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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC is currently in K at WSES.  There are 20 children in the class.  All three K teachers are super stars and have been teaching 20+ years.  I have children in the higher grades as well.  No homework, just focus on reading and reading comprehension.   New principal who is wonderful.  The school is small, maybe less than 500 kids.  Great community and amazing SACC staff.  Everyone is very friendly and helpful.  A lot of military families but also permanent residents as well.  I commute to DC every day as do my neighbors. Agree with PP that it's tough to get a house although there are quite a few rentals due to popularity among military families.  I have a lot of friends who have moved here or are trying to get in.  We had no idea before we settled here and got lucky.  Extremely low pressure at school.  [b]I would think scores drop because the super smart kids move on to the 'gifted' center after second grade.[/b]  I do know a few families who returned to WSES.  Principal is focusing on pull out for center eligible kids.  We also just raised money for a state of the art STEAM Lab next year.  Highly recommend WSES.  They have a kindergarten play date in August for all incoming.  It's a great school and great community.[/quote]

Hi!  Thank you (and everyone else who responded) for the extremely informative replies.  I feel pretty good about both choices.  Now we just need to find a good place to live.  I am a little confused about the bolded part.  I was under the impression that both WFES and WSES had the AAP programs in the school.  Am I wrong about this?  If so, where do the AAP kids wind up going?  It's obviously too soon to tell whether my 5 year old will be in AAP, but it's not beyond the realm of possibility, so I'd like to know.

Thanks![/quote]

The transfer report for AAP is here:

http://151.188.217.200/fts_drupal_support/dashboard/region1-5aaptransferreport.pdf

You can view how many students for each grade opted to attend the AAP Center school (vs. stay at the base school) as of September 2016).

West Springfield Elementary -&gt; Keene Mill
3rd grade: 4
4th grade: 9
5th grade: 10
6th grade: 13

Wakefield Forest Elementary -&gt; Canterbury Woods
3rd grade: 17
4th grade: 10
5th grade: 8
6th grade: 12
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