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[quote=Anonymous]The last Freedom of Information Act request I submitted (School Year 2015-2016) showed 170 transfers out of Lee and only 16 transfers in, for a net loss of 154 students. These are totals across the four grades.

88 of the outbound requests were for AP, while the number was so small for inbound IB requests that they could not tell me the exact number for privacy reasons (which means it was less than 5).

There were 13 outbound transfer requests for siblings who may have been connected to AP transfers, and there were 21 requests for senior transfers who may have previously used AP as their transfer reason.

Fourteen FCPS employees transferred their students out of Lee and NOT ONE transferred their student to Lee. What does that say?

There were also 19 other curricular transfers out of Lee which were likely for a language. Just pick a langauge Lee doesn't have and you can escape. Lee is one of only 3 schools in the county to not offer Latin.

Lake Braddock alone took 88 of Lee's students, Hayfield and South County each took 24, and the others were a combination of Annandale, Edison, West Springfield, and other schools.

IB was put into the lower SES schools to keep people from leaving, but in Lee's case it has done the exact opposite. Lee has averaged about 5% of the students earning the IB Diploma. IB does not work for all the schools.

By the way, I would wager that very few of the transfers out of Lee qualify for F/R lunch, which means the F/R lunch students are being left behind at Lee.

Lee's administration has been trying to address this problem over the last couple of years (adding some AP classes and an additional language), but FCPS policy makes it hard for them to stem the tide.[/quote]

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