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[quote=Anonymous]I had 2 kids at Mason.  They are now 7 and 9th grades.

My older stayed till 5th my younger stayed till 4th.  Her 4th was Covid year.  Both enrolled and thriving in private.

I'll tell you why we moved.  The neighborhood is amazing so enjoy it!  The prob is academics.  If your kid is "perfect" in that they have no learning disabilities and are 100% focused and socially and mentally not just ok but really well adjusted as in maybe top 5% of society, your experience in public incl Mason and through ACPS will be just fine.  This is a neighborhood of amazing parents and very safe as well.  The parents are typically not helicopter ones who go to Mason.  We have many friends whose kids are thriving at public MS out of Mason.

So here's the rub: if your kid is not 100% well rounded and "perfect" you need to consider other schools.  Mason until about 4th is no prob.  After that it gets dicey.  Our older one was never flagged for dyslexia nor ADHD until after he left and we confirmed our suspicions.  Not one teacher at Mason could tell us they saw anything and his case is really severe.  In terms of teachers. The good ones who my kids loved would leave after 2 yrs.  They knew.

I would say that it's been a few yrs and I know Mason redistricting pulled many to Barrett and Mason lost some of their polish I think. Cause it was less and less students and attention there.  Barrett in my opinion is stronger than Mason.  I hated the head of school at Mason.

With a lot of upcoming changes perhaps Mason will be better than ever.  When your kids are young it's really hard to say what a good fit is.  I would personally not struggle with elementary until 4/5th grades however.  You need time to see how your kid develops and things are always changing in life so it's hard to tell how Mason will evolve in a span of 5 years no matter what happens.  I think the neighborhood will prevent it from ever being a trashy school.  How good a for it is for your family is another story.

There is no good support for learning disabilities however in ACPS that's a certainty.  MS would have pulled support for my kid as long as they had a C grade or above.  Anytime he's under that grade he gets help but at a C, he would not get any help.  It's 500 kids per grade at the MS so you can figure out how life goes with your imagination.  I reiterate that it's fine if your kid is perfect but otherwise I know families who left public desperately seeking options after 6th as it was so bad.[/quote]

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