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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Saratoga has very similar families to those you find at schools like Hunt Valley and Orange Hunt.

The house there are nice and affordable, but they take longer to sell than the other West Springfield homes due to Lee HS.

Daventry house have the same issues.  Wonderful elementary with West Springfield elementary, but feeds into Lee.

WSHS has a diverse student body, very safe, is solidly middle class, some of the most affordable commutable homes in fairfax county, and has virtually identical achievement to the wealthiest schools in the district.

That is why folks are clamouring to be zoned for WSHS over Lee.

For the affordability of the homes you simply cannot beat the value of the schools.[/quote]

I'd say WS is similar to the other schools that are solidly "middle class" as defined around here  - Robinson, Chantilly and Lake Braddock.  The difference in SAT scores between WS and Langley is about the same as the difference between WS and Lee. [/quote]

WSHS, LB, etc SAT and SOL scores are right there with very little difference between all of the other schools in that top three though ten or eleven.  It isbonly the two schools at the very top which have significantly higher scores.  The next eight or so schools are basically identicalnin terms of achievement.

Lee HS is not at all a high performing school and scores far lower than those other schools, including WSHS.[/quote]

Since you're the one who keeps focusing on test scores and labeling entire schools - rather than individual students - as "high performing" or "low performing" here, I'll push back.

The top schools in Fairfax in terms of test scores have been (after TJ), Langley, McLean, Woodson, Madison and Oakton for years.  Below that, you have a large number of "solid, middle-class schools" - West Springfield, Robinson, Chantilly, Lake Braddock, Westfield, South Lakes, Fairfax, Herndon, Centreville and South County.  At the bottom in terms of test scores, although not always in the same order, are Edison, Stuart, Hayfield, Annandale, Falls Church, Lee and Mount Vernon.

The two schools that don't fit so neatly into those three buckets are Marshall and West Potomac.  I'd argue that Marshall will join the first group in another year or two.  West Potomac seems to bounce between the second and third groups.  If there's any Fairfax school that can be said to have "Langley scores for an affordable price," it's Woodson, not West Springfield.    [/quote]

I never said Langley.

In fact, I said that the top two (TJ and Langley) are in a league by themselves.

I said the "wealthiest school[b]s[/b]" which would be the cluster of schools you mentioned (McLean, Woodson, Madison, etc).  If OP was asking about Lake Braddock or Robinson vs Lee, I would have said the exact same thing.  They are middle class schools (although LB has some very wealthy areas that feed into it) where you receive an education at a middle class price (most houses are right around $500K for a sfh) that is right on par with what the kids in the affluent areas are receiving.  That is why WS (and LB and Robinson, etc) are so popular and why their houses go much quicker than the houses that feed into Lee.  Folks know the value they are getting from the schools vs what they are paying for housing.  It is an outstanding value.[/quote]

Yes, and I disagree.  If you look at test scores, TJ clearly is in a class by itself, but McLean, Woodson, Madison and Oakton are much closer to Langley than they are to West Springfield.   [/quote]

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