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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]    Dorothy Hamm, the new middle school in North Arlington, has been way under-enrolled, and was built to a much higher capacity. It’s new building and grounds are beautiful, the best among middle schools in Arlington. Test scores are among the highest in Northern Virginia, and the principal and teachers are well liked. All that is still not enough to convince families to return to APS. Families here are wealthy and fickle and the pandemic created a large shift away from APS towards private schools. Area privates like Maret, SFS, STA, NCS, GDS, WIS, etc are all quite good. Hopefully new families will came back to APS.

It wasn’t mentioned, but Long Branch is also a popular neighborhood ES located on the N/S Arlington border. The new Fleet ES also on the N/S Arlington border is well liked and serves nearby Fort Myer and military families in general.

[b]We are Long Branch/TJ/W-L and have generally been happy but my youngest is now graduating from W-L. The virtue of APS vs Fairfax when we started was consistently small class sizes which made in ES for better meeting kids needs, including at the time pull-out for gifted students. All of those benefits seem to be gone. I still love living in Arlington but if moving here now with young kids I'd look for schools that go to Hamm/W-L. I think that's the best MS/HS option right now. And assume your may need to supplement for ES wherever you go[/b]. [/quote]

But your own kids went to TJ? What was wrong with TJ?[/quote]

It seems anyone living north of Route 50 will ultimately proffer the opinion that schools comprised of only north-of-route-50 students is the only "right" answer. And anyone from the central part of Arlington north of 50 will always proclaim WL is the holy grail of Arlington high schools.

PP, why is Hamm-WL any better than Hamm-YHS? or TJ-WL? or TJ-WHS? If your kids went to TJ, why are you convinced Hamm is better, let alone the best?[/quote]

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