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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why is Lake Braddock better than Annandale? Is Robert E Lee better or worse? What about Edison or Hayfield?[/quote]

The party line evaluates schools based on test scores and demographics.  Lake Braddock has higher test scores and fewer low-income kids than Annandale.  Over the past decade, FCPS moved a lot of the more stable single-family neighborhoods assigned to Annandale to other schools.  So Columbia Pines got moved to Falls Church, Ravensworth got moved to Lake Braddock, Wakefield Forest got moved to Woodson, and Edsall Park got moved to Edison.  There are still some nice areas zoned for Annandale, but a high percentage of the kids there now live in low-income apartments that are either just inside the Beltway in Annandale or near Landmark.  In comparison, Lake Braddock pulls mostly from single-family neighborhoods and townhouses in Burke and West Springfield.

Lee is similar to Annandale, the main difference being that it pulls from fewer apartment complexes and more run-down single-family neighborhoods, along with nicer areas like Saratoga and Daventry.  Edison and Hayfield are considered more desirable than Annandale and Lee now, but still several notches below Lake Braddock.  The big Kingstowne development in Alexandria splits between those schools.   Edison is an IB high school; Hayfield is an AP secondary school.[/quote]

This. We are in one of the nicer single family home areas zoned for Annandale HS (Pinecrest), and I love our neighborhood, and it is great for me, my husband and our (very young) kids for now, but I don't know what are are going to do when they get older. We moved here before we had kids.

Some of the apartment complexes zoned for Annandale are seriously decrepit and disgusting. [b]I really don't know what the county thought would happen by rezoning so many nicer neighborhoods away from Annandale.[/b] [/quote]

The odd part is FCPS Facilities said Annandale was overcrowded and Woodson had lots of room. Now just two years later Woodson is severely overcrowded and Annandale has lots of room.

We live in a neighborhood we love (Brook Hills) but have pupil placed for high school.[/quote]

Annandale was definitely overcrowded a while back.  I think what happened was that FCPS agreed to move Wakefield Forest to Woodson without realizing that, in another year or so, the City of Fairfax would demand that FCPS reduce the non-City enrollment at Fairfax HS, when led to more kids being reassigned to Woodson.  [b]I also think FCPS underestimated the extent to which people would start avoiding Poe and Annandale, once it became clear that FCPS was OK driving up the ESOL/FARMS rates at those two schools.[/b]  [/quote]

I just looked those up under School Profiles. Thanks for pointing this out.

Poe MS FARMS:
2011-12:  665 students 60.62%
2012-13:  616 students 65.32%
2013-14:  655 students 72.94%

Poe MS English Proficiency:
2011-12:  684 students 62.35%
2012-13:  608 students 64.48%
2013-14:  596 students 66.37%

Annandale HS FARMS:
2011-12:  1,249 students 51.89%
2012-13:  1,213 students 51.73%
2013-14:  1,233 students 55.39%

Annandale HS English Proficiency:
2011-12:  1,851 students 76.90%
2012-13:  1,875 students 79.96%
2013-14:  1,740 students 78.17%
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