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[quote]If you live in an IB school district, you can transfer to an AP school - and vice versa. It is nice to have options.

Our AP option is a much lower performing school. My kids will be sticking with IB.

That is very rarely the case in FCPS. Maybe if you are zoned for Marshall and Falls Church is your only AP option. Otherwise the AP schools are usually more sought after. Look at all the transfers out of Annandale, Lee and Mount Vernon.

You nailed it. We're zoned for Marshall and definitely don't want Falls Church. We're about a half mile closer to Falls Church than we are to McLean. We're fortunate that Marshall is a great school, but I wish we had a better AP option.

[b]The irony here is that Marshall became known as a much better school AFTER it introduced the IB program[/b]. [/quote]
Actually, it is your comment that is ironical. The reason Marshall is now known as being better is because of the scenario above: Falls Church HS is widely thought to be sub-par, and many people would rather send their kids somewhere else. When Marshall became IB, that gave families an option to avoid Falls Church HS: they could pupil-place at Marshall for IB instead. That has helped channel some of the better students away from Falls Church and toward Marshall. That's why Marshall's standing has improved, not because of the IB program.

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