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[quote=Anonymous]Mantua is an AAP center, so if you buy in that district your child can stay in the same school whether he/she tests into LLIV (the gifted program) or not.

Some of the posters (presumably from APS) have noted that AAP in FCPS may "siphon off" brighter kids, but the flip side is that AAP attracts families who otherwise might not buy in Fairfax to the county.

There are a lot of similarities between Woodson and Yorktown, but there are differences.  Woodson families, overall, are less affluent than Yorktown families, so there are fewer kids with a sense of entitlement.  There are also a lot more Asian kids in the top FCPS pyramids, including Woodson, than in APS.  In addition, every high school in FCPS is either AP or IB, for the most part.  In comparison, APS offers a full range of both AP and IB courses at Washington-Lee, but not Yorktown.  So a lot of the brighter kids at Yorktown pupil-place to W-L for IB, but Yorktown doesn't get bright kids who want AP from W-L in return.

Having said all this, I wouldn't move for schools alone, but if there are other financial or personal benefits to being further out in a less expensive area, I'd take Woodson over Yorktown. 
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