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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Three years ago, Viers Mill had universal free lunch for one year. That is why they have greater than 95% for "now or in the past" FARMs. Literally every kid (including the PEP classes for 3yos, meaning some current K) who was there in the 2023-24 school year is counted in the percentage.

I've been a VM parent for 10 years. Nobody I've heard from here wants to go to WJ. For many reasons. VM families have been happy mostly with Wheaton/DCC, and most people seem reasonably okay with Woodward.

The VM community is super tight and protective. Maybe it feels like WJ is racist/classist/whatever, but mostly I think it's that those feeder schools operate in completely different worlds.[/quote]

A question for you and other VM posters. I don't know anything about VM. When I want to learn about a school I go to SchoolDigger to see their ranking and performance on tests. 20 years ago VM was one of the top ES in the state. For the last 5-10 years, the school has been dropping on tests like a rock, hitting an all-time low last year and is currently ranked 595th in the state. What changed in recent years?[/quote]

In those 5-10 years the CES program changed so that the top kids from every school are in a lottery for those spots. When you pull out the top performers in grades 4-5, it changes a school. Despite that, my kid who stayed in the lottery for CES has 90th plus percentile scores on MAP tests and made both MS magnet lotteries (with a spot in one already). The teachers and admin are amazing. Far superior to the MS and HS experiences of our older kids. My kid, who is a native English speaker, has made a ton of growth and loves school due to their efforts.

We’ve also seen our neighborhoods gentrify with lots of houses rebuilt or renovated post pandemic. A lot of original owners replaced by DINKs. Yes there are still ADUs and some houses with multiple families, but that’s because MoCo decided where these should be allowed. The huge yards in Potomac apparently are too good for ADUs, but Silver Spring homes that look like a large Lego brick quality. 
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