Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are in a similar boat. I heard that Churchill Road parents are over the top competitive. Isn’t all of McLean over the top with enrichment and pressure to do well? Are Churchill Road parent more so than other schools? I have no idea.

I have no first hand experience, I don’t know what to do. I wish I could understand better thee differences between the school cultures.

I know Churchill Road has less students than it used to because all the schools in the area now also have Level IV and more kids are staying at their base school. I also know they lost many students to private due to the pandemic.

Churchill parent here with 2 kids in AAP. Before Covid and before all the zoning changes, many more families sent their kids to Churchill for the AAP center. Longfellow used to be the AAP center for middle school so all the kids used to go there after AAP. Kent Gardens is zoned for Churchill and some of the strongest and smartest AAP kids came from there. Now they are zoned for Longfellow and McLean High so few students opt to come to Churchill. Churchill no longer feels like a center as only very few kids come from Spring Hill and Kent Gardens. If I were a Kent Gardens parent, I would not want to send my kid for elementary for the child to have to go to a different middle school than the rest of the AAP center. There were 3 full AAP classes at Churchill in my son’s grade. That was the class around when Cooper also became an AAP middle school and not everyone would go to Longfellow AAP. Now there is only one AAP class in third grade.

Fcps seems to want to do away with centers.

Wait I don't follow this. Churchill kids don't go to Longfellow and McLean high? Where do they go to?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are in a similar boat. I heard that Churchill Road parents are over the top competitive. Isn’t all of McLean over the top with enrichment and pressure to do well? Are Churchill Road parent more so than other schools? I have no idea.

I have no first hand experience, I don’t know what to do. I wish I could understand better thee differences between the school cultures.

I know Churchill Road has less students than it used to because all the schools in the area now also have Level IV and more kids are staying at their base school. I also know they lost many students to private due to the pandemic.

Churchill parent here with 2 kids in AAP. Before Covid and before all the zoning changes, many more families sent their kids to Churchill for the AAP center. Longfellow used to be the AAP center for middle school so all the kids used to go there after AAP. Kent Gardens is zoned for Churchill and some of the strongest and smartest AAP kids came from there. Now they are zoned for Longfellow and McLean High so few students opt to come to Churchill. Churchill no longer feels like a center as only very few kids come from Spring Hill and Kent Gardens. If I were a Kent Gardens parent, I would not want to send my kid for elementary for the child to have to go to a different middle school than the rest of the AAP center. There were 3 full AAP classes at Churchill in my son’s grade. That was the class around when Cooper also became an AAP middle school and not everyone would go to Longfellow AAP. Now there is only one AAP class in third grade.

Fcps seems to want to do away with centers.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are in a similar boat. I heard that Churchill Road parents are over the top competitive. Isn’t all of McLean over the top with enrichment and pressure to do well? Are Churchill Road parent more so than other schools? I have no idea.

I have no first hand experience, I don’t know what to do. I wish I could understand better thee differences between the school cultures.

I know Churchill Road has less students than it used to because all the schools in the area now also have Level IV and more kids are staying at their base school. I also know they lost many students to private due to the pandemic.

Churchill parent here with 2 kids in AAP. Before Covid and before all the zoning changes, many more families sent their kids to Churchill for the AAP center. Longfellow used to be the AAP center for middle school so all the kids used to go there after AAP. Kent Gardens is zoned for Churchill and some of the strongest and smartest AAP kids came from there. Now they are zoned for Longfellow and McLean High so few students opt to come to Churchill. Churchill no longer feels like a center as only very few kids come from Spring Hill and Kent Gardens. If I were a Kent Gardens parent, I would not want to send my kid for elementary for the child to have to go to a different middle school than the rest of the AAP center. There were 3 full AAP classes at Churchill in my son’s grade. That was the class around when Cooper also became an AAP middle school and not everyone would go to Longfellow AAP. Now there is only one AAP class in third grade.

Fcps seems to want to do away with centers.

Or FCPS could let the KG students who attend Churchill choose whether to go to Cooper and Langley. It would help alleviate overcrowding at Mclean HS. I chose KG vs. Churchill for my own child for a variety of reasons.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are in a similar boat. I heard that Churchill Road parents are over the top competitive. Isn’t all of McLean over the top with enrichment and pressure to do well? Are Churchill Road parent more so than other schools? I have no idea.

I have no first hand experience, I don’t know what to do. I wish I could understand better thee differences between the school cultures.

I know Churchill Road has less students than it used to because all the schools in the area now also have Level IV and more kids are staying at their base school. I also know they lost many students to private due to the pandemic.

Churchill parent here with 2 kids in AAP. Before Covid and before all the zoning changes, many more families sent their kids to Churchill for the AAP center. Longfellow used to be the AAP center for middle school so all the kids used to go there after AAP. Kent Gardens is zoned for Churchill and some of the strongest and smartest AAP kids came from there. Now they are zoned for Longfellow and McLean High so few students opt to come to Churchill. Churchill no longer feels like a center as only very few kids come from Spring Hill and Kent Gardens. If I were a Kent Gardens parent, I would not want to send my kid for elementary for the child to have to go to a different middle school than the rest of the AAP center. There were 3 full AAP classes at Churchill in my son’s grade. That was the class around when Cooper also became an AAP middle school and not everyone would go to Longfellow AAP. Now there is only one AAP class in third grade.

Fcps seems to want to do away with centers.

Anonymous wrote:According to the FCPS capacity dashboard, there are 23 kids in-boundary for Spring Hill at Churchill Road this year. That's not a huge number at all considering the number of LLIV-eligible kids at Spring Hill, which is a big school.