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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Last year there were 133 kids at TJ from the McLean pyramid (Longfellow) and 116 kids from the Langley pyramid (Cooper).  Not a big difference.

That averages to 33 kids per year from Longfellow and 29 from Cooper.  So it looks like Longfellow had particularly strong TJ admissions last year while Cooper was down slightly.  Also, keep in mind that Longfellow also has a larger enrollment than Cooper, despite the boundary changes from 2021.  Last year Cooper finished the year with 1019 students while Longfellow had 1236.  [/quote]

Many students from Cooper choose to attend Sidwell, St. Albans, or Potomac, reflecting the affluence of the area. Not everyone is interested in going to TJ. My children were admitted to TJ but decided to attend Potomac School.

McLean HS is falling apart.  The infrastructure is falling apart, and McLean should be very upset about it.[/quote]

Those private schools have kids in lower grades so it’s not necessarily that easy to get admitted in 9th grade.

But cool (and likely made-up) story about your kids turning down TJHSST for Potomac. [/quote]
Why? I would prefer my kids go to Potomac over TJ.  Mine go to a similar independent.  Both had a good chance at getting admitted to TJ, but they are athletes and never applied.  [/quote]

Who knew that the Cooper folks would get this bent out of shape over someone (not me) posting stats on almost twice as many Longfellow kids getting into TJ this past year?  It’s just one year.

Maybe they shouldn’t have started posting about the relative “prestige” of middle schools.  Posting about the “prestige” of public high schools was silly enough.

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