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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OK, I’ll play as well.

Tier 1:
1. TJ

Tier 2:
2. Langley
3. McLean
4. Oakton

Tier 3:
5. Madison
6. Marshall
7. Woodson
8. Chantilly

Tier 4:
9. West Springfield
10. Lake Braddock
11. Robinson

Tier 5:
12. Centreville
13. Fairfax
14. Westfield
15. South Lakes

Other/tier 6:
16. South County
17. Hayfield
18. Annandale
19. Falls Church
20. Justice
21. Herndon
22. West Potomac
23. Mount Vernon
24. Lewis

[b]Someone should do a similar one for Middle schools :)[/b]
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Yes, please![/quote]

Yeah, good idea. Someone should start a new thread.

1) Cooper
2) Longfellow
3) Thoreau
4) Rocky Run
5) Frost
6) Irving
7j Lake Braddock

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Longfellow is superior to Cooper.[/quote]

+1.

Nearly twice as many Longfellow students earn admission to TJ as compared to Cooper:

All FCPS middle schools are represented in the Class of 2029:

Longfellow Middle School - 48

Cooper Middle School - 25
Frost Middle School - 19
Katherine Johnson Middle School - 14
Kilmer Middle School - 13
Lake Braddock Middle School - 17
Rocky Run Middle School - 22[/quote]

You'd better hope your Longfellow kid gets into TJ because McLean HS is falling apart and dropping in the rankings.  It had a good principal but now she's gone, too.  [/quote]

Can you tell us more about this? How is McLean falling apart? Like walls crumbling? Plumbing leaks? Tell us more, please (ES mom zoned to McLean, now getting a little worried about my child's safety)[/quote]

DD is a senior there now.

McLean is safe.  Teachers are very good and the student body in the AP and DE classes are serious and academically-driven.

The school board and superintendent hate McLean.  They have long viewed McLean as “benefitting from unearned Asian privilege and white privilege.”  So FCPS neglects McLean and refuses to renovate it, even though it desperately needs it.  McLean isn’t even on the renovation list.  Ironically, McLean is now majority-minority, and the SB still hates it.

[b]Elaine Tholen ran for SB (and won) on a promise to finally renovate McLean, then she  broke her promise and had Langley renovated instead (her kids went to Langley).[/b]

Just before DD entered HS, McLean had 21 temporary trailers for the severe overcrowding. They even closed the school tennis court and put temporary trailers on it.  Then they spent a few $$ for a temporary “pod,” which replaced all but 4 of the temporary trailers.  DD said she doesn’t mind the pod because “at least the AC and heating work reliably, unlike the main building.”

Again:  the education at McLean is very good; the new principal is new (too new for me to have any impression of her), but don’t expect the SB and Reid to treat McLean fairly any year soon.  They clearly disfavor McLean at every opportunity.

BTW, I don’t usually comment on McL, but I know another parent (a mom) often does.

- McLean dad

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NP.  Just wanted to address the bolded.  Langley waited its turn in the renovation queue - it wasn't moved up or ahead of anyone else.  The narrative you're trying to spin is false.  McLean was not somehow pushed out of the queue to make room for Langley.  McLean had [b]already[/b] had a renovation completed in 2005.  Next time, tell the truth.[/quote]

An earlier post already made this point. Your piling on is obnoxious. [/quote]

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