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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Keep in mind that depending on where your future house is located, your kid and their friends may end up in separate high schools. Kids who attend Kenmore & live north of highway 50 go to W&L (I believe) and south go to Wakefield. Kenmore may (or might not) become the new immersion location but the SB put that convo on hold. You might consider joining Arlington Education Matters to get a feel for how some parents feel about APS. So far we are still new to Kenmore but find the staff responsive (but we are heavily involved and pay for a lot of external activities for our kid).[/quote]

Not exactly. The neighborhood where the school is located, s of 50, and all the way down to Columbia Pike but west of 4MR are zoned to WL. Only a small number of Kenmore PUs are zoned Wakefield. [/quote]

The single family neighborhoods north of 50 zoned to Kenmore are zoned to Yorktown. South of 50, most of Kenmore (prob around 80-90%) are zoned to W-L, and the remainder, mostly the single family homes near Barcroft ES are zoned to Wakefield. [/quote]

This is incorrect. There are Single Family neighborhoods north of 50 that go to Kenmore, and then are zoned to WL[/quote]

Yes, the Ashlawn PUs are now split between YHS and WL, and Barrett PUs are zoned WL. Majority of Kenmore kids, N or S, go to WL and a the remainder are split between YHS and Wakefield.

Anyway, our kid and the ones in our neighborhood, past and present, have had good experiences at Kenmore. We don’t hear a lot of complaints, honestly. And nobody we know in real life has pulled their kid to private or moved away to escape, not even the ones whose kids went to ATS for ES, and these are families who could do so in a heartbeat. In fact, we do know a few kids who have transferred in, either to stay with ES friends or for the arts program.

It’s always so surprising to me it read on here about it being “scary” or there being a lot of bullying. I just don’t hear that in real life. [/quote]

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