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[quote=Anonymous]Wakefield is less diverse than CW, or at least feels that way if you’re in AAP.

I like that the center teachers can plan together. It makes for stronger lessons.

Olde Creek is a great community. But like Little Run, it is tiny and by the end of elementary school, the kids are over it. But - if your AAP kid goes to a non-center school, even if it’s large, you are in this boat, with the same kids in the AAP class each year. I wouldn’t send my AAP kid to the base school for that reason.

Olde Creek’s GS ratings need to be taken with a grain of salt. They have a center for special education students with fairly high needs, which surely impacts test scores. Compare that to CW, for example, where they have a center for deaf and hard of hearing, which wouldn’t have much if any impact on assessments, as well as an AAP center.

CW is not as open of a community IMO, and while I’ve heard the Mantua parents are worse, some of the CW AAP parents are also very intense.

CW may give homework but it’s really minimal. My child generally does it at school, and I’m sure there are minimal consequences if they didn’t do it at all (not that you want to model that for your kid, but it isn’t critical to the rest of their day). I would definitely not choose between that and another school based on homework. [/quote]

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