Anonymous
10/09/2014 00:00
Subject: Re:ISO of a SMALL elementary school in FCPS
PP 21:52 said "barring a major difference in demographics ... "
Anonymous
10/08/2014 23:55
Subject: Re:ISO of a SMALL elementary school in FCPS
Anonymous wrote:I understand that some people like the closer knit atmosphere of a smaller school, but the total size of a school is nowhere near as meaningful as the size of individual classes. Barring a major difference in demographics, I'd rather have my kids in a school that has a big overall student population but smaller classes than a smaller school with a higher student to teacher ratio. Bigger schools also come with more after school/extracurricular activities from which to choose.
Title one is not fun
Anonymous
10/08/2014 21:52
Subject: Re:ISO of a SMALL elementary school in FCPS
I understand that some people like the closer knit atmosphere of a smaller school, but the total size of a school is nowhere near as meaningful as the size of individual classes. Barring a major difference in demographics, I'd rather have my kids in a school that has a big overall student population but smaller classes than a smaller school with a higher student to teacher ratio. Bigger schools also come with more after school/extracurricular activities from which to choose.
Anonymous
10/08/2014 21:37
Subject: ISO of a SMALL elementary school in FCPS
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Does such a school exist? If so, please share the name and experience with the school.
Check out FCPS' Dashboard - listings for Spring 2014 enrollments are available:
http://www.fcps.edu/fts/dashboard/enrollment/esenroll13-14.html
Of the schools already mentioned, here are the corresponding Spring 2014 enrollment figures:
Fairfax Villa 596
Franklin Sherman 409
Lemon Road 482
Little Run 351
Olde Creek 439
Vienna 394
Waynewood 733
Vienna sounds ideal to me. And the biggest plus - no AAP!
Don't worry. They'll ruin it. A few years back formerly tiny Westbriar had about 420 students. Now with AAP and an addition they're projected at between 950 to 1000 in two years. NO school is safe in this system. AAP has forever warped sane schooling in this area and if you don't think the fever affects Vienna El. you're kidding yourself.
Latest CIP has Westbriar at 869 students in two years. Is the figure higher on the Dashboard? The projections for Westbriar may assume students from new construction in Tysons. The Vienna ES district doesn't include any Tysons projects. And many students at Westbriar live closer to Wolftrap and Colvin Run, each of which is projected to have extra capacity. Finally, FCPS expects to build another ES in the heart of Tysons at some point.
So I think you're hyperventilating a bit about Westbriar's future and, in any event, it doesn't mean Vienna will get huge any time soon. It's possible FCPS could formally move the small part of Freedom Hill in the Town of Vienna zoned for Madison to Vienna (currently, transfer requests are routinely granted), but that doesn't involve many kids.
Latest CIP is already outdated. These figures came from a meeting about Westbriar's addition and were confirmed by the principal. Yes, at some point, a new Tysons school will be built, but not in near future. Westbriar was a tiny school tucked on a tiny street that people didn't really care about until it became a center. Westbriar would not have gotten the addition if it didn't become a center --new construction in Tysons or no.
And we're talking about more than the doubling of a school population, so forgive me if my reaction seems to be hyperventilating. Completely changes the character of the school and will likely turn it into another AAP-heavy Louise Archer or Haycock disaster.
Anti aap mediocre whites
Anonymous
10/08/2014 21:33
Subject: ISO of a SMALL elementary school in FCPS
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Does such a school exist? If so, please share the name and experience with the school.
Check out FCPS' Dashboard - listings for Spring 2014 enrollments are available:
http://www.fcps.edu/fts/dashboard/enrollment/esenroll13-14.html
Of the schools already mentioned, here are the corresponding Spring 2014 enrollment figures:
Fairfax Villa 596
Franklin Sherman 409
Lemon Road 482
Little Run 351
Olde Creek 439
Vienna 394
Waynewood 733
Vienna sounds ideal to me. And the biggest plus - no AAP!
Don't worry. They'll ruin it. A few years back formerly tiny Westbriar had about 420 students. Now with AAP and an addition they're projected at between 950 to 1000 in two years. NO school is safe in this system. AAP has forever warped sane schooling in this area and if you don't think the fever affects Vienna El. you're kidding yourself.
