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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'd check with Kilmer, but your kid would likely be better off at Cooper if that is your base school.  Smart kids, more space and [b]he/she will likely go to high school with most of these kids as opposed to none of the classmates he/she will have at Kilmer[/b][i].[/quote]

Not sure why you'd think that. [b] More than half of the AAP students at Kilmer have Cooper as their base school.  These students also go to Langley unless they get into TJ or pupil place to an IB school. [/b] In addition, the closest IB school for the Cooper students who go to Kilmer, rather than Longfellow, is South Lakes, not Marshall, so that's another incentive to go to Langley (I'm not dumping on South Lakes, but Kilmer kids would not know many students there). [/quote]

Yes, but the majority of kids who go to Kilmer go on to Madison or Marshall.  It may be about the little AAP club for parents, but kids change when they become teenagers and a very large chunk of the AAP kids will tell you that they wish they had more classes with non-AAP kids who often seem to be more interesting.  Teenage years are all about exploration and if you think your AAP kid is going to have nothing but AAP friends for the rest of his/her time in FCPS you are kidding yourself.

Also keep in mind that the plan is to eventually have all Cooper AAP kids stay at Cooper.    
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I guess it boils down to whether you see more benefit in having classes with non-AAP kids in MS than being in AAP classes.  Whatever the future plans are for Cooper, it doesn't have an AAP center yet.  If a kid in the Langley pyramid goes to the Kilmer AAP center, he or she will have plenty of middle-school peers who are also going to Langley.   [/quote]

Not sure the above statement is accurate any longer, according to what I heard at Cooper's information session.  They don't have the AAP official label, but they're essentially running a center.  http://www.fcps.edu/CooperMS/Advanced%20Academics/Cooper's_LevelIV_Program.html[/quote]

Dunno.  Statistics for 2013-14 included in a November 10th presentation to the School Board indicated that 50% of the AAP kids at Kilmer had Cooper as their base school, more than had Kilmer as their base school.  The enrollment statistics for this year that are publicly available don't identify any kids at Cooper as receiving AAP services, but maybe they aren't tracking it yet.[/quote]

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