Are you a Chesterbrook parent? Can you offer feedback please?

[Anonymous]

Our child is soon going to enter Chesterbrook and I am looking for parental feedback - it seems like our immediate neighbors send their kids to private school.
Are you satisfied with the level of education your child is getting there? I heard they recently got a new Principal, are things running smoothly?
This is a new experience for us, we are new to the country and to McLean and just trying to access the level of satisfaction of parents with quality of the school, quality of teachers, sense of community, etc.
Our child is a happy kid and make friends easily. We heard great things about Chesterbrook but have not yet met anyone who has children there.
Thank you very much.

[Anonymous]

We have friends with kids there who are quite happy. As elementary schools go in FCPS, it’s mid-size. The academics are strong (most of the kids who qualify to attend the Haycock AAP center stay at Chesterbrook instead). There is a bit of exposure to Chinese as well - nothing like immersion, but enough to prime kids who want to take Chinese I at Longfellow. There isn’t much economic diversity; unlike some of the other McLean elementary schools, it draws entirely from neighborhoods of single-family homes. But it feeds into Longfellow MS and McLean HS, which are more diverse than the schools in the other McLean pyramid (Cooper/Langley).

[Anonymous]

Thank you so much for your feedback! I appreciate it!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have friends with kids there who are quite happy. As elementary schools go in FCPS, it’s mid-size. The academics are strong (most of the kids who qualify to attend the Haycock AAP center stay at Chesterbrook instead). There is a bit of exposure to Chinese as well - nothing like immersion, but enough to prime kids who want to take Chinese I at Longfellow. There isn’t much economic diversity; unlike some of the other McLean elementary schools, it draws entirely from neighborhoods of single-family homes. But it feeds into Longfellow MS and McLean HS, which are more diverse than the schools in the other McLean pyramid (Cooper/Langley).

Are you sure about this? There are a small cluster of town homes on Kirby Road just before the intersection of Kirby Road and Westmoreland Street. Those town homes are about 0.5 mile from Chesterbrook ES. Which ES do the kids in those town homes attend, if not Chesterbrook ES? Haycock or Kent Gardens?

Once you pass the intersection of Kirby and Old Dominion going toward Dolley Madison, it is the "richer" part of Mclean, mostly bigger and newer homes on a bigger lot. Most folks there send their kids to private schools such as Madeira, Little Langley, Sidwell or Potomac. I am one of those guilty one

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We have friends with kids there who are quite happy. As elementary schools go in FCPS, it’s mid-size. The academics are strong (most of the kids who qualify to attend the Haycock AAP center stay at Chesterbrook instead). There is a bit of exposure to Chinese as well - nothing like immersion, but enough to prime kids who want to take Chinese I at Longfellow. There isn’t much economic diversity; unlike some of the other McLean elementary schools, it draws entirely from neighborhoods of single-family homes. But it feeds into Longfellow MS and McLean HS, which are more diverse than the schools in the other McLean pyramid (Cooper/Langley).

Are you sure about this? There are a small cluster of town homes on Kirby Road just before the intersection of Kirby Road and Westmoreland Street. Those town homes are about 0.5 mile from Chesterbrook ES. Which ES do the kids in those town homes attend, if not Chesterbrook ES? Haycock or Kent Gardens?

Once you pass the intersection of Kirby and Old Dominion going toward Dolley Madison, it is the "richer" part of Mclean, mostly bigger and newer homes on a bigger lot. Most folks there send their kids to private schools such as Madeira, Little Langley, Sidwell or Potomac. I am one of those guilty one

Haycock.

Most people zoned for Chesterbrook send their kids to the public schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We have friends with kids there who are quite happy. As elementary schools go in FCPS, it’s mid-size. The academics are strong (most of the kids who qualify to attend the Haycock AAP center stay at Chesterbrook instead). There is a bit of exposure to Chinese as well - nothing like immersion, but enough to prime kids who want to take Chinese I at Longfellow. There isn’t much economic diversity; unlike some of the other McLean elementary schools, it draws entirely from neighborhoods of single-family homes. But it feeds into Longfellow MS and McLean HS, which are more diverse than the schools in the other McLean pyramid (Cooper/Langley).

Are you sure about this? There are a small cluster of town homes on Kirby Road just before the intersection of Kirby Road and Westmoreland Street. Those town homes are about 0.5 mile from Chesterbrook ES. Which ES do the kids in those town homes attend, if not Chesterbrook ES? Haycock or Kent Gardens?

Once you pass the intersection of Kirby and Old Dominion going toward Dolley Madison, it is the "richer" part of Mclean, mostly bigger and newer homes on a bigger lot. Most folks there send their kids to private schools such as Madeira, Little Langley, Sidwell or Potomac. I am one of those guilty one

Potomac Hills is back in there and sends tons of kids to Chesterbook. Same for Chesterbrook Woods. I think you are only talking about the houses along Kirby.

The Chesterbrook line along Kirby the other way ends at Powhatten on that side and Barbie on the other. Those townhouses are in Haycock's district.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: Those townhouses are in Haycock's district.

Not only that, but how do those townhouses qualify as "economic diversity?" The Mayfair ones cost damn near a million dollars, and I think the development next to it is still in the $700,000 range. That doesn't match my definition.