Does cooper middle school zone AAP kids have a choice to Long Fellow?

[Anonymous]

We are in the area. I learned that Cooper Middle is a AAP center, I wonder if kids still have a choice to LongFellow as well. From what I read, each year only a few Cooper kids were accepted into TJ. What’s the main reason? Most families are not interested in TJ or kids are not competitive enough? Thanks

[Anonymous]

No, Cooper kids stay at Cooper now. I think the current 8th grade is the class that did not have a choice for Longfellow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No, Cooper kids stay at Cooper now. I think the current 8th grade is the class that did not have a choice for Longfellow.

Besides, the much lauded Algebra teacher is long gone from Longfellow too.

[Anonymous]

No choice to go to LMS anymore. The current 10th graders were the last ones who had a choice.

[Anonymous]

I read that last year there were 51 Longfellow kids and 36 Cooper kids admitted to TJ. 2018-19 was the first year almost all the AAP kids in the Langley pyramid went to Cooper, rather than Kilmer and Longfellow.

[Anonymous]

The reason that Cooper used to not have more kids being admitted to TJ was that it used to not be an AAP center. Now that the kids in AAP are staying at Cooper, Cooper will start having more kids getting into TJ. They will build up more extracurriculars that compete over time. Soon the numbers will be about equal.

[Anonymous]

When you consider that Longfellow is all McLean HS kids and Cooper is all Langley HS kids, those schools do fine. Carson has the most admitted students, but it’s a mega-AAP center with kids whose base high schools are Chantilly HS, Oakton HS, South Lakes HS and Westfield HS.

[Anonymous]

when did this change happen ? As in AAP Copper kids at Cooper and not at Longfellow. I was looking at the enrollment rate and not just the accepted numbers and year over year it was highest for Longfellow among all middle schools.

Sorry we are relocating to the area and house hunting and have an AAP kid. What makes Longfellow so special ? TIA

[Anonymous]

Longfellow just has the cache of having been the AAP center for a long time-it’s a well oiled machine that gets a lot of smart AAP kids from Haycock ES, also a strong AAP center. It’s extracurriculars are well established and competitive. Cooper will get to the same point over the next 5 years, esp once they get their new facilities after the renovation.

[pettifogger]

Anonymous wrote:when did this change happen ? As in AAP Copper kids at Cooper and not at Longfellow. I was looking at the enrollment rate and not just the accepted numbers and year over year it was highest for Longfellow among all middle schools.

Sorry we are relocating to the area and house hunting and have an AAP kid. What makes Longfellow so special ? TIA

Longfellow has had an extremely strong math team for many years, on par with some of the top middle school math teams in the country, even rivaling many great magnet middle schools. It also had Vern Williams who I believe spearheaded it, (he's no longer there).

[Anonymous]

pettifogger wrote:

Anonymous wrote:when did this change happen ? As in AAP Copper kids at Cooper and not at Longfellow. I was looking at the enrollment rate and not just the accepted numbers and year over year it was highest for Longfellow among all middle schools.

Sorry we are relocating to the area and house hunting and have an AAP kid. What makes Longfellow so special ? TIA

Longfellow has had an extremely strong math team for many years, on par with some of the top middle school math teams in the country, even rivaling many great magnet middle schools. It also had Vern Williams who I believe spearheaded it, (he's no longer there).

This is correct. Vern Williams left Longfellow several years ago to join the staff at BASIS in Tysons.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:when did this change happen ? As in AAP Copper kids at Cooper and not at Longfellow. I was looking at the enrollment rate and not just the accepted numbers and year over year it was highest for Longfellow among all middle schools.

Sorry we are relocating to the area and house hunting and have an AAP kid. What makes Longfellow so special ? TIA

Cooper became its own center in 2016 or 2017, I believe.