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Anonymous wrote:Take the spot at ATS. Really great focus on creating a school community, great counselors to support kids, along with unparalleled academic achievement in APS for all subgroups.

It's the APS private school, with all the affluence benefits of choosing the right sorority/fraternity. Which is why it is particularly attractive to better off North Arl. But that is still entirely different than whether it's the right fit for a kid who has at least social awkwardness ... unless you're claiming ATS bubble people are just better humans, including taking in society's weirdos.

What a silly and inaccurate assertion. ATS is 37% economically disadvantaged, 37.3% English learners and only 34.3% white.

By comparison, Cardinal, OPs neighborhood school, is 6.2% economically disadvantaged, 4.5% English learners, and 76.1% white.

Tuckahoe, another North Arlington school is 2.3% economically disadvantaged, 6.6% English learners, and 73.5% white.

Taylor, another North Arlington School, is 8.2% economically disadvantaged, 8.7% English learners and 64.2% white.

So no, ATS is not the affluent, private like school that PP is imaging. That is more Jamestown, Tuckahoe, Nottingham, Cardinal, Discovery and Taylor. ATS is probably comparable to Glebe and Arlington Science Focus which are both diverse schools with a significant percentage of economically disadvantaged students.

OP I would try ATS. If you don’t like it you can always go back to Cardinal.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Take the spot at ATS. Really great focus on creating a school community, great counselors to support kids, along with unparalleled academic achievement in APS for all subgroups.

It's the APS private school, with all the affluence benefits of choosing the right sorority/fraternity. Which is why it is particularly attractive to better off North Arl. But that is still entirely different than whether it's the right fit for a kid who has at least social awkwardness ... unless you're claiming ATS bubble people are just better humans, including taking in society's weirdos.

What a silly and inaccurate assertion. ATS is 37% economically disadvantaged, 37.3% English learners and only 34.3% white.

By comparison, Cardinal, OPs neighborhood school, is 6.2% economically disadvantaged, 4.5% English learners, and 76.1% white.

Tuckahoe, another North Arlington school is 2.3% economically disadvantaged, 6.6% English learners, and 73.5% white.

Taylor, another North Arlington School, is 8.2% economically disadvantaged, 8.7% English learners and 64.2% white.

So no, ATS is not the affluent, private like school that PP is imaging. That is more Jamestown, Tuckahoe, Nottingham, Cardinal, Discovery and Taylor. ATS is probably comparable to Glebe and Arlington Science Focus which are both diverse schools with a significant percentage of economically disadvantaged students.

OP I would try ATS. If you don’t like it you can always go back to Cardinal.

Wrong statistics. I'm talking about where the kids come from, and which families are pushing to get into into ATS. That is data that APS doesn't get to decide, like FRL makeup of a choice program. Unfortunately only APS really knows which neighborhoods push hardest/most for entry. But I'll just point out the genesis of this thread is ATS v. Cardinal...not Randolph, Barcroft, Drew, etc.

No one is going to ask whether they should go to ATS vs. Randolph, Barcroft, Drew, etc. The answer is obviously yes.

We actually do know which neighborhood schools the students come from, it's in the pupil transfer report, page 4. https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/sites/57/2023/07/2021-2022_APS-Transfer-Report.pdf

Thanks PP for this. As I suspected, previous PP doesn’t know what she’s talking about. Seems like the bulk of ATS students come from South Arlington schools or schools with a high percentage of economically disadvantaged students. So previous PP is incorrect when saying that ATS “is particularly attractive to better off North Arl.“The outlier here seems to be Cardinal, followed with a huge gap by Tuckahoe. With Cardinal it’s completely understandable. My kids go to ATS. The families I know from Cardinal told me that they applied to ATS due to the boundary process. Some didn’t know where they would be zoned for and some wanted to stick to the McKinley building (now ATS) since it’s in their neighborhood. People like previous PP seem to have a chip on their shoulder when it comes to ATS. Not sure what their problem is.