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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We both work in DC and some time take metro/car. 
I don't know how to move this topic on the AAP :(

About MS school: both Haycock and Churchill students go to Longfellow and as of today it has rating of 10 on great school. I don't see much difference in the rating between Mclean HS and Langley. Both are at 9. Who knows it will stay the same in the future. But I guess we should think on that side as well... parenthood is fun :) Please share your experience about both HS. It would be helpful to most of the parents.
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The school board almost moved the Langley AAP student to Cooper, from Longfellow, for the 2013-2014 year.  It was tabled for more information/time.  It is highly likely to happen for the 2014-2015 or 2015-2016 school year.  Longfellow is slated to be over crowded and Cooper is slated to be under-enrolled- so it is a no brainer.  There are enough AAP students for both Longfellow and Cooper to have viable AAP programs.  [/quote]

I think you are projecting when you say it is "highly likely" Cooper will have an AAP center in another year or two.  There are several hurdles.  First, most Cooper AAP parents seem not to want to move their kids out of the established AAP programs at Longfellow and Kilmer.  Second, those parents claim the FCPS enrollment projections are off and that Cooper won't have space for an AAP program, particularly since Cooper is slated to be renovated in a few years.  Third, adding AAP centers at Cooper and Thoreau will underscore that there are more AAP-eligible kids in the wealthy parts of the county, which is an inconvenient truth for FCPS.

Of course, the numbers will ultimately drive what happens, just as was the case recently with Haycock/Lemon Road.  If Kilmer is at 135% capacity in a few years, and Cooper is at 63% in a few years, the in-boundary Kilmer parents will agitate to move Langley kids to Cooper.  Longfellow is not projected to be nearly as overcrowded, since it was expanded during a recent renovation, so it's really the numbers at Cooper and Kilmer that will dictate the outcome. [/quote]

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