Feedback on Brookfield Elementary School, Chantilly

[Anonymous]

Any feedback on Brookfield Elementary School in the Chantilly region. Its rated a 4. Another question is are there a lot of low income kids in the school - is that why its called a Title 1 school. Any feedback appreciated.

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

Title 1 = low income. 4 is a low rating. Look elsewhere

[Anonymous]

Yep, lots of brown kids and lots of free lunches. Unless you want your kids around that sort of riff raff, I’d stay away.

[Anonymous]

We live somewhat nearby and our neighborhood school is a 5. We are really happy with it and turned down the AAP center for our oldest.

In this area the great schools number is purely a function of how many FARM or ESOL kids happen to be zoned for the school. A school with a SN center located within the school could lower the score as well. Brookfield is 50% FARMs -there are some inexpensive apartment buildings in its boundary so the 4 makes sense.

[Anonymous]

I believe Greenbriar East and Greenbriar West are better options

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We live somewhat nearby and our neighborhood school is a 5. We are really happy with it and turned down the AAP center for our oldest.

In this area the great schools number is purely a function of how many FARM or ESOL kids happen to be zoned for the school. A school with a SN center located within the school could lower the score as well. Brookfield is 50% FARMs -there are some inexpensive apartment buildings in its boundary so the 4 makes sense.

DP with a very similar experience. Neighborhood school is a 5 and we didn't send our kid to the AAP center because we're happy where we are. I do have one friend whose kids go to Brookfield; she's a former FCPS teacher and is very happy with the school.