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[quote=Anonymous]We were zoned for this pyramid and moved. (My kids are only 6...)

Look at the feeder schools.  Our elementary school (Mount Vernon Woods) had a FARMS rate of over 80% and an ESL rate of 54%.  That's a pretty high concentration of poverty.  Riverside is high as well - 65% FARMS and almost 40% ESL.  As you look through the feeder schools, you'll see there's a pretty big disparity between schools like Mount Vernon Woods and Fort Belvoir.

You can see them all here - it's the Mount Vernon pyramid: http://commweb.fcps.edu/directory/bypyramid.cfm

My personal experience at Mount Vernon Woods was, on the whole, quite good.  From what I've heard about MVHS, if you're a kid that wanted to excel you had lots of opportunity to do so.  However, the school has challenges that others don't have to face due to poverty and other factors.  We left primarily to get purchase a house and to move schools.  I couldn't afford a house in the better districts of Fairfax County, so I moved to a place where I could have both.

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