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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is it me or is Fox Mill hot these days????[/quote]

I had one kid at an AAP center school, and one kid in JI at Fox Mill, and pandemic-wise, Fox Mill absolutely blew the other school out of the water. FM provided quarterly packets of manipulatives and worksheets and so on(*), and seemed really on the ball as far as parent communication. AAP center provided nothing -- everything was done online, other than maybe art --  and said little.

(*) Another parent on this forum said that her child's grade only got one or two of those packets, but that's still one or two more than my child got at the other school.[/quote]

For the parent of the kid in JI, are you planning to send said child to Carson and SLHS, or are you in another pyramid?[/quote]

Not all of JI kids live on the Fox Mill boundary.  As long as you provide transportation (and win a lottery), your kid can be enrolled in the JI program at Fox Mill. I have seen JI kids from Oakton, Chantilly, and Robinson boundaries. [/quote]

That's kind of what I'm trying to figure out -- my daughter should have no problem testing into the program in a higher grade, so we don't expect we'd need to "win a lottery" for her to attend the school.  So, with the reasonable assurance that she can go there, should I still try to land in-boundary so that she can be assured of going to SHLS, or are there better high school programs near enough nearby that we should aim for (even if they mean providing transport for her in ES and MS).[/quote]

My understanding is that it's possible to place the kid into Carson and then SLHS, even if you are out of boundary. Carson has a decent rep, and is an AAP center. (Though whether AAP centers will still exist long term is unclear...)  I do like Fox Mill quite a bit, but it isn't entirely able to paper over the weaknesses of the FCPS system and those are going to be more apparent as the kids get older. If we stay in public, then we'd continue on to Carson, then Oakton, our zoned HS.

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Thanks!  Are there specific other Middle/HSs in the area you're considering?[/quote]

Too late for me to consider, but in the public realm, Madison, maybe. The zones are weird-looking and it's another high school that has a boundary relatively close to FMES. I know some people who profess to be happy there. A set of cousins seemed to like South Lakes, for what it's worth.

Honestly, the Fox Mill area is relatively inexpensive by our regionally insane real estate standards. I wish I'd bought there and then banked the savings into a private school tuition fund, for when that becomes necessary.[/quote]

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