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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You should ignore the suggestions for West Springfield, Robinson and Lake Braddock.  They are huge schools and there is a big focus on sports.  An average athlete is not making varsity basketball or baseball teams there, particularly if they haven't grown up in the area, shelled out money for the coaches' summer camps, etc.

Falls Church and Hayfield are better suggestions - you just don't hear about them as often because there are some people in Burke and West Springfield who think the special "niche" for their schools are military families commuting to the Pentagon or Fort Belvoir.  But West Springfield, Robinson and Lake Braddock aren't the only schools in the area, and they don't meet your specs at all.   [/quote]

OP, there is a poster who is VERY anti WS and LB for some reason.  She posts on other threads and has probably found your thread too. Take her post with a grain of salt.

Those two pyramids are very popular with military families and have a very strong military community. Ask around your base and you will get good suggestions from people who were stationed here before.  They might be a good fit for your kids. They might not be. But if you are looking for a community that is skilled at welcoming military kids and helping them adapt, those two pyramids can't be beat.  Lake Braddock and Robinson are huge, but there seems to be lots of groups for all kinds of kids to find their niche.  WS is one of the smaller high schools in Fairfax County. They are not small, but by fcps standards they are definitely smaller.

We have been stationed in the area several times. The first time we were childless and lives inside the beltway along the Orange line. When we came back with kids, there was no question that the WS/Burke area was at the top of our list. It is really one of the best areas in northern VA for families with kids who want good schools and do not want a pressure cooker environment.

Also, as I posted above, do not leave off those other areas (Hayfield, South County, Robinson, Arlington if you can afford it) The Fort Hunt area of Alexandria is iffy with high school kids as many do private to avoid the high school.

Don't listen to this poster. She is steering you wrong.

Good luck!

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I have to say every time I hear about a school that is very pro military I think "very conservative" and "highly mobile". It's a turn off to people who want to stay in the area for a long time. [/quote]

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Considering that OP is military and transitory, those things are likely all huge plusses for her, not negatives.[/quote]

DP, but it's obnoxious to call schools "iffy" just because they have more minorities than WS/Robinson/LB and label every school with higher test scores "pressure cookers."

That attitude is very common among the WS/LB/Robinson set, and it's definitely a negative. [/quote]

I referred to those schools as iffy because that is what people who live in those areas say.  There are many posters who say that the elementary schools around Fort Hunt are wonderful but that "you probably want to look into private for middle and high school."  I actually recommended those areas in my first post (I think 9:42 ish) but on my second post used the word iffy to describe the high schools as that is how people from that part of Alexandria consistently describe their high school options (West Potomac fine but overcrowded due to people in neighboring schools placing into it and zoning issues).  LBSS or WSHS OR RES being good schools is not N insult to West Potomac.  Repeating what many posters from the West Potomac area say about their own high school is not a slam.[/quote]

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