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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Herndon / Westfield seemed to be highly regarded high schools. Back when I was in high school @ Westfield 15 years ago, Everyone fought like hell to not get redistricting to the poor performing ghetto known as South Lakes. Now South Lakes has higher test scores than both Herndon/South Lakes? What happened? [/quote]

I was at Herndon around the same timeframe, and while Westfields was well regarded, Herndon was never more than average (but South Lakes was definitely a school to avoid).

None of the classes at Herndon were ever taught in spanish (except Spanish class, obv.) I doubt that has changed.

As for not enough APs, I found that the AP offering at Herndon was enough to be rigorous - you could take AP World Hist, US Hist, US Govt, Comparative Govt, Psych, Stats, Physics C, Biology, Anatomy (I think this was an AP), Calc AB, Calc BC, English Lang, English Lit, Computer Science, Latin/French/German/Spanish - all at HHS. We also had astronomy as I recall (one of the few High schools in FCPS with a planetarium) and we had the ability to take 4 years of Fashion Marketing, which I can't imagine was standard practice at most FCPS schools.

Did we have every class I would have wished for? Not by a long shot. But it was enough that if you were taking full loads of APs, you certainly had your hands full and were fully equipped to go to a competitive college and kick ass. [/quote]

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