Arlington Science Focus vs Innovation (former Key)

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Anonymous wrote:Innovation has been just under the numbers needed to get Title I funding. So, many students and families are in great need but the school does not have the resources needed to provide additional support. Also, almost all of the specials teachers left one year and that is not a good sign - because they teach the entire school, they have an overall sense of it has a whole.

All but one of the specials teachers left ASFS this past summer because of the administration and lack of support. Sad because those teachers had been there for a while. I hear most left for Fairfax and did not stay in APS.

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Anonymous wrote:If you like old school and a stricter environment, choose ASFS. No one can tell you what the new school is going to be like, other than it will likely be less intense. My kids went through ASFS, and I have an odd view. My kids didn’t love it, but they got a very good grounding there that once they got to middle school they lost. They are happier in MS, but they’re not learning as much.

This may have been true before but not true anymore. The previous principal left and so did many of the teachers. It’s an example of an Arlington school that quickly went downhill

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Anonymous wrote:If you like old school and a stricter environment, choose ASFS. No one can tell you what the new school is going to be like, other than it will likely be less intense. My kids went through ASFS, and I have an odd view. My kids didn’t love it, but they got a very good grounding there that once they got to middle school they lost. They are happier in MS, but they’re not learning as much.

This may have been true before but not true anymore. The previous principal left and so did many of the teachers. It’s an example of an Arlington school that quickly went downhill

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Anonymous wrote:Guessing that Innovation will end up as a solid above-average school. If it’s true that LV houses zoned for Innovation are sitting longer …. we’ll, that’s just classic.

C’mon. There is a ton of talk about how Innovation could be one of the highest FARMS rates in the county, definitely NA. Diversity is great, but a high need Title 1 school gives people pause in a shrinking school budget environment. Programs and resources are limited, and rightfully they will not neglect the high need kid, but your bright at grade level kid will just coast thru with little attention.

Highest FARMS rate why? New affordable housing in Rosslyn?

Partly yes. But basically ASFS was 20% FARMS and it mostly came from the now Innovation boundary. So if you half the school size, it’s at least 40% FARMS right there before the Queens affordable housing build.

There is so much poverty and so much volume. How will APS absorb all of this?where is this Queens building going?who middle and high are these new buildings?

On top of that, with pandemic, likely many families of means have moved out of townhouses and apartments since commutes don’t matter and space is way more valued.

I think a 50% FARMS rate is easily in the cards. Either way almost certainly Title 1, which will drag down housing values.

They intentionally left Woodbury Park at ASFS to help balance the FARMS rate, so that should be a wash with Queen's Court. New developments will have an impact, though. Longer term probably 40-50%.

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Anonymous wrote:Guessing that Innovation will end up as a solid above-average school. If it’s true that LV houses zoned for Innovation are sitting longer …. we’ll, that’s just classic.

C’mon. There is a ton of talk about how Innovation could be one of the highest FARMS rates in the county, definitely NA. Diversity is great, but a high need Title 1 school gives people pause in a shrinking school budget environment. Programs and resources are limited, and rightfully they will not neglect the high need kid, but your bright at grade level kid will just coast thru with little attention.

Highest FARMS rate why? New affordable housing in Rosslyn?

Partly yes. But basically ASFS was 20% FARMS and it mostly came from the now Innovation boundary. So if you half the school size, it’s at least 40% FARMS right there before the Queens affordable housing build.

There is so much poverty and so much volume. How will APS absorb all of this?where is this Queens building going?who middle and high are these new buildings?

On top of that, with pandemic, likely many families of means have moved out of townhouses and apartments since commutes don’t matter and space is way more valued.

I think a 50% FARMS rate is easily in the cards. Either way almost certainly Title 1, which will drag down housing values.

They intentionally left Woodbury Park at ASFS to help balance the FARMS rate, so that should be a wash with Queen's Court. New developments will have an impact, though. Longer term probably 40-50%.

They built a new affordable housing building at the american legion building site, so that has changed the ASFS FARMS rate too.