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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does anyone have actual information[/quote]

Actual downloadable and sortable via excel info is on VDOE not FCPS.  That is also the source for IB utilization and can be analyzed in conjunction with program and detail budgets. Actual informaton combined shows an astronomical IB cost per senior in IB. http://www.doe.virginia.gov/statistics_reports/index.shtml

enrollment reported to state can vary from the dashboard:

http://schoolprofiles.fcps.edu/schlprfl/f?p=108:42:13789698018908::NO::P42_SCHOOL_YEAR,P42_CLUSTER_ID,P42_DIVISION_ID,P42_SCHOOL_ID:201819,1,DIVISION,

TJ sept =1781 v program capacity 2164=383.  Utilization 82%
TJ june =1766 v program capacity 2164=398.  Utilzation

So why isn't that site used? Buses are running.
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Because kids drop out of TJ. They start with a class of 480 and 420 make it to graduation. And that includes the 10-12 kids they pick up as froshmores and juniors.

Could TJ start with a class of 500-520?  Probably.  But the state caps reimbursement for the number of governors school kids. And FCPS will not spend more per pupil than for other schools.  Because people like you would gripe. But the nature of the science research impart of the curriculum is that it costs more.

Now, if you want to bus 50 random kids there per grade, I can’t imagine how that works, because TJ works differently than a normal high school, on a different schedule.  It doesn’t even have a real lunchroom.

If you really care, put pressure on the state to shell out the governors school supplement for more kids. [/quote]

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