Latest CIP has Westbriar at 869 students in two years. Is the figure higher on the Dashboard? The projections for Westbriar may assume students from new construction in Tysons. The Vienna ES district doesn't include any Tysons projects. And many students at Westbriar live closer to Wolftrap and Colvin Run, each of which is projected to have extra capacity. Finally, FCPS expects to build another ES in the heart of Tysons at some point.
So I think you're hyperventilating a bit about Westbriar's future and, in any event, it doesn't mean Vienna will get huge any time soon. It's possible FCPS could formally move the small part of Freedom Hill in the Town of Vienna zoned for Madison to Vienna (currently, transfer requests are routinely granted), but that doesn't involve many kids.
Latest CIP is already outdated. These figures came from a meeting about Westbriar's addition and were confirmed by the principal. Yes, at some point, a new Tysons school will be built, but not in near future. Westbriar was a tiny school tucked on a tiny street that people didn't really care about until it became a center. Westbriar would not have gotten the addition if it didn't become a center --new construction in Tysons or no.
And we're talking about more than the doubling of a school population, so forgive me if my reaction seems to be hyperventilating. Completely changes the character of the school and will likely turn it into another AAP-heavy Louise Archer or Haycock disaster.
Anonymous
10/08/2014 10:27
Subject: ISO of a SMALL elementary school in FCPS
Anonymous wrote:Whatever happened to the small-ish neighborhood school
The population has increased.
I blame the federal government and all the jobs in the metro DC area.
Anonymous
10/08/2014 10:15
Subject: ISO of a SMALL elementary school in FCPS
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Does such a school exist? If so, please share the name and experience with the school.
Check out FCPS' Dashboard - listings for Spring 2014 enrollments are available:
http://www.fcps.edu/fts/dashboard/enrollment/esenroll13-14.html
Of the schools already mentioned, here are the corresponding Spring 2014 enrollment figures:
Fairfax Villa 596
Franklin Sherman 409
Lemon Road 482
Little Run 351
Olde Creek 439
Vienna 394
Waynewood 733
Vienna sounds ideal to me. And the biggest plus - no AAP!
Don't worry. They'll ruin it. A few years back formerly tiny Westbriar had about 420 students. Now with AAP and an addition they're projected at between 950 to 1000 in two years. NO school is safe in this system. AAP has forever warped sane schooling in this area and if you don't think the fever affects Vienna El. you're kidding yourself.
This just makes me so sad. Whatever happened to the small-ish neighborhood school, with none of this AAP nonsense? You're completely right, AAP really has 'forever warped sane schooling' in FCPS. What an incredible shame.
Anonymous
10/08/2014 08:23
Subject: ISO of a SMALL elementary school in FCPS
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Does such a school exist? If so, please share the name and experience with the school.
Check out FCPS' Dashboard - listings for Spring 2014 enrollments are available:
http://www.fcps.edu/fts/dashboard/enrollment/esenroll13-14.html
Of the schools already mentioned, here are the corresponding Spring 2014 enrollment figures:
Fairfax Villa 596
Franklin Sherman 409
Lemon Road 482
Little Run 351
Olde Creek 439
Vienna 394
Waynewood 733
Vienna sounds ideal to me. And the biggest plus - no AAP!
Don't worry. They'll ruin it. A few years back formerly tiny Westbriar had about 420 students. Now with AAP and an addition they're projected at between 950 to 1000 in two years. NO school is safe in this system. AAP has forever warped sane schooling in this area and if you don't think the fever affects Vienna El. you're kidding yourself.
Latest CIP has Westbriar at 869 students in two years. Is the figure higher on the Dashboard? The projections for Westbriar may assume students from new construction in Tysons. The Vienna ES district doesn't include any Tysons projects. And many students at Westbriar live closer to Wolftrap and Colvin Run, each of which is projected to have extra capacity. Finally, FCPS expects to build another ES in the heart of Tysons at some point.
So I think you're hyperventilating a bit about Westbriar's future and, in any event, it doesn't mean Vienna will get huge any time soon. It's possible FCPS could formally move the small part of Freedom Hill in the Town of Vienna zoned for Madison to Vienna (currently, transfer requests are routinely granted), but that doesn't involve many kids.
