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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To add to the above info, Meridian HS, the school for Falls Church City is the smallest high school in Northern Virginia. So if you want to save some money, the public schools from middle through high school are very small.

The only smaller public school is HB Woodlawn in Arlington (grades 6-12 and about 70 students a grade), but entry is by lottery only, and the waitlist is hundreds of students long.[/quote]

I live in Arlington so no firsthand experience, but I’ve heard FCC schools referred to as basically a “public private.” But you pay tuition in the form of housing and property taxes. Which is why posters are saying to give the public schools a glance if you’re considering living there, but otherwise don’t pay the premium only to go with Catholic school.

I think a lot of the kids at St. James come from surrounding areas where the public schools aren’t as highly rated as opposed to within FCC but that is totally my anecdotal knowledge. Perhaps someone whose kids attend there could say otherwise.[/quote]

I know Catholics in FCC that send their kids to St. James. [/quote]

We are among those Catholics that live in FCC and send our children to Saint James (and yes there are a large number of us). We started out in the FCC public schools (having purchased in FCC because of the schools’ reputation) but did not have a good experience so switched to Saint James and have absolutely loved the school and the accompanying close knit community.

I do regret that we paid FCC housing prices for a school system we ended up not using, but on the other hand not sure that we would have gotten slots at Saint James without priority as residents within the parish boundaries.[/quote]

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