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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do you like EL Haynes best and are you aware of their different calendar?

SSMA just fired their principal and it is a hot mess.  I'd skip it if you aren't that into Montessori anyway.

You will not get Langdon Montessori out of boundary.

What do you see in Langley?[/quote]

For Haynes, my coworker has both of her kids there and her oldest had similar service needs as our son. She loves it, and I value her opinion. I also like the experiential model as I really appreciated an interdisciplinary program I did in college, which is similar. The arts integration is also appealing. I also like that it goes through high school if we want the option and the extended year appeals to me for less summer creep chances and for more consistent therapy schedules.

I honestly don’t know much about Langley beyond I hear parents talking about it on the boards and it is relatively convenient. I know the least about it on the list, though [/quote]

I would recommend doing more research on Langley -- they have very low scores (and just received 1 out of 5 stars according to the new ratings). There are many DCPS schools in the neighborhoods you listed that have at least 3/5 stars.[/quote]

I think Langley could be a good pick.  I went to the Open House last month and was surprised at how much I liked it.  [b]These stars are based on only one year of test scores and an arbitrary weighting system.[/b]

Langley has a biggish special needs program and as such gets a dedicated program manager, who I met, and also has full-time speech and OT staff.  If the OP wants to keep PK3 as an option even with a bad lottery number, it is probably the right pick for #12.[/quote]

The weighting is not "arbitrary" -- it is based on federal criteria and the district's priorities. Further, it's applied equally to every school, in the same way, and uses growth and proficiency, which has been tracked for several years by DCPS. Langley's PARCC scores have gone down the last 3 years, especially math.

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The federal criteria are arbitrary.  Also, a lot of DCPS schools don't have a statistically significant testing population.  [/quote]

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