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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hide the lousy scores? Have you looked at Barcroft and Randolph's scores? I don't think anyone is hiding the fact that they are significantly below the county average.[/quote]

You don’t understand how APS looks at it. They are accredited. They aren’t being taken over by the state=they are fine.[/quote]

In the 4 years since I bought my house, the scores have dropped at Barcroft. We used them to choose between Barcroft or Randolph. If someone only has that to go on and really wanted to stay in this area, it would be enough to dissuade them from Barcroft. That, the the lack of any houses under $500K! I mean, what are we doing wrong here? We've gentrified the area - how are we still doing this poorly for those kids, not to mention the UMC ones.[/quote]

No we haven’t. Sure, the single family homes are full of wealthy people, but Barcroft Apartments is still there...[/quote]

They aren't the problem. That is mostly zoned for Randolph. It's Arlington Mill and the other buildings that I think changed the scores. [/quote]

Barcroft has a LOT of kids from Barcroft apartments.  As a parent at Barcroft the past several years, I can attest to many outstanding teachers -- especially the RTG (Resource Teacher for the Gifted) who, fortunately or unfortunately, has moved into a different role this academic year.  I can also suggest that the focus and efforts under the most recent former principle shifted significantly from how Miriam Hughey-Guy approached administering the school - and that shift included some positive changes but a number of negative changes as well.  Enrollment has dropped significantly over each of the past few years and there is yet another affordable housing project in its boundaries that will open in 2019.  My impression from our years there is that there was an uptick in MC families choosing to stay...until a year or two into the new principal's tenure.  But Barcroft is now under the administration of a very beloved APS principal from Ashlawn.  Again, many changes even in her first year and we will see if/how her approaches that were successful at Ashlawn succeed at Barcroft.  [/quote]

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