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[quote=Anonymous]Math options situation is the same at TJMS as Arlington wide.  What's unique about Jefferson?

*School uses the indoor track they share with the city rec center in the same building for PE. 
*School has an unusually nice auditorium/stage, again shared with city.
*School offers more languages than the other APS middle schools, and from 6th grade Arabic, Chinese, Spanish, French, ASL, Russian and German on demand on-line.  Unusually advanced students can have their own on-line classes in 8th grade in any of these languages.
*8th grade geography for all in 8th grade due to IB Middle Years curriculum, students can take advanced geog for HS credit.
*Particularly good band, chorus and orchestra due to strong music director, "Ms. T."

Yes, more poor kids than several of the AP neighborhood middle schools but good discipline and stable teaching force manage the poor kids well enough for us.  Only around 1/4 of the student at Jefferson are zoned for Washington-Liberty, but the group includes many high performers academically.  Moreover, other strong students often try to lottery/test into IB studies at W-L.  In a nutshell, the IBD program at W-L keeps a good cohort of strong TJMS students together for HS.[/quote]

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