Anonymous
07/07/2025 14:00
Subject: Aps title 1
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:ATS is title 1 now???????
I found this thread today and I saw no evidence that ATS is now Title I.
As an ATS family, I don't think that would dissuade us or most of our cohort from attending. It's a diverse school (we're a mixed race family) where my kids have friends of varying backgrounds they wouldn't have met at our S Arlington school (they'd be grouped into the 2E Gifted school w/in school group, which is mostly wealthy white kids). If APS wants to make ATs Title I and add it to the CEP group, so much the better. Smaller classes AND free breakfast/lunch? Awesome.
Don’t forget you also get to pick 10 free books mailed to you every year.
Yep. We got 20 free books since I have two kids there. My girls loved picking the books and even picked a few books for my three year old. This is a free program run by a nonprofit in case some of you out there freak out and think that we are getting free books from your tax dollars. The nice thing about ATS is we have great teachers and admin. So they find these programs for the school.
Anonymous
07/07/2025 13:58
Subject: Aps title 1
Anonymous wrote:Ats going downhill yikes
No it hasn’t. Don’t get too excited. ATS’ scores and demographics haven’t changed. APS adjusted its formula for determining title 1 status.
Anonymous
07/07/2025 13:55
Subject: Aps title 1
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I’m confused. People are gloating that title 1 status will ruin ATS but also mad that fleet and innovation won’t suffer the same fate.
It's not a punishment to apply for Title 1 status when the threshold is met. It feels unfair if (IF, bc we don't know) some schools that qualify are getting the extra resources, while other similarly situated schools are not. Make sense?
This.
And then we need to ask WHY they are applying for ATS and not the others? Very unfair.
So ask.
Plan to. Thanks, sweetie.
Did anyone find out if Fleet or Innovation are applying for Title 1 status and will have more teachers next year? I didn't see job postings to indicate a change, if so.
APS only cares about poverty when it affects ATS.
Again, each school decides whether to apply for title 1 or not. Arlington Public schools changed the criteria for determining what constitutes a title 1 school because Arlington is becoming more expensive. Because of that ATS qualified and decided to apply for title 1 status. Its demographics didn’t change. That’s it. Now go find something better to do in life or stay bitter
Anonymous
07/07/2025 13:48
Subject: Aps title 1
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:ATS parent. Some of you don't know anything about ATS and it shows.
I've never met a really wealthy parent at ATS. There are alot of immigrants families. Asian, South Asian, Hispanic, Middle Eastern, African. White families are in the minority.
ATS has two bilingual family specialists. The one who's been there the longest speaks Spanish.
PP is right about the immigrant families taking school very seriously. Almost the entire school turns out for school events. Low-income families are very involved.
Admin expects parent involvement and and does not coddle parents.
This is not true.
It is true. Pull up the report card. It’s a majority minority school. If you are talking about white families being the majority ethnic group that’s different. This is Arlington. White families make up 32%, Black 20%, Hispanics 11%, Asians 30% and other 10%. These are approximations. You can pull up the report card for more details
Anonymous
07/07/2025 13:42
Subject: Aps title 1
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:ATS is successful because of the immigrant families there. They want homework and good behavior. They show up to school on the first day with flowers for the teachers and dress to the nines for every event. They expect their kids to be successful.
Which immigrants
Ethiopian, Eritrean, Mongolian, Bolivian, El Salvadoran...
Actually, that’s not quite correct. ATS is unique for Arlington in that it has a very small (~10%) contingent of Hispanic students (made up from many different countries, not just one or two), and 30% Asian population. That’s the largest percentage Asian of any school in Arlington, as far as I know.
And yes, all are very motivated, across all ethnic backgrounds.
Doesn’t sound like they need title I dollars.
So motivated and poor = not deserving of support and dollars??
Only unmotivated should get dollars?
Seems like APS is making the determination that only the motivated AND poor get additional funds. Unmotivated and poor? We don’t need to apply.
No APS doesn’t make that determination. Schools can choose to apply for title 1 funding or not. Get it?
Anonymous
07/07/2025 13:41
Subject: Re:Aps title 1
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I'm conflicted: I'm very wealthy and my kid made the K lottery for this year and I love that ATS is so in demand and held in high esteem and I can sort of brag we made it but
On the other hand, since they are now title 1, I'm terrified my child will be in the same school and classroom as poor brown children.
The poor brown children's moms make amazing food and you get to try it once a year. There is no way that ATS will decline its waitlist and yes, we can pin it to 2030. I'll still be wasting time on this hell site.
Yes. International Night is the best event at ATS. We absolutely love it. And yes I get that the OP was being sarcastic.
Anonymous
07/07/2025 13:40
Subject: Aps title 1
Anonymous wrote:Idk why you all care about ATS. It’s not like their students perform better in middle and high school. It’s the best slice of government cheese… but it’s still government cheese.
You are obsessed with posting this every time ATS comes up. Not all of us are rich enough to afford private school. Get it? You can go and be all high and mighty somewhere else.
Anonymous
07/07/2025 13:38
Subject: Aps title 1
Anonymous wrote:Never change Arlington. 8 pages of liberals angry that a successful school serving low income immigrants, enough to be Title 1, will get more federal money to serve low income immigrants.
Yep. They are just seething with jealously. Just an FYI - majority of the Asians in the school are Mongolian and almost all come from the VPI program. Same with the Ethiopians/Eritrians. So please don’t use the successful rich minority card.
Anonymous
07/07/2025 13:36
Subject: Re:Aps title 1
Anonymous wrote:I'm conflicted: I'm very wealthy and my kid made the K lottery for this year and I love that ATS is so in demand and held in high esteem and I can sort of brag we made it but
On the other hand, since they are now title 1, I'm terrified my child will be in the same school and classroom as poor brown children.
