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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't understand why everyone seems to want their kid to go to WL but then complains about the large size.  There is a disconnect there.[/quote]

They want someone else to leave. It is tough because elementary has many equivalent schools, but the difference between the 3 high schools is stark.  [/quote]

Is it really?  My kids are not in HS yet but our neighbors go to Wakefield and they absolutely love it!  I know that WL is the only one that has IB, but seems like a small number of kids do the full program.  So what is so much better about WL, especially when it will be so large? [/quote]

It’s not just the IB. It’s having critical mass of kids to take the top tier advanced classes in AP as well. Wakefield doesn’t run all the offerings in the course guide. Not by a long shot. WL and Yorktown run any more of them because they have plenty of kids who want those classes. WL and Yorktown are still very different schools themselves. But the salient difference between Wakefield and WL is large numbers of super motivated advanced learners.  You can get a fine education at Wakefield by any measure. But it’s not comparable to WL.  [/quote]

What kinds of classes does Wakefield not offer? Things like AP biology & AP chemistry? Advanced math? Something else?
I know that none of the high schools run everything in the course guide every year. [/quote]

Yeah I am curious about this. What is the difference in AP classes offered at Wakefield vs WL vs Yorktown. Wakefield website says they offers 30 of the 38 classes authorized by the college board. But maybe they don't offer all at once. The exam schedule from the two schools don't look that different except maybe in language [/quote]

I think it's hard to answer because it depends on how many students enroll in a given course any given semester/year. Course might be offered on the books, but if not a minimum # of students registered, it gets canceled (AP or not). This is a consequence of imbalanced socioeconomics. But YHS and WL people don't care because it doesn't impact them and they're afraid if they have a few more poor people, it will. WL should be the model for APS - pretty balanced diversity AND full academic offerings. But, no....[/quote]

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