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We live in Mantua and it's been a great fit for us. We have one kid in AAP and one in the regular program and I feel the school does a terrific job of addressing the needs of both kids. If both children had been STEM stars I would have opted for Haycock as I understand the STEM emphasis in their AAP program is terrific, but I think the AAP program there also dwarfs the regular program in size and has a bit of a reputation as a pressure cooker, so it might not have been as good a fit for my non AAP kid.
It also helped that we were able to find a really nice house for about 300k less than it would have cost in McLean  :-)[/quote]

Haycock's AAP program probably gets more attention than most AAP programs because Haycock feeds into Longfellow MS, which traditionally has sent many students on to TJHSST (Carson, Rocky Run and Kilmer MS are the other middle schools that usually send the most students to TJ).  However, the AAP program there doesn't "dwarf" the regular program (about 40% of Haycock's students are in the AAP program vs. about 25% at Mantua), and parents with kids who aren't in AAP at Haycock seem to like it as well.

By the way, Haycock is in Falls Church, not McLean, and the houses in the Haycock district tend to be somewhat less expensive than those in McLean.  But, given that it's close to both Tysons and the West Falls Church Metro station, houses may be more expensive than those in neighborhoods like Mantua, Truro and Canterbury Woods, all of which are also very nice.   
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