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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our oldest daughter will enter kindergarten next year. We had planned to send her to the elementary we are zoned for, one of the ones that's supposed to be "better" - but the recent abysmal report card from the state is seriously disturbing. Not a single school fully accredited in ACPS, almost all elementaries (including ours) listed as off track. I've seen many defend clerical issues that led to the scores, but even if that's true - it's no prize. It's also bad and indicative of the kind of environment that's been allowed to continue in the system here it seems.

It would be a huge stretch to pay for private. We love living in ALX, but it seems like the families around us much be much much richer if they can afford to send multiple kids to private school and continue to live in the community.

Do we just leave Alexandria for Bethesda or somewhere else? Uprooting our lives to move? Do we plant a money tree and hope for the best? What are families here doing?

Thanks. [/quote]

I mean, this is the dilemma parents have been struggling with for at least the entire 30 years I have lived here. We lived Alexandria for North Arlington. And then Arlington for Loudoun, which has far better schools. Don't regret it. Added bonus is it was easier to get into UVA and VT as top students from those schools than it might have been from Yorktown. There are some cynics who say if you can thrive at Alexandria City High School (previously TC Williams) that can help your college admissions because you will have seemed to have survived a bad school. But IMO, schools shouldn't be something one has to "survive."[/quote]

*left

We went MacArthur ES in Alexandria to Jamestown ES in Arlington/Williambsurg MS to Loudoun Valley in Loudoun. No regrets.[/quote]

There's is no comparison between Loudoun Valley High and Yorktown High, the school you gave up in Arlington.  It's universally regarded as one of the state's best high schools, which LV is not, and it's in Arlington -- not Purcellville, egads.[/quote]

DP. A possible advantage of a lower ranked school is that students who are sharp sometimes (not always) will have higher class rank, less competition from within that HS, and better college admissions.

It literally is the big fish, small pond scenario. If LVHS has more % FARMS,  then the student also might benefit from that now that colleges are looking for a proxy for ethnicity. [/quote]

Are you from NOVA?  Do you know ANYTHING about the public schools here?   If you did, you’d know that (1) there are more FARMS at Yorktown than LV and Yorktown has greater diversity but (2) Yorktown’s SAT scores are still much higher and its graduates do better with college admissions.  The top kids at Yorktown are much better students.   [/quote]

And yet … my top stats kid who would have gone to Yorktown did just fine at LVHS and went T-20 while her friends with similar stats ended up at … Alabama. And then transferred after a year to ODU. So. [/quote]

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