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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Both of these schools have a good peer group as do most schools in the area.  Buy a house where you want to live..  Your kids are 10 years from high school, there is no guarantee that anything about these schools will be the same when they are looking to attend.[/quote]

When we moved 10 years ago, QO was a great school so we intentionally stayed in-bounds once we left the Kentlands. However, it now is very sports oriented (much more so than academic) as another person noted. FARMs has gone up to 30% which brings its own challenges, but test scores certainly haven’t been improving and chronic absenteeism is a problem. For the average student, Quince Orchard will be fine. One of my kids at Qo simply isn’t challenged academically and doesn’t have many peers who are as motivated as him like you’ll find at the W schools. Other kid, average academics, is doing just fine. Most teachers are good, admin seems to be preoccupied with sports and reducing inequities (which they haven’t done a good job of) while high achievers are left in the dark, taking dumbed down AP courses. The push for AP is WAY too much, it becomes as though “everyone take AP,” which diminishes rigor and ultimately AP scores[/quote]

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