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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The DCUM crowd will laugh, but it's positive that Stuart went from a 2 to a 3.  One of Karen Garza's best moves was to load up the school (and Glasgow) with some of the best administrators in FCPS.  [/quote]

Agree[/quote]

That area has a great commute downtown and some nice housing stock. There is better potential for Stuart than some of the other underperformers. If they can get it up to a 4, millenials will do the rest.[/quote]

I see strong potential for improvement in all the closer-in schools if they can hold it together.  Those shorter commutes are just too attractive.[/quote]

I would put the potential for improvement in this order:

Falls Church - multiple strong ES feeders (Fairhill, Camelot, Mason Crest); one of two MS is a strong AAP center (Jackson), and good location

Wakefield - nicest facility of the bunch and continued gentrification of South Arlington, but risk of more subsidized low-income housing

Stuart - has the nicest single-family neighborhoods of the closer-in lower-ranked schools, but also a large low-income, Hispanic population in the pipeline for another decade

Edison - recently renovated building and some nice feeder schools and neighborhoods, but a less desirable location

Annandale - proud tradition, but hurt by repeated redistrictings of single-family neighboroods out of AHS and FCPS's decision to turn Poe MS into the highest FARMS MS in the county

TC Williams - many people move to Alexandria with an expectation they will do private, and it's hard to shake the "Yail or Jail" reputation

Lee - saddled with large pupil placements to AP schools, plus no one with a choice really wants to live in central Springfield [/quote]

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