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 Fairfax is a huge, lumbering, and somewhat decaying county. It's school system is a mixed bag. Tread wisely.

It is still stronger than any other public school system in the DC region, measured by both breadth of programs and average test scores. With OP's budget, they will also have no difficulty finding something in a strong pyramid.

[b]Perhaps, but Arlington schools just seem better[/b]. But other threads indicate that S Arlington is going down the tubes[/quote]

Based on what? Snob appeal? Maybe you should take a look at the recent ratings--USNews, even the VA Governors awards. Where are the Arlington high schools on those lists?[/quote]

Two-thirds of Arlington's high schools were in the top 20 of US News & World Report. 11 APS schools were  2015 Virginia Index of Performance (VIP) awards. Williamsburg was a 2015 Governor’s Award of Educational Excellence Recipient. http://www.apsva.us//site/Default.aspx?PageID=30073

In 2014, Arlington Public Schools (APS) was the recipient of the prestigious Medallion of Excellence Award presented by the U.S. Senate Productivity and Quality Awards for Virginia and the District of Columbia (SPQA). The Medallion Award is SPQA’s highest award level for performance excellence. Since the award was established in 1983, APS is only the ninth school division in Virginia to receive it and the first school division in nearly a decade to be recognized. 
 http://www.apsva.us/Page/25718

So, you're just being silly trash-talking Arlington. Sit down and shut up already. You opinion isn't valid.

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Not the PP, but the genesis of this exchange was someone irrelevantly "trash-talking" FCPS as unwieldy, etc.  I emphsize it's irrelevancy because no one in their right mind working in Reston should be looking to live in Arlington, so promoting a pissing contest between FCPS and APS is particularly silly here.

You can manipulate the statistics as you wish, but none of the APS high schools were in the top 10 of the last USNW ratings, as compared with seven from FCPS; only one APS middle and one APS high school were recipients of 2015 Virginia Department of Education Index of Performance awards, as compared with 20 FCPS middle and high schools; and APS's top-ranked neighborhood high school, Yorktown, most recently had SAT scores below seven high schools from FCPS.

FCPS more than holds its own against APS, and then some.  Go away. [/quote]

You seem to be unable to tout FCPS without attacking APS, which speaks volumes about your insecurity.

Yeah, Yorktown is #12 this year in USNW. Big whoop. It's been top 10 in recent years. W&L is now No. 20. And, they don't even measure HB Woodlawn, one of the best high schools in the nation. Shut up.[/quote]

How many times do people need to tell you to leave Arlington and its lower ranked schools out of this thread?  HB Woodlawn probably doesn't get ranked because it's more of a program than a school, but even on a stand-alone basis it would be ranked much lower than TJ in Fairfax, which is the top school in the country.

For the thousandth time, stop mucking up the thread for the OP.[/quote]

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