Great school. Smallish K class sizes with teacher and an assistant. Very active and well-funded PTO. A few years ago they bought violins for the entire 3rd grade class. It's an AAP center so some of the parents can be hyper-competitive (but that's probably true in all the McLean/Vienna/GF schools, center or not).

The facility itself is quite nice. Looks new even though it's about 10 yrs old. No trailers.

Anonymous wrote:Feeds to Cooper MS, which is a pit. Unrenovated for the last 40 years, an entire wing of trailers. Avoid if possible.

Cooper will have been fully renovated in five years.

Anonymous wrote:Feeds to Cooper MS, which is a pit. Unrenovated for the last 40 years, an entire wing of trailers. Avoid if possible.

Cooper is a wonderful school. When did you last have children go through? True, it is an old building with a permanent modular unit (not "wing of trailers"), but a building itself does not make a school.

It's alright. We moved here from Reston specifically for a better school. Honestly, I can't really say that it's that much better. Maybe I'm just underwhelmed with FCPS in general. One difference is a better funded pta and what goes along with that. The school in Reston had a warmer community vibe, though. Probably because the attendance area for CR is pretty wide. If I had my do overs, I would have spent the $ for the more expensive house on a good private school.

My children are at Colvin Run and love it. We were new to the school last year, but the school/students were very welcoming, and my children developed very well, academically. My kindergartner, especially, had a great year there.

Feeds to Cooper MS, which is a pit. Unrenovated for the last 40 years, an entire wing of trailers. Avoid if possible.

tkattan wrote:We would like for our children Grade 1 and 3 to attend Colvin Run ES. we are finding it challenging find homes for rent in the the school district. Do you have any advice to offer? Thank you

Try zillow to search for rentals. There's one on Kilby Glen Dr.

https://hotpads.com/9316-kilby-glen-dr-vienna-va-22182-tpwwjf/pad

We would like for our children Grade 1 and 3 to attend Colvin Run ES. we are finding it challenging find homes for rent in the the school district. Do you have any advice to offer? Thank you

friend was very happy with gifted pullout services in 1st and 2nd.

Anonymous wrote:Colvin Run is a wonderful school. Building is quite new (within the past five years or so), great principal and teachers, very active PTA.

School opened in 2003 and hasn't been renovated since, though it may still look new.

My neighbor (parent volunteer) said her son's K teacher was not so good with helping slower kids. Just let them fall through the cracks. But then, any school has at least one bad apple.

Colvin Run is a wonderful school. Building is quite new (within the past five years or so), great principal and teachers, very active PTA.

Average K class size was 23 students this fall and there were three classes (69 students in total in K).

http://www.fcps.edu/it/studentreporting/documents/ElmClassSizeAvg2011.pdf

http://schoolprofiles.fcps.edu/schlprfl/f?p=108:42:4442360063127100::NO:42_SCHOOL_YEAR,P42_CLUSTER_ID,P42_DIVISION_ID,P42_SCHOOL_ID:201112,1,DIVISION,

It's a fact of life that the class sizes for a school that students from Great Falls, McLean and Vienna attend are going to be bigger than class sizes in less affluent parts of the county. Flip side is that there will be an active PTA.

I don't have kids there, but had kids at a neighboring schools when Colvin Run was built. There was a lot of controversy at the time because parents in Great Falls didn't want their kids attending an elementary school south of Route 7. It's also a bit obnoxious that FCPS makes some kids assigned to Westbriar ES more or less pass by Colvin Run on the bus on their way to Westbriar. But those controversies were a number of years ago and probably forgotten by most.

http://commweb.fcps.edu/schoolprofile/profile.cfm?profile_id=017

http://www.colvinrunpto.org/

We are new to the area and we are assigned to Colvin Run. We are also looking at private schools but won't know if DC gets in for another few months. What do you like about Colvin Run? How many kids/classes are in K? Is the PTA active?