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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is all very helpful, can someone maybe shed some additional light on the Arlington County school district...  from what I understand you have several choices no matter where you live as that for example any child may go to one of the spanish dual immersion schools, or to the traditional school... for elementary.  As far as the High Schools, it appears there are really three: Yorktown, Wash-Lee, and Wakefield.  Now what I'm confused about is the boundaries... Yorktown appears to be in Far North Arlington, but then also around Rosslyn?  With the Wash-Lee boundaries completely encircling that area, why is this?  ... and the boundary line between Wash-Lee and Yorktown bounces around all over the place, not following any road really?[/quote]

You do have some choices, but there are no guarantees that your child will get into any of the other schools, except for your neighborhood school. The exception to this is if you live in the Key (dual immersion) boundary, you can opt to send your child to Science Focus or maybe Taylor because the county cannot force you to send your child to an immersion school if you don't want it.  We have a child who will be entering K this fall and when we went to the orientation for the county, they basically said that it is becoming next to impossible to send your child to a school other than your neighborhood one because of overcrowding.  So you can apply to Key or Science Focus for example, but you might not get in.  As for the boundaries, they are somewhat random.  I am sure it has something to do with trying to even out the numbers...I also think sometimes they move boundaries to get more diversity into the schools.  For example, if Yorktown was only upper N. Arlington it would be very un-diverse.  By adding Rosslyn and some other neighborhoods that may have some more low income neighborhoods/properties, they increase the diversity of the school.  [/quote]

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