Anonymous wrote:I may be selling a house near Wolftrap elementary with Cardinal hill membership early next year.

If by early next year you mean January, please PM me. I'd love to find out more!

I may be selling a house near Wolftrap elementary with Cardinal hill membership early next year.

Hi Gatova,

I will be selling my house in Vienna near Navy Federal Credit Union. I am currently updating and renovating. It is in your price range, on a culdesac, big back yard, with young families in the neighborhood. The house was build in 1979. I have more work to do but I saw your post. I would love to work with a buyer to have him/her pick out what he/she wants in the house. I love my house -- many, many fond memories. But my husband died last year and it is time for me to downsize. I just joined this group so I'm not sure if you will even see this or how to contact you.

Regina (sisfroggy)

gatova wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know of one that will be coming on the market. Owners will wait to list until early Spring but willing to show privately until then. Wolftrap/Kilmer/Marshall, and meets all your criteria.

Oops I wasn't logged in when I replied. Is there a way to private message me on here? Would love to know more. Thanks!

I pm-ed you with some info.

Anonymous wrote:I know of one that will be coming on the market. Owners will wait to list until early Spring but willing to show privately until then. Wolftrap/Kilmer/Marshall, and meets all your criteria.

Oops I wasn't logged in when I replied. Is there a way to private message me on here? Would love to know more. Thanks!

Anonymous wrote:I know of one that will be coming on the market. Owners will wait to list until early Spring but willing to show privately until then. Wolftrap/Kilmer/Marshall, and meets all your criteria.

Are they actually willing to sell if they find a buyer before then? If so, please private message me. Thanks!

I know of one that will be coming on the market. Owners will wait to list until early Spring but willing to show privately until then. Wolftrap/Kilmer/Marshall, and meets all your criteria.

Anonymous wrote:Also, many of the higher-ranked schools house AAP (gifted) centers, which will artificially inflate their average test scores while deflating those of their sending schools.

ding, ding, ding.

Schools like Cunningham and Marsh Road lose their highest kids to AAP centers (Mosby Woods and Archer). LJMS is also AAP for the middle school set that comes from Thoreau.... but that may change b/c Thoreau has just been remodeled and has extra space. I know people who choose it over Thoreau just b/c the AAP program is more established (I don't know if it is necessarily better).

Just b/c a school has 20% of the kids who get free meals or who might be minorities or eng lang. learners doesn't mean that the kids who look like yours (i.e. white, native eng. speakers, high ed. parents, not poor) get a bad education.

A 5, 6, or 7 GS rating does not mean that every kid at the school scores at the middle or slightly above on the SOLs. It means that when the high performing kids and lower performing kids are added together and averaged out... the school as a whole is right on par with the average for the state or better than the average (after all, a "5 " on GS means "on par for the middle of all students in VA"). I can understand trying to avoid a 2, 3, or 4 GS school, but it's kind of silly when you get to a 6 or 7 and you're still writing it off. By the way, those GS ratings that are currently published are based on tests taken in 2015 -- 18 mos. ago. So, you might expect that they are not entirely accurate for today.

Also, many of the higher-ranked schools house AAP (gifted) centers, which will artificially inflate their average test scores while deflating those of their sending schools.

In that case, take the scores with large doses of salt. All the schools you list here are truly excellent.

Some people don't like Luther Jackson because of its large minority population and high FARMS rates, but my DC and many others had great experiences. There are lots of threads here on LJMS.

The elementary schools you list aren't even controversial. There's lots of high-end construction in the Cunningham Park area, for example. I don't know what Great Schools bases their scores on, but if it's standardized scores, those elementary schools' catchment areas include apartment buildings where a lot of immigrants live, so language and economic factors probably skew the test scores but in no way diminish the quality of the school.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Madison, Oakton or McLean pyramids with exception of Luther Jackson, Cunningham park, freedom hill or Marshall road elementary. Houses have sold recently that would have been good fits so I know it's possible. I tried reaching out to a shouse agent but she won't tell me anything because I already have an agent. Was hoping someone from shouse might be lurking on here! Or lake vale our a house with cardinal membership. Thanks!

Are you trying to avoid brown people? Because that is what your post sounds like.

Nope, just coming from out of town so purely going by Great Schools scores. I don't have time to personally go explore schools so have to go with what I can easily access. All of the schools I listed are below a 7 on Great Schools. All for diversity and good scores.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Madison, Oakton or McLean pyramids with exception of Luther Jackson, Cunningham park, freedom hill or Marshall road elementary. Houses have sold recently that would have been good fits so I know it's possible. I tried reaching out to a shouse agent but she won't tell me anything because I already have an agent. Was hoping someone from shouse might be lurking on here! Or lake vale our a house with cardinal membership. Thanks!

Are you trying to avoid brown people? Because that is what your post sounds like.

Nope, just coming from out of town so purely going by Great Schools scores. I don't have time to personally go explore schools so have to go with what I can easily access. All of the schools I listed are below a 7 on Great Schools. All for diversity and good scores.