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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parent of two DCPS graduates, both went to Hardy and then graduated from Wilson/Jackson Reed.  It is hard to make a direct comparison between the middle schools, but I can tell you that measuring the ultimate outcome -  college acceptance and readiness - the DCPS kids were very much on par with their peers from Arlington and Montgomery County.

If anything, I think the DCPS kids were more college ready and independent than the Arlington/MoCo kids.[/quote]

Are they? I have siblings in Arlington whose teen do all sorts of things in their public schools that don't seem to be options in the best of DCPS or DCPCS. They have easy access to a much wider range of AP classes, and IB Diploma classes at Washington-Liberty.  I've seen the list of current DCI IBD classes along with the Washington-Liberty list. The latter is at least twice as long as the DCI list. I'm assuming that the lists for Banneker and Eastern can't compete with DCI's. [b]In Arlington, if your MS offers IB so does your HS,[/b] unlike Deal (IB curriculum) and J-R (no IBD, makes no sense).

One nephew, at Yorktown, is training as an EMT at the Arlington HS Career Center nearby for free, as a step toward applying to college pre-Med programs. A niece is training to be a vet tech through the same career center in their giant animal lab (with a couple hundred animals). My younger nieces and nephews take school band or string orchestra as a daily class in their middle schools with the chance to complete to play in country and division (with Fairfax) competitive ensembles for free. They also take honors classes in all core subjects as mentioned above.

Yet the DCPS kids come out ahead?  [/quote]

Just to clarify, this (IB in MS>IB in HS) is only the case for a small group of kids in the district - those who are zoned Jefferson Middle School (only IB middle school) and then W-L HS (only IB HS). Unless it's changed recently, that's really just kids zoned to Long Branch ES. The rest of the Jefferson Middle School zone goes to Wakefield. You can apply to transfer to IB at W-L but it's not the default. And, if you applied to transfer to Jefferson for IBMYP, you still have to apply again to transfer to W-L if it's not your zoned school. Also, IB transfers to W-L are locked in to doing the IB program while those zoned to W-L can pick and choose between IB and AP classes. My kids did Long Branch/Jefferson/W-L (did the AP/IB mix).

Overall, have been happy with the resources and opportunities in Arlington.[/quote]

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