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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hello, neighbor! :)

We faced the same decision when our kid placed into AAP level 4. DC had friends at Westgate, and we were comfortable there. But we switched the kid to Lemon Road thinking that having more kids on the same level would be helpful.

I can honestly say it's been a mixed bag. DC is in an all-AAP 4 classroom all day, yes, but they do miss their Westgate friends, and, as you point out, it's hard to do after-school activities there. The curriculum seems slightly more advanced at Lemon Road, but that's balanced by the teachers (at least DC's teachers) being somewhat *less* skilled with AAP teaching, something that has really surprised us.

I think your child will no doubt flourish in either place. Good luck with the decision![/quote]

This may be a factor in that lemon road hasn't been an AAP center until recently. This kind of stuff is not seen in McLean, Vienna or Great Falls AAP centers. Another thing to consider when using the public schools, not all AAP centers are the same. I notice that lemon rd has a lower great schools rating  (7) for an AAP center when compared to McLean, Vienna and Great Falls, so there may be some correlation there.[/quote]

Probably so, but OP is deciding between Westgate and Lemon Road, so above is N/A.[/quote]

It is applicable because other areas have had AAP centers for a decade or so where as Lemon Road is new. What this means is that as Lemon Road matures, so does the curriculum and teachers. The low score shows that it is not performing at a typical AAP center therefore it has room to improve and should.[/quote]

The low score shows it has poor kids who are performing worse than middleclass kids. Since McLean, Vienna and Great Falls schools have fewer of these, they don't have anything dragging down the rating.  The GS rating is for the school in general, not AAP population so it doesn't really say anything about Lemon Road's performance as an AAP center.[/quote]

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