Anonymous wrote:The only way for Haycock to reduce numbers by eliminating AAP students would be to give up the center. Haycock will never do that.

This may occur or it may not. No one really knows yet as the proposal has not been presented to the School Board.

Falls Church City Public School

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Anonymous wrote:Haycock...but wait until the spring to be sure that the house you're considering is still in the boundaries.

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You would also know about the planned AAP Center changes.

If you are zoned for Haycock, the center changes won't really affect you. Your child will go to Haycock regardless. The planned changes will not noticably decrease the AAP numbers. All that will change is which schools feed into Haycock.

I disagree. Only 276 students from other schools are currently at Haycock. The other 700 are base school students. The changes will have to dramatically decrease the AAP numbers. There is really no other way.

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The task force will likely agree.

Look at the task force proposal. It moved Shrevewood, Westgate and Lemon Road students out, but Kent Gardens students in. The net loss of studentsgoing to Haycock is around 50. It does essentially nothing to help Haycock. The only way for Haycock to reduce numbers by eliminating AAP students would be to give up the center. Haycock will never do that. The reputation would suffer because they'd lose a lot of resources and their test scores would go down. It's interesting that there is so much animosity against the non-Haycock base students, yet they are a large part of the high test scores.

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It appears that if the student population is still way over the max capacity of the school, and most of the sudents are base students, then they are going to need to move some base school students out. Has anyone heard if this is being considered?

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Anonymous wrote:Haycock...but wait until the spring to be sure that the house you're considering is still in the boundaries.

+1

You would also know about the planned AAP Center changes.

If you are zoned for Haycock, the center changes won't really affect you. Your child will go to Haycock regardless. The planned changes will not noticably decrease the AAP numbers. All that will change is which schools feed into Haycock.

I disagree. Only 276 students from other schools are currently at Haycock. The other 700 are base school students. The changes will have to dramatically decrease the AAP numbers. There is really no other way.

+1

The task force will likely agree.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Haycock...but wait until the spring to be sure that the house you're considering is still in the boundaries.

+1

You would also know about the planned AAP Center changes.

If you are zoned for Haycock, the center changes won't really affect you. Your child will go to Haycock regardless. The planned changes will not noticably decrease the AAP numbers. All that will change is which schools feed into Haycock.

I disagree. Only 276 students from other schools are currently at Haycock. The other 700 are base school students. The changes will have to dramatically decrease the AAP numbers. There is really no other way.

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Anonymous wrote:Haycock...but wait until the spring to be sure that the house you're considering is still in the boundaries.

+1

You would also know about the planned AAP Center changes.

If you are zoned for Haycock, the center changes won't really affect you. Your child will go to Haycock regardless. The planned changes will not noticably decrease the AAP numbers. All that will change is which schools feed into Haycock.

Anonymous wrote:Haycock...but wait until the spring to be sure that the house you're considering is still in the boundaries.

+1

You would also know about the planned AAP Center changes.

Haycock...but wait until the spring to be sure that the house you're considering is still in the boundaries.

Haycock.

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Anonymous wrote:One thing to consider - and this may not bother you but it does bother some - is the way elem grades are broken up in FCC. I believe it's 1 school for K-2 then another for 3-6. I've heard that is a pain when you have more than 1 kid.

Actually it's

K-1
2-4
5-7
8-12

As of next year (they are renovating/expanding TJ Elementary), it will be:
K-1
2-5
6-8
9-12

We love the way it is. I love having my K girl only with K and 1 (at school, recess, aftercare, the bus, the summer camps). It is such a nurturing place and the kids get a chance to stay "younger", I think. Can be a pain with both kids, but it seems pretty coordinated between the elementary schools (i.e. only 1 PTA, not 2. The buses come/go at pretty much the same time.). Happy that the 5th graders will be moving back down to elementary and the 8th graders back to Middle school though.

We only have little ones, but people in the neighborhood seem to like the schools, all the way up. One benefit of the small schools, is that people really know each other (from parents to teachers to administrators) - which I think helps in the behavior of the kids. The sports teams don't seem very good - but it is easy to get on the teams And we do take advantage of all the things in town - we often walk to Cherry Hill park for the festivals and events (probably 1 per month), the farmers market of course, and the restaurants all the time. Now that the kids are in school, we run into people we know all the time. I think you can do a lot of that from the right over the border (like past West on Great Falls) but it becomes unwalkable pretty soon after that.

OP, we had the same choice and picked Haycock despite the overcrowding. The FCC schools are very small and not diverse. We were looking for more cultural diversity. It is 2012 so it should be given but in FCC it isn't. Since it's so small, everything tends to be expensive too. I will also add that AAP was a draw for us. You can find houses in Haycock that border FCC if you want the best of both. Good luck.

Anonymous wrote:One thing to consider - and this may not bother you but it does bother some - is the way elem grades are broken up in FCC. I believe it's 1 school for K-2 then another for 3-6. I've heard that is a pain when you have more than 1 kid.

Actually it's

K-1
2-4
5-7
8-12