Anonymous
04/26/2012 12:50
Subject: Falls Church Schools
My kids are at Belvedere and we've been very happy with it. The staff all know who the kids are and seem to like them, know who I am (even though I work F/T and am not at the school terribly often). Not as many extra curriculars as some of the schools in more affluent areas. The GT center is one of the smaller ones, which has created some issues (same group of kids in class together for 3 years), but overall, it's worked for us.
The older one will be at Glasgow next year, so we'll see how that goes.
The older one will be at Glasgow next year, so we'll see how that goes.
Anonymous
04/19/2012 00:04
Subject: Falls Church Schools
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Horrible
Not true at all, but enjoy your free, DCUM-enabled racism.
http://www.greatschools.org/virginia/falls-church/518-Stuart-High-School/
http://www.greatschools.org/modperl/achievement/va/518#from..HeaderLink
Students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch program 49%
http://www.greatschools.org/cgi-bin/va/other/445#students
Anonymous
04/18/2012 23:43
Subject: Re:Falls Church Schools
I would send me kid to Stuart in a heartbeat if we weren't happy with our base school (we are in the Annandale pyramid). Both Stuart and Annandale are great IB schools, diverse, and undeserving of the nasty comment above. My son is GT Center eligible and while we chose to send him to our base school instead, we know lots of folks at Glasgow that like the school. They are a GT Center, have what's left of the immersion program in MS (funding cuts really gutted it a few years back at the MS level) and are an active IBMYP school. Don't know much about Glen Forest, but they have Level IV GT, and are a true neighborhood school if that helps.
Anonymous
04/18/2012 11:43
Subject: Re:Falls Church Schools
One school in 22041 receiving public recognition:
http://commweb.fcps.edu/newsreleases/newsrelease.cfm?newsid=1947
http://commweb.fcps.edu/newsreleases/newsrelease.cfm?newsid=1947
Anonymous
04/18/2012 11:40
Subject: Falls Church Schools
Anonymous wrote:Horrible
Not true at all, but enjoy your free, DCUM-enabled racism.
Anonymous
04/18/2012 11:23
Subject: Falls Church Schools
Anonymous wrote:If we had to send a child to high school right now I'm not sure what we would do.
Are you close enough to Marshall to pupil place for IB?
Anonymous
04/18/2012 08:51
Subject: Falls Church Schools
I live in 22042 (FC High School cluster) and don't know much about the Stuart cluster. But FC and Stuart are both in the lower half of Ffx Co schools when it comes to test scores, etc. and I believe both have higher rates of ESL, free and reduced lunch students and many people think those two things automatically mean that a school is not as good.
If we had to send a child to high school right now I'm not sure what we would do. Ideally we'd move somewhere with schools that are clearly better, but that costs more $ of course. We have a toddler and have looked a bit at our elementary school and middle school and are pretty comfortable that they are fine. Depending on how old your kid is I'd look at those first - if your kid is young, the high school might be completely different by the time they are HS age. HTH
If we had to send a child to high school right now I'm not sure what we would do. Ideally we'd move somewhere with schools that are clearly better, but that costs more $ of course. We have a toddler and have looked a bit at our elementary school and middle school and are pretty comfortable that they are fine. Depending on how old your kid is I'd look at those first - if your kid is young, the high school might be completely different by the time they are HS age. HTH
Anonymous
04/18/2012 08:33
Subject: Falls Church Schools
Anonymous wrote:Horrible
Really? We're considering buying a house in the Glen Forest/Glasgow/Stuart cluster. What makes the schools horrible?
Anonymous
Anonymous
04/18/2012 08:28
Subject: Falls Church Schools
Horrible
Anonymous
04/18/2012 07:26
Subject: Falls Church Schools
How are the schools in the 22041 zip code?