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[quote=Anonymous]Please don't focus on Great Schools ratings so much. DCUM posters tend to focus on them and on every little shift. It's ridiculous. It's ONE rating and though people will come on here and yap about how "It matters because it affects housing values, realtors use it," blah blah....it's much better to find out about the school from people with kids there. I know you're just moving in and don't necessarily know parents in the area, but almost any school in FCPS is better than every school in some parts of the country--many parts of the country, in fact.

Our godson went to Oakton ES and Jackson MS (not AAP) and did fine and had good experiences and good teachers at both and was well prepared for high school. Our child went to another ES but attended the AAP center at Jackson MS and had an excellent experience and also was well prepared for HS.

If your kid is elementary and fairly young, go ahead and start at Oakton ES and then you can judge how it works for your child and learn more about Jackson. If you're in an apartment and your child isn't, say, sixth grade next year, you'll have time to move if you decide Oakton/Jackson aren't for you after all. But I would not hesitate to send a kid to either. You have time to learn more. Don't let Great Schools influence you unduly.
(FYI, if you're new to the area -- AAP means Advanced Academics Program; it's the FCPS version of what used to be called "gifted and talented")[/quote]

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