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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The thing I wish more parents would realize in these scenarios when seeing the potential for their kids to move to a “worse” school is that neighbors that your kids go to school with already, presumably if a similar SES, would also be at the school. It would normalize and change by very fact of you moving there.

I mean if there are issues with teachers/admin/extracurriculars, those aren’t going to be solved overnight. But the school you’d be moved into isn’t the same as the school is today. [/quote]

Fox Mill was moved from Oakton in 2008. I can promise you that SLHS is no where near Oakton HS in any measurable manner. Not the class offerings, not the after school clubs, not the overall performance of the students. I get not wanting to move from Oakton to SLHS or WSHS to Lewis or Langley to Herndon. No offense, the one or two schools that they move will not bring the new school up to the level, or even close to the level, of the old school.

Skyview is going to be closer to Chantilly then it is Westfield or SLHS in performance. All you have to do is look at the performance of Floris and Oak Hill to see that there will be a significant number of higher achieving kids at the school. Toss in Crossfield or Fox Mill and you have a very strong school. There are good students at McNair and Coates as well. That is why Oak Hill is probably not too upset with moving, although they would prefer to stay at Chantilly. The Crossfield families that are unhappy with the idea of moving are mainly the Tiger parent families whose kids didn't get into TJ. If they can't go to TJ then they have to go to the next best thing that they can, which is Oakton.

I don't know enough to talk about Centreville or Westfield. The families I know at Westfield are very happy to be there and seem to enjoy the school. A good number are annoyed that there are kids leaving the school because they like the composition of the school. [/quote]

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