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[quote=Anonymous]Kent Gardens is a STEM school that also offers French Immersion for those who can get in based on a lottery system.  For non FI kids, there is some exposure to French but by no means do kids attend this school just b/c of French.  Many parents there have no interest in French and they are not forced fed French.

Kent Gardens is transitioning into a school that will also offer LLIV (AAP services) starting Fall 2014.  The new principal at KG is, as someone said, the former assistant principal at Haycock and was the primary driver of their AAP program given her math background.  She was beloved at Haycock.  She's also credited with having helped start the AAP program at Spring Hill ES.  Her name is Holly McGuigan.

As someone mentioned above, KG has an extensive summer camp program where KG kids get first dibs at signing up.  In addition, KG offers STEM Saturdays during the regular school year.  This is a very science and engineering focused school, and lately, very focused on music and chorus also.  This McLean ES has had the largest student showing at all the local choral concerts in McLean including the McLean Winterfest and the McLean pyramid choral concert at McLean HS.

The new principal is very, extremely responsive and has turned the school around 180 degrees since starting mid fall 2013.  She's a great communicator and leader.  You'll find that KG is probably the most diverse school in McLean.

The only issue I see is large class sizes which most McLean schools have.  KG usually has an assistant teacher help out the main teacher.

With regard to Haycock, as someone said, it is an AAP center school.  Not long ago, there was a lot of heartache when rules were enacted to restrict AAP attendance at that school based on the feeder school.  It's undergoing a renovation to increase building size.  At most AAP center schools, the general ed kids get marginalized even if they're just as capable as AAP kids, but didn't screen into the program and it seems to be the case at Haycock.[/quote]

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