Base Schools Sending Most Students to TJ
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Anonymous
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Per recently released FCPS data, the 10 base high schools that see the most transfers of students to TJHSST are:
Langley (172) McLean (161) Oakton (153) Chantilly (136) Westfield (97) South Lakes (84) Woodson (79) Madison (64) Marshall (58) Centreville (52) |
Anonymous
Don't most students go to TJ from 8th grade. |
Anonymous
Yes. These particular reports focus on the base HS of the students, rather than the middle schools they were attending when admitted. |
Anonymous
These are HS the student would have attened if they were not attending TJ, plus it is for all four years, you have to divide by four to get an annual average. |
Anonymous
| but take Carson. Sends more kids than any MS. But Carson kids can go to Oakton, South Lakes, Westfield or Chantilly - so the HS statistics are misleading. |
Anonymous
They are not misleading, although they could certainly be misinterpreted. One could just as easily claim it's "misleading" to note that Carson is the biggest feeder, because kids zoned for more schools are assigned to the Carson AAP center than is the case at, say, Frost or Longfellow. But that's not "misleading," either. It's just a fact. |
Anonymous
| I would love to see it by base elementary school. |
Anonymous
Yes. And then by race. |
Anonymous
? C’mon. About 60% Asian. Maybe 30% white. |
Anonymous
These reports don't get into that level of detail. Their intent isn't to track TJ "feeders" but to identify transfers that affect enrollment. So, for example, Langley's enrollment takes a big hit because over 10% of the public HS students in the Langley district are at TJ or another school instead. Conversely, over 14% of the enrollment at Marshall, which was just renovated but is now already over-capacity, consists of out-of-boundary students, most transferring for IB. The data provides some insight, however, as to the areas in the county that send the most students to TJ. |
Anonymous
But they don’t go from HS to TJ. They go from MS to TJ. |
Anonymous
| Op says transfers, but that's wrong? It has to be by yhe number of students. |
Anonymous
FCPS characterizes it as "transfers" in these reports even if the students never attended their assigned base HS. |
Anonymous
That's true, but they still live in another school pyramid. |
Anonymous
| Langley isn't any more special because a lot of it's base school kids go to TJ. These are mostly kids who do not spend a single instructional day in Langley. It has to do with the feeder system. As a PP pointed out, Carson splits pretty evenly between 4 HSs. If all of the Carson kids going to TJ fed to the same HS, that HS would have more the twice the transfers out to TJ that Langley has (80-90 kids a year x 4 years). So this list is meaningless. |