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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am in the market for a home and am wondering if I should avoid certain center schools in neighborhoods that are more mixed in terms of SES. If centers go away, wouldn't these schools then become weaker academically, if the student body was more representative of the neighborhood rather than also drawing on the brightest from other schools? Would the boundaries expand/change to bring in more local students? [/quote]

I would say people are less likely to send their kids to the center school in the first instance here though.  If you send us the area we could opine more.  But for example, I know that most kids at Silverbrook stay at Silverbrook for Local level IV as opposed to going to Lorton ES as the center.[/quote]

Canterbury Woods. [/quote]

How are we defining CWES as mixed SES? Yes it's not the richest area, but there are literally no town homes or apartments that feed into the school.[/quote]

Ok, playing devils advocate for a moment. I have scoured the home listings for the past couple of years and I notice a big diff between houses listed in Wakefield ES and Canterbury Woods zones. Is this because only certain homes are being listed or is there a big difference? Yes, of course, when we are comparing to FCPS at large CBWES is not "mixed SES" but relatively speaking there seems to be a non-trivial difference between these two school zones (or is that perception distorted by the housing market?)

Maybe mixed SES is not the best word and of course it's all relative. [/quote]

CWES itself is not mixed SES. It's all high rank military and federal workers - fairly high SES. The population that comes in for AAP makes it mixed SES. If AAP were to go away, CWES would be a very homogenous place.[/quote][/quote]

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