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Anonymous wrote:We are east of Glebe and rejoined from Fleet to Drew. Almost the entire neighborhood goes private. 3/4 kids in poverty and a large percent below grade level. No thanks. And spare me the you saved money by buying near Columbia Pike so you are condemned to failing schools and overwhelming AH. Spare me your all are welcome signs from North Arlington. Langston should mirror CP.

Sorry county is full. Get your neighbors to go to the school and FARMs will drop.

This response is why it’s unacceptable to force boundary changes that don’t involve upper north schools. This attitude of “sucks to be the rest of you who aren’t as wealthy as we are. Thanks for taking the hit so we can all feel better.”

Yep. NIMBY-ism at its finest.

What type of boundary changes do you want? If you want to significantly change #s it will require significant bussing.

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This is the first time these numbers have been reported since 2019, so we are seeing the impact of the school moves, pandemic changes, etc. Barrett, Barcroft, and Drew are all significantly higher.

BARRETT 74.91%
RANDOLPH 74.88%
BARCROFT 74.84%
CARLIN SPRINGS 74.82%
DREW 74.78%

The reason these schools are so different the previous years is because they actually stopped counting FRL kids at these schools. They are part of the program where ALL kids get free lunch and if you actually try to apply online you can not apply for these schools. seeing how close these numbers are to each other I am guess that they take an average based on the number of students to be roughly around 75%.

Citation?

My kid goes to one of these schools and when I tried to apply for FRL I was not able to?

So you’re just guessing at how they came up with the %?

Anonymous wrote:The numbers of "total students" in this sheet are inaccurate for many of the schools. Makes me doubt the accuracy of the percentages.

Check APS's own "Monthly Enrollment" data from Oct 31, 2022 (Total amount of students by grade/school).

https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/U-Mem_281_Membership_Summary-All.pdf


Compare it to its own "FARMS" data sheet, supposedly pulled from the system on the exact same date. Most of the school enrollments are different - W-L's enrollment is somehow off by 300 (!) students.

https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/FREE-REDUCED-OCTOBER-31-2022.pdf

Combine that with the top 5 FARMS schools all being within a percentage point of each other, and this sheet seems suspect. Not that the problems stated in much of this thread aren't real - but the data can't be accurate. Not sure whether this is intentional, or incompetent, but either way, something's up.

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Anonymous wrote:We are east of Glebe and rejoined from Fleet to Drew. Almost the entire neighborhood goes private. 3/4 kids in poverty and a large percent below grade level. No thanks. And spare me the you saved money by buying near Columbia Pike so you are condemned to failing schools and overwhelming AH. Spare me your all are welcome signs from North Arlington. Langston should mirror CP.

Sorry county is full. Get your neighbors to go to the school and FARMs will drop.

This response is why it’s unacceptable to force boundary changes that don’t involve upper north schools. This attitude of “sucks to be the rest of you who aren’t as wealthy as we are. Thanks for taking the hit so we can all feel better.”

Yep. NIMBY-ism at its finest.

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Anonymous wrote:We are east of Glebe and rejoined from Fleet to Drew. Almost the entire neighborhood goes private. 3/4 kids in poverty and a large percent below grade level. No thanks. And spare me the you saved money by buying near Columbia Pike so you are condemned to failing schools and overwhelming AH. Spare me your all are welcome signs from North Arlington. Langston should mirror CP.

Sorry county is full. Get your neighbors to go to the school and FARMs will drop.

This response is why it’s unacceptable to force boundary changes that don’t involve upper north schools. This attitude of “sucks to be the rest of you who aren’t as wealthy as we are. Thanks for taking the hit so we can all feel better.”

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Anonymous wrote:The most embarrassing is HB Woodlawn at 12%. There’s no reason for that to be lower than the county average.

Yeah that seems like the easiest thing to fix. They could easily allocate more HB seats to the high FARMS schools and earmark those seats for FARMS kids

Someone once told me that the HB hours are a problem, because it gets out much later. If you're relying on older kids to look after younger kids after school, it's not an option.

I’m 100% sure that’s intentional, another moat around their public funded private scchool.

How does that work? They start later than ALL middle and high schools? After all the research how beneficial a later start is for older kids, it just adds to the disparity of the program.

Admin at the HB info night last week said the start time is not intentional, it's directly related to transportation issues. They're the last bus run after they drop off the rest of the elementary and secondary kids.

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Anonymous wrote:We are east of Glebe and rejoined from Fleet to Drew. Almost the entire neighborhood goes private. 3/4 kids in poverty and a large percent below grade level. No thanks. And spare me the you saved money by buying near Columbia Pike so you are condemned to failing schools and overwhelming AH. Spare me your all are welcome signs from North Arlington. Langston should mirror CP.

Sorry county is full. Get your neighbors to go to the school and FARMs will drop.

This response is why it’s unacceptable to force boundary changes that don’t involve upper north schools. This attitude of “sucks to be the rest of you who aren’t as wealthy as we are. Thanks for taking the hit so we can all feel better.”

Anonymous wrote:We are east of Glebe and rejoined from Fleet to Drew. Almost the entire neighborhood goes private. 3/4 kids in poverty and a large percent below grade level. No thanks. And spare me the you saved money by buying near Columbia Pike so you are condemned to failing schools and overwhelming AH. Spare me your all are welcome signs from North Arlington. Langston should mirror CP.

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Anonymous wrote:The most embarrassing is HB Woodlawn at 12%. There’s no reason for that to be lower than the county average.

Yeah that seems like the easiest thing to fix. They could easily allocate more HB seats to the high FARMS schools and earmark those seats for FARMS kids

Someone once told me that the HB hours are a problem, because it gets out much later. If you're relying on older kids to look after younger kids after school, it's not an option.

I’m 100% sure that’s intentional, another moat around their public funded private scchool.

How does that work? They start later than ALL middle and high schools? After all the research how beneficial a later start is for older kids, it just adds to the disparity of the program.

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Anonymous wrote:We are east of Glebe and rejoined from Fleet to Drew. Almost the entire neighborhood goes private. 3/4 kids in poverty and a large percent below grade level. No thanks. And spare me the you saved money by buying near Columbia Pike so you are condemned to failing schools and overwhelming AH. Spare me your all are welcome signs from North Arlington. Langston should mirror CP.

Sorry county is full. Get your neighbors to go to the school and FARMs will drop.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm really surprised Williamsburg is so low. I know it draws from a very wealthy area, but 2.43% is so low - especially compared to Hamm and Swanson. Did Hamm take all the "poor" people from Williamsburg when it opened?

Also, my kids went to Glebe - they are in HS now. Their numbers are much lower than they used to be, too.

Very surprised about Williamsburg too. I taught there in the 90’s and the population in poverty was much higher then, mostly from busing students from the Clarendon area near Key elementary. I wonder if this is due to boundary change ir due to the fact that Clarendon has gotten so gentrified?

Anonymous wrote:We are east of Glebe and rejoined from Fleet to Drew. Almost the entire neighborhood goes private. 3/4 kids in poverty and a large percent below grade level. No thanks. And spare me the you saved money by buying near Columbia Pike so you are condemned to failing schools and overwhelming AH. Spare me your all are welcome signs from North Arlington. Langston should mirror CP.