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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For a smaller more hand holding environment, I think you need to go to Falls Church City. Con of falls church city is that those kids have been together since elementary so it may be a bit harder for your kid to break in socially.

[b]Other high schools in inner burbs are pretty big. [/b]But it is a good chance for kids to learn to advocate for themselves if you think your kid is up for it.

We moved from DC to Arlington and are happy with middle school. Don't have experience with high school yet but we are so happy we moved.[/quote]

For the inner burbs, WL will be the largest by at least 800 (36% more students)[/quote]

36% bigger than what? Alexandria's high school has 4,000 students. Montgomery Blair is 3,100. [/quote]

Oh yes, we aspire to be as good as TCW…. Blair is only so large because they boosted its status by adding a magnet to a neighborhood school.

McLean, the W schools, Langley, Marshall, all way smaller. [/quote]

If some of the angst in APS is over the failure to summon the will to build a fourth comprehensive high school, it's not like FCPS is a model of good planning, either.

McLean has over 2400 kids this year.  Marshall has over 2100 and stopped accepting pupil placements into its IB program to avoid overcrowding.  And FCPS projects that over 1000 more kids could feed into Marshall and McLean if all the housing approved for Tysons gets built.

In response, FCPS has stuck its head in the sand and the local School Board member - who lives in the Langley district - responded by making sure that Langley isn't affected by any of the Tysons growth.  It could not have been a more crass display of self-interest and indifference to other schools.

So if you want a smaller close-in school in FCPS, Langley is your only bet, but then you have to put up with the sense of entitlement that comes with a school that only draws from wealthy areas and where the parents expect that local politicians will cater to them.

Is APS looking better now? [/quote]

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