP beware, many posters on here are trying to prop up their own decisions and/or soothe their insecurities.

OP wants a commute under an hour, has a solid budget, and is looking for good schools. The fact that some of the best pyramids - those with a consistent record of student achievement- are being recommended shouldn’t surprise you. If you want to recommend some others, you ought to be able to do so without insinuating others are racist.

I would recommend any high school in FCPS or APS. Excellent resources are provided to all of these schools and excellent students graduate from all of these schools. It so happens that the ones recommended on here most often are the whitest schools around. These recommendations just feed the self-fulfilling segregation monster that we see in FCPS now.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So, according to the posters on this site, only 8 to 9 public high schools in Northern Virginia appear to be worthy of attending. Oh how FCPS has fallen. Should we just close the other schools and squeeze all of the students into those awesome and worthy buildings?

Why are the other schools so unworthy? FCPS provides excellent resources to all of its schools. I think many of the posters on here are not real keen on the student bodies at the other schools. Hence, the next round of segregation.

OP beware, many posters on here are trying to prop up their own decisions and/or soothe their insecurities.

OP wants a commute under an hour, has a solid budget, and is looking for good schools. The fact that some of the best pyramids - those with a consistent record of student achievement- are being recommended shouldn’t surprise you. If you want to recommend some others, you ought to be able to do so without insinuating others are racist.

I would recommend any high school in FCPS or APS. Excellent resources are provided to all of these schools and excellent students graduate from all of these schools. It so happens that the ones recommended on here most often are the whitest schools around. These recommendations just feed the self-fulfilling segregation monster that we see in FCPS now.

+1

-1. Doubt PP has experience with more than a few of those schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I highly recommend Falls Church City (Henderson, George Mason).
It’s a small school district with small class and fantastic schools.
You can definitely find a house in your price range and it’s highly walkable to it probably will be less of culture shock for you.

Agreed. Plus I believe you are guaranteed a spot in before-care and/or after-care if you work which is a huge plus.

We Lao just completed construction at the K-2 elementary school and there is a new high school that will be built starting in 2019.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So, according to the posters on this site, only 8 to 9 public high schools in Northern Virginia appear to be worthy of attending. Oh how FCPS has fallen. Should we just close the other schools and squeeze all of the students into those awesome and worthy buildings?

Why are the other schools so unworthy? FCPS provides excellent resources to all of its schools. I think many of the posters on here are not real keen on the student bodies at the other schools. Hence, the next round of segregation.

OP beware, many posters on here are trying to prop up their own decisions and/or soothe their insecurities.

OP wants a commute under an hour, has a solid budget, and is looking for good schools. The fact that some of the best pyramids - those with a consistent record of student achievement- are being recommended shouldn’t surprise you. If you want to recommend some others, you ought to be able to do so without insinuating others are racist.

I would recommend any high school in FCPS or APS. Excellent resources are provided to all of these schools and excellent students graduate from all of these schools. It so happens that the ones recommended on here most often are the whitest schools around. These recommendations just feed the self-fulfilling segregation monster that we see in FCPS now.

Okay.

I will bite.

OP, West Springfield HS and its feeders (Irving MS and any of the elementary schools) is a very solid choice.

It is solidly middle to upper middle class, fairly diverse and high achieving. Its minority groups consistently out perform similar minority groups at many other schools, with some of the groups (I think African American) performing on par with high achieving whites and asians. WSHS appears at least for now to have nearly eliminated the achievement gap

PP knows very little about many of the recommended schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I highly recommend Falls Church City (Henderson, George Mason).
It’s a small school district with small class and fantastic schools.
You can definitely find a house in your price range and it’s highly walkable to it probably will be less of culture shock for you.

Listen to this person.

You will get a decent commute to boot.

[Anonymous]

Where will you commute to in DC? The VRE is great for some parts. In any case, I recommend the Woodson or West Springfield pyramids.