It’s not like the demographics at ATS suddenly changed. The calculation is what’s different. There are a lot of poor brown kids at ATS. That’s part of the appeal. They come from families that care about hard work.
Anonymous
07/07/2025 13:35
Subject: Aps title 1
Anonymous wrote:ATS is successful because of the immigrant families there. They want homework and good behavior. They show up to school on the first day with flowers for the teachers and dress to the nines for every event. They expect their kids to be successful.
Yes this is why income doesn’t matter at ATS. Immigrant families push their kids to the max. The people at ATS who keep complaining about too much homework and the uniform are the high income white parents. As a high income immigrant family, I wish there were less of these around. In my opinion and the opinion of many immigrant families no matter the income, ATS is actually too easy. They need to push kids even more. Uniforms would be great too. The only ppl against uniforms in ATS are the higher income white families.
Anonymous
07/07/2025 13:30
Subject: Aps title 1
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Title 1 status will deter some families from applying. The families who choose between private schools and ATS. So the school will become more and more low income. Wait and see.
That hasn’t happened at Campbell and they are a title I option school.
Campbell doesn’t have the same waitlist as ATS. Campbell draws a lot of kids from other Title 1 schools.
So does ATS. Look at the transfer report.
People choose ATS because they have high achievement with a really diverse student population.
ATS pulls the low AND higher income kids from those schools. The same is not true for Campbell.
Got it. So you think ATS will
Decline because affluent parents will not sent their kids to ATS if it’s a title I school. And achievement will
Decline because poor kids can’t learn.
You don’t think achievement is tied to SES? Then why do people complain that many of our SA schools are majority low income while NA schools are wealthy? I mean, if it doesn’t matter…
Of course it is. ATS has minimized achievement gaps for years. Title I gives them more resources to serve their students. A family in an expensive house in green valley will not be turned off by it being a title I school. It just proves what ATS families have know for years.
You are naive if you don’t think Title 1 status will turn some families away.
We have a household income of 400k. Our kids are at ATS. We sent them there for the income diversity and well as the racial diversity. We are happy that it is a title 1 school now because the school will get even more resources. So are all the parents we know that are high income at ATS. ATS attracts families who want a high achieving school with diversity. The waiting list is super long so we aren’t concerned at all that families with high educational expectations suddenly stop applying to ATS. Also are you trying to imply that low income students are not smart? That’s not how it works at ATS.
Anonymous
07/07/2025 13:26
Subject: Aps title 1
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Title 1 status will deter some families from applying. The families who choose between private schools and ATS. So the school will become more and more low income. Wait and see.
That hasn’t happened at Campbell and they are a title I option school.
Campbell doesn’t have the same waitlist as ATS. Campbell draws a lot of kids from other Title 1 schools.
So does ATS. Look at the transfer report.
People choose ATS because they have high achievement with a really diverse student population.
ATS pulls the low AND higher income kids from those schools. The same is not true for Campbell.
Got it. So you think ATS will
Decline because affluent parents will not sent their kids to ATS if it’s a title I school. And achievement will
Decline because poor kids can’t learn.
You don’t think achievement is tied to SES? Then why do people complain that many of our SA schools are majority low income while NA schools are wealthy? I mean, if it doesn’t matter…
Yes. Achievement is tied to SES but not in ATS. ATS has successfully managed to close the achievement gap. You can easily find this in the school’s report card on their website. But instead you are a bitter and pathetic loser with nothing better to do.
Anonymous
07/07/2025 13:23
Subject: Aps title 1
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:OP, this is a good thing for ATS and APS. They’re hiring 3 new teachers with more Title I funding.
But why not apply for other schools? Why wait until 50% when they’re eligible at 40%?
Because neighborhood schools on cusp can easily tip the other way.
OR they know many of the higher income families in the neighborhood won’t send their kids to a Title 1 school, making it even more low-performing.
+1 ATS won’t have that problem.
They will if performance starts to decline. And this application for Title 1 makes it seem like things are heading in that direction.
You people are hilarious. Arlington county changed the way title 1 is calculated because Arlington is getting more expensive. Therefore more schools can qualify as title 1. ATS performance isnt declining. You can see performance stats on their website. Not everything is a conspiracy theory. With a genocide going on and get more other insane things happening in the world, people like you who have nothing else in their life are getting tiresome.
Anonymous
07/07/2025 13:19
Subject: Aps title 1
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Haters gonna hate. ATS is a great school. Title I status means it will get a few more resources to do even more for its students.
It seems odd that a school who's population changes year to year could be a Title 1 designated school. Couldn't they lose it the next year?
ATS is only becoming more low income, not the other way around.
A percentage of seats are reserved for VPI students
How can you possibly state that as fact when the lottery is blind?
Anonymous
07/05/2025 18:14
Subject: Aps title 1
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Two neighborhood schools losing their title I funds.
https://www.arlnow.com/2025/06/20/two-aps-schools-lose-title-i-designations-while-another-joins-the-list/
As a former abingdon parent that is not good, the schools is massive and needs all the help it can get.
How can a CEP school drop out of Title I in one school year? And why does Hoffman Boston get kicked off (43.02% Free and Reduced Meals) while ATS gets more support? (35.26% FARM)
https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/sites/57/2025/03/FreeReduced-20242025.pdf
ATS is going downhill and they need more resources to fix it. Letting it fail would be too embarrassing.
How is it going downhill? Low on the waitlist so more info is helpful.
I would like to know how it's going downhill too. We are trying to decided between the school we are zoned for and ATS. The folks I know that have kids in elementary either wanted to get in or they are in and I've only hear positive things. Would love to hear how it is considered to be on a downward track now.