Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow I’m shocked that Cooper is so low. I’m sure there are a lot of disappointed McLean parents.

I’m wondering if it has more to do with what high school the middle school feeds into. For example, Carson feeds into Sluth Lakes. South Lakes isn’t known for being a great high school, so maybe the parents encourage their kids to try go to TJ to get out of South Lakes.

What high school does Cooper feed into?

Cooper primarily feeds Langley.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow I’m shocked that Cooper is so low. I’m sure there are a lot of disappointed McLean parents.

I’m wondering if it has more to do with what high school the middle school feeds into. For example, Carson feeds into Sluth Lakes. South Lakes isn’t known for being a great high school, so maybe the parents encourage their kids to try go to TJ to get out of South Lakes.

What high school does Cooper feed into?

Carson feeds into Chantilly, South Lakes, Westfields and Oakton. The majority of the school is Westfields and Oakton. PP is probably right that more kids feed Chantilly than SLHS— all of AAPmfor Franklin Farm west of FFX Co Parkway, Armfield Farm, Chantilly Highlands, Franklin Glen, etc.

And Carson kids end up at TJ because they are HIGHLY motivated to attend TJ. Not because they are avoiding SLHS.

Also, this is last years list. I wish people would flag the dates on these year old threads. Or just start new ones.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow I’m shocked that Cooper is so low. I’m sure there are a lot of disappointed McLean parents.

I’m wondering if it has more to do with what high school the middle school feeds into. For example, Carson feeds into Sluth Lakes. South Lakes isn’t known for being a great high school, so maybe the parents encourage their kids to try go to TJ to get out of South Lakes.

What high school does Cooper feed into?

South Lakes is fine. Our DS will end up there, unless he goes to TJ but he is in first grade so I am not worried about that right now. The IB program is very good. The people in our neighborhood are fine with their kids at South Lakes. I think that any child that is motivated and invested in school will do just fine there. And no one that I know of from our neighborhood has gone to TJ.

Glad you have high school all worked out. For your first grader. And shocked ... just shocked... you don’t know any TJ kids.

Anonymous wrote:Thanks for posting, op!

A year ago... this isn’t current data.

And yeah, if your kid doesn’t do IB, SLHS sucks.

Anonymous wrote:The MAIN feeder for South Lakes is Hughes, so your theory doesn't make sense.

I didn’t say it was a theory. I said I’m wondering...

The MAIN feeder for South Lakes is Hughes, so your theory doesn't make sense.

And a not-small portion of Carson feeds to Chantilly.

At least half of Carson fields to Westfield, not South Lakes.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow I’m shocked that Cooper is so low. I’m sure there are a lot of disappointed McLean parents.

I’m wondering if it has more to do with what high school the middle school feeds into. For example, Carson feeds into Sluth Lakes. South Lakes isn’t known for being a great high school, so maybe the parents encourage their kids to try go to TJ to get out of South Lakes.

What high school does Cooper feed into?

South Lakes is fine. Our DS will end up there, unless he goes to TJ but he is in first grade so I am not worried about that right now. The IB program is very good. The people in our neighborhood are fine with their kids at South Lakes. I think that any child that is motivated and invested in school will do just fine there. And no one that I know of from our neighborhood has gone to TJ.

Anonymous wrote:Wow I’m shocked that Cooper is so low. I’m sure there are a lot of disappointed McLean parents.

I’m wondering if it has more to do with what high school the middle school feeds into. For example, Carson feeds into Sluth Lakes. South Lakes isn’t known for being a great high school, so maybe the parents encourage their kids to try go to TJ to get out of South Lakes.

What high school does Cooper feed into?

Thanks for posting, op!

Where can one find information for TJ admission statistics by middle school for the class of 2023?

Anonymous wrote:Wow I’m shocked that Cooper is so low. I’m sure there are a lot of disappointed McLean parents.

Cooper had zero admitted last year... This year there are 8... Next year the number will be much bigger since all AAP students stay at Cooper instead of going to Longfellow or Kilmer starting this year.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow I’m shocked that Cooper is so low. I’m sure there are a lot of disappointed McLean parents.

Remember that this class of AAP 8th graders were allowed to choose between Longfellow and Cooper. So many cooper base kids
Would be in the Longfellow numbers. I’m sure next year will be different.

Probably so. Same at Kilmer. The largest numbers of TJ students reside in the Oakton, McLean and Langley HS attendance areas, followed by Chantilly. The Langley pyramid 8th grade AAP students are split among Cooper, Kilmer and Longfellow this year. Next year they’ll all be at Cooper.