Anonymous
10/08/2014 08:06
Subject: ISO of a SMALL elementary school in FCPS
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Does such a school exist? If so, please share the name and experience with the school.
Check out FCPS' Dashboard - listings for Spring 2014 enrollments are available:
http://www.fcps.edu/fts/dashboard/enrollment/esenroll13-14.html
Of the schools already mentioned, here are the corresponding Spring 2014 enrollment figures:
Fairfax Villa 596
Franklin Sherman 409
Lemon Road 482
Little Run 351
Olde Creek 439
Vienna 394
Waynewood 733
Vienna sounds ideal to me. And the biggest plus - no AAP!
Don't worry. They'll ruin it. A few years back formerly tiny Westbriar had about 420 students. Now with AAP and an addition they're projected at between 950 to 1000 in two years. NO school is safe in this system. AAP has forever warped sane schooling in this area and if you don't think the fever affects Vienna El. you're kidding yourself.
Anonymous
10/07/2014 13:04
Subject: ISO of a SMALL elementary school in FCPS
+1 on Olde Creek. Great school, good sense of community!
Anonymous
10/07/2014 12:24
Subject: ISO of a SMALL elementary school in FCPS
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Garfield ES 369
Ouch. I know it's not nice of me to say that, but ouch.
62% FARMS
50% English proficient
45% English language services
Right, because there's no way in hell there could be anything good going on there. The fact that they've been a model school for Responsive Classroom means nothing. If there are poors there, it must be a shit hole.
I know it's not nice of me to say this, but go to hell and take your elitist attitude with you. You wouldn't be worthy of sending your kids to a school like Garfield.
Nice to see someone stand up for the school. People think they can bad-mouth any school in FCPS with lots of FARMS kids with impunity. They don't do it so often with similar schools in Arlington or Montgomery because they know they'll get called on it.
+1 for Garfield ES. Go Eagles.
Anonymous
10/07/2014 12:14
Subject: ISO of a SMALL elementary school in FCPS
550 is small for FCPS. I think they build new schools for around 800.
Anonymous
10/07/2014 12:09
Subject: ISO of a SMALL elementary school in FCPS
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Terra Centre is a good school - 550Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Does such a school exist? If so, please share the name and experience with the school.
Check out FCPS' Dashboard - listings for Spring 2014 enrollments are available:
http://www.fcps.edu/fts/dashboard/enrollment/esenroll13-14.html
Of the schools already mentioned, here are the corresponding Spring 2014 enrollment figures:
Fairfax Villa 596
Franklin Sherman 409
Lemon Road 482
Little Run 351
Olde Creek 439
Vienna 394
Waynewood 733
+1 on Terra Centre!
Is 550 a small school now? That's 3 classes per grade.
Anonymous
10/06/2014 23:10
Subject: ISO of a SMALL elementary school in FCPS
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Garfield ES 369
Ouch. I know it's not nice of me to say that, but ouch.
62% FARMS
50% English proficient
45% English language services
Right, because there's no way in hell there could be anything good going on there. The fact that they've been a model school for Responsive Classroom means nothing. If there are poors there, it must be a shit hole.
I know it's not nice of me to say this, but go to hell and take your elitist attitude with you. You wouldn't be worthy of sending your kids to a school like Garfield.
Nice to see someone stand up for the school. People think they can bad-mouth any school in FCPS with lots of FARMS kids with impunity. They don't do it so often with similar schools in Arlington or Montgomery because they know they'll get called on it.
Anonymous
10/06/2014 22:15
Subject: ISO of a SMALL elementary school in FCPS
Anonymous wrote:Terra Centre is a good school - 550Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Does such a school exist? If so, please share the name and experience with the school.
Check out FCPS' Dashboard - listings for Spring 2014 enrollments are available:
http://www.fcps.edu/fts/dashboard/enrollment/esenroll13-14.html
Of the schools already mentioned, here are the corresponding Spring 2014 enrollment figures:
Fairfax Villa 596
Franklin Sherman 409
Lemon Road 482
Little Run 351
Olde Creek 439
Vienna 394
Waynewood 733
+1 on Terra Centre!