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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree about the SACC thing.  I'm at a Mclean elementary school, Haycock, and we're in first grade now and have been on the waitlist for SACC for 2 years.  (I got in in August of 2010 for my child who was in kindergarten in 2011-2012).  I've had to find private before and aftercare for my child since there's no space for him at the school. (only 30 spots, from what I hear.)

Because Haycock is a AAP-center school, it is severely overcrowded.  When you're in 3rd grade in FCPS, you have the choice, if your kid is "gifted" enough, to send them to the level 3 instruction at your local school, or send them to a "center" AAP level 4 instruction where all the classes are AAP.  Right now there are more center based kids at Haycock then base school kids (more kids from outside the immediate boundary than inside.)  There are 968 kids in the school, and many of them would be going to nearby Lemon Road or Chesterbrook, but because Haycock is the center they, AND THEIR SIBLINGS, can opt to go to Haycock.

The school is so overcrowded and had I known what I know now about this and SACC, I might have looked harder at Arlington.  Only FCPS does this with non-guaranteed SACC--not Montgomery, not Arlington, not Loudon.  And I don't know why all these snowflakes can't just go to their base school for GT/AAP services, or FCPS can't just have more centers.  It's elementary school people.  CHILLAX!  And stop coming into my boundary school. [/quote]

Not sure about this year, but last year the enrollment at Haycock was around 850 students.  Approximately 44% were in the AAP program and, of course, a substantial number of those kids had Haycock as their base school.  I don't believe FCPS has released statistics for the current school year yet.

FCPS could make some changes with the AAP assignments - for example, they could move some of the Sherman AAP kids at Haycock to the Churchill Road center and many of the Spring Hill kids at the Churchill Road center to the Great Falls center.   Great Falls (the location) has become less popular in recent years, so the ES - unlike Haycock - is projected to have substantial capacity in the coming years.   And, of course, FCPS can also expand Haycock's capacity when it renovates the school in a few years.  [/quote]

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