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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why is Lake Braddock better than Annandale? Is Robert E Lee better or worse? What about Edison or Hayfield?[/quote]

The party line evaluates schools based on test scores and demographics.  Lake Braddock has higher test scores and fewer low-income kids than Annandale.  Over the past decade, FCPS moved a lot of the more stable single-family neighborhoods assigned to Annandale to other schools.  So Columbia Pines got moved to Falls Church, Ravensworth got moved to Lake Braddock, Wakefield Forest got moved to Woodson, and Edsall Park got moved to Edison.  There are still some nice areas zoned for Annandale, but a high percentage of the kids there now live in low-income apartments that are either just inside the Beltway in Annandale or near Landmark.  In comparison, Lake Braddock pulls mostly from single-family neighborhoods and townhouses in Burke and West Springfield.

Lee is similar to Annandale, the main difference being that it pulls from fewer apartment complexes and more run-down single-family neighborhoods, along with nicer areas like Saratoga and Daventry.  Edison and Hayfield are considered more desirable than Annandale and Lee now, but still several notches below Lake Braddock.  The big Kingstowne development in Alexandria splits between those schools.   Edison is an IB high school; Hayfield is an AP secondary school.[/quote]

This. We are in one of the nicer single family home areas zoned for Annandale HS (Pinecrest), and I love our neighborhood, and it is great for me, my husband and our (very young) kids for now, but I don't know what are are going to do when they get older. We moved here before we had kids.

Some of the apartment complexes zoned for Annandale are seriously decrepit and disgusting. I really don't know what the county thought would happen by rezoning so many nicer neighborhoods away from Annandale. [/quote]

People seem pretty positive on both Columbia ES and Holmes MS, so you should be good for some time.  I wouldn't be surprised if, st some point, FCPS claws back some of the neighborhoods that it's moved out of Annandale.[/quote]

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