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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is entirely school dependant.  If your base school has a large component of high net worth families, your experience will be good either way.  In this case, make your decision based on non-education factors such as sibling placement, logistics, friend preference, etc... Your child will have appropriately motivated peers and education standards.

If there is a high representation of low wealth families, then the education elements come to play.  The center will offer more advantages in terms of higher quantity of peers, more LIV teachers and classes (they can benchmark each other), experience, after school activities, potentially a more involved PTA, etc...

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I agree that specific schools matter. Our base school has very high SES but academics are not a strong focus. In general, families seem to value social dynamics and extracurriculars like sports more than academics. Older child is at the center school which has a very strong AAP program with very experienced faculty who provide additional enrichment in the classroom beyond the standard AAP curriculum. The peer group is markedly different between our center and base schools in terms of academic motivation. It is worth the minor logistical inconvenience of our kids being at different schools for now. Younger one is still at the base school. We might have considered staying at the base school if it offered additional programs like language immersion or if the pyramid was different between base and center. Neither are relevant to our situation. The center school has been an excellent experience. So much so that we would enroll our younger child in the center if they were selected for full-time AAP. Also, if the base school uses a cluster model, then it cannot practically be a true full-time experience despite what FCPS says. The teacher would be juggling too many levels of differentiation and the focus would likely be on the students who are below grade level. Even high SES schools have kids who are below grade level.[/quote]

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