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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As PP mentioned, if you plan to stay for HS I would pick the one that feeds into the HS you are most interested in. Wakefield continues Spanish immersion, WL offers IB, and Yorktown is just a regular high school. All three offer AP classes. Yorktown is least diverse, most affluent. Wakefield is most diverse, least affluent. WL in between and the most overcrowded. [/quote]

DP - I would add to clarify that most of Wakefield is not immersion.  It's a neighborhood school that houses the Spanish immersion high school program; but that program is a small % of students.  Wakefield also has the AP Capstone program.

Similarly, W-L is not a full IB school.  It also is a neighborhood school that includes the IB program (Arlington doesn't have  a full IB program in the way that IB is typically designed and broken out across the middle and secondary years.  Students can apply to transfer in to W-L only if they participate full-time in the IB program leading to the IB diploma.  If they do not take the required classes as a freshman or sophomore, or even as a junior, they are supposed to be sent back to their designated neighborhood school.)

Yorktown does not have a "niche" program.

Arlington Tech is another secondary option program that is project-based learning.  It is very small; but very worth looking into to see if your child  would be interested.  You apply as a rising 9th grader and students come from across the County.  If you don't get in, you simply remain at your neighborhood school.  HB Woodlawn is another program that is very difficult to get into at the 9th grade level - only about 25 slots open.  Also a countywide program, with specific # of seats designated from each middle school.

Thank you to PP for providing objective answers to OP's question, not making the usual biased/stereoptyped comments regarding each school.  Such a refreshing anomaly in Arlington and on this forum.

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