That wasn’t my point, though I wasn’t clear, maybe mixing up this thread and the option school one. My point is that many of the kids there continue on high performing schools. |
ATS students get to choose where they attend MS and HS? (And Hamm/Williamsburg may be *higher* performing than, say, Gunston, but again, that isn’t saying much.) What you’re saying may have been true in the past, but since residency checks started, Gunston became much less crowded. Fewer transfers happening now than in the past. |
No, they go to their zoned middle schools |
Exactly. Though some have been able to take advantage of transfers in the past (like when Gunston was overcrowded). Not the case now! |
Just read the comment boasting how APS uses Core Knowledge. If only top private schools could access this same curriculum!!! 😂😂😂 |
ATS uses core knowledge and it has its own early elementary curriculum it has used for years. I love what my kids are learning and the habits they have built at ATS. |
LOL |
Actually there were some transfers available this year |
Some, but not as many. Ask me how I know. (Anyone else have two kids in two different middle schools next year?! 😭) |
ya'll funny |
I heard the Obamas settled on Sidwell for their girls when they didn’t get into ATS. |
I love you. |
The ATS kids who are seniors in high school this year were pretty evenly spread around the middle schools, except for Gunston. I remember that a number of the girls actively chose Kenmore for STEAM over Williamsburg and Swanson because those schools were really overcrowded at the time (Hamm opened their 8th grade year). The vast majority are at W-L or Yorktown now. I know ATS kids going to the following colleges:
UVA Vt Tech JMU William and Mary Bowdoin Boston University Georgetown University CNU Duke Pitt UMiami Fordham Colgate Indiana McGill Chicago Curtis Institute of Music |
Not a single Ivy. And their non-ATS-educated peers are attending these same schools. |
And Swanson didn't exist. |