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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hello.. we plan to move to VA and having a high school kid and an elementary kid, plz recommend areas for renting (temporary) and buy a home in the near future so we don’t need to change schools. Schools we are particularly looking for is Carson Middle school and Chantilly high school. Not sure which elementary school we fall under if we find a home that takes kids into Carson and Chantilly high school? Thank you![/quote]

Right now, only kids in LLIV AAP go from Carson to Chantilly.  All of the Gen Ed kids at Carson are zoned Westfield, SLHS or Oakton.   And at some point, Franklin based kids will probably lose the ability to fo to Carson. Which is fine. 1/2 of the Carson AAP kids are Franklin based. Once Franklin becomes mandatory, it’s AAP Center will be as large as Carson, and will have the exact same affluent kids with highly educated parents that make Carson so good now.  The high school piece is more important.  I would choose Franklin zoned (Carson AAP) to Chantilly over Carson zoned to Westfield, SLHS, or even Oakton(because the commute is awful from Western County and for your current kid, they just started a huge renovation).

You want Lees Corner ES (with has local level IV AAP) or Oak Hill (Level IV Center).  Feeding to Franklin MS (right now you have Carson as a choice for a Level IV Center) feeding to Chantilly.  This is where zips 20151 and 20171 meet.  Neighborhoods include part of Franklin Farm, Armfield Farm, Chantilly Highlands and several others. All great neighborhood to raise kids.  Sidewalks, pools, soccer fields, nice neighbors.   Some are just SFHs, some are SFHs plus some townhouses.

Another great option is some of the ES that feed to Rocky Run MS to Chantilly.  RRMS is a lot like Carson, and is another large TJ feeder MS.  I am not as familiar with their feeder pattern, so someone else will have to tell you which ESs are good I think Greenbrier West? [/quote]

Franklin has a very strong local Level IV program. The teachers have been teaching AAP for 4-5 years, and they'very built a fantastic program. Franklin's AAP program is small, but it's stellar. Therefore, if you, OP, move into a Franklin-districted neighborhood,  you have the option of placing your child at Franklin. [/quote]

I live in the Franklin attendance area, but don’t have kids in the MS yet. A couple of my neighbors were saying that they regretted sending their kids to Franklin LLIV over Carson AAP because the Franklin AAP program was too small (all the kids had all their classes together for two years which was smothering for MS kids) and because Franklin had problems with drugs this year.  They said there were police at the school during school hours and on the school buses with the kids with drug sniffing dogs?

Are the stories about there being a drug problem true?  I had thought it would be better to send my rising 6th grader to Franklin then Chantilly to stay with her peers. But talking to them definately has me rethinking. [/quote]

Yowwzza.  I just asked my Franklin base school just graduated from Carson kid about this and she said that she had heard about it from her Franklin Friends, but had assumed it was a rumor.   The Franklin v. Carson choice was was tough for us. Guess we chose right. [/quote]

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