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Anonymous wrote:Florida has 16 schools in the top 150.
California has 17
Arizona has 10
Texas has 23

Virginia has only 1

This isn't a valid comparison - state size varies.

Virginia is larger than Az

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Anonymous wrote:I wish they would exclude the application schools. I would rather see a ranking of public schools that take what ever student shows up at their door and rank the cherry picking schools in a different category.

Exactly. FCPS makes sure to segregate at every turn so that they can pat themselves on the back for having top schools. Meanwhile the neighboring high schools have kids who are barely literate. It’s disgusting.

Anyone can apply to TJ.

In case you're wondering how the FCPS schools measure against APS, ACPS, FCCPS, and LCPS

1. TJ (also #1 in VA)
2. Langley (#2 in VA)
3. McLean (#3 in VA)
4. Marshall (#5 in VA)
5. Woodson (#6 in VA)
6. Chantilly (#7 in VA)
7. Oakton (#8 in VA)
8. Madison (#9 in VA)
9. West Springfield (#10 in VA)

[yes - that means 9 of the top 10 in VA are FCPS schools]

Yorktown (APS - #12 in VA)
George Mason (FCCPS - #14 in VA)
10. Robinson (#15 in VA)
11. Lake Braddock (#16 in VA)
Brian Woods (LCPS - #20 in VA)
12. Centreville (#23 in VA)
Riverside (LCPS - #27 in VA)
Broad Run (LCPS - #28 in VA)
Washington-Liberty (APS - #29 in VA)
Freedom (LCPS - #30 in VA)
13. Fairfax (#32 in VA)
Rock Ridge (LCPS - #33 in VA)
Stone Bridge (LCPS - #37 in VA)
Woodgrove (LCPS - #40 in VA)
14. South County (#44 in VA)
15. Westfield (#47 in VA)
16. Edison (#52 in VA)
John Champe (LCPS - #57 in VA)
17. Hayfield (#62 in VA)
Dominion (LCPS - #63 in VA)
Heritage (LCPS - #64 in VA)
Loudoun County (LCPS - #65 in VA)
18. South Lakes (#67 in VA)
Loudoun Valley (LCPS - #70 in VA)
Wakefield (APS - #71 in VA)
19. Herndon (#83 in VA)
Potomac Falls (LCPS - #89 in VA)
20. Justice (#101 in VA)
21. Falls Church (#104 in VA)
Tuscarora (LCPS - #105 in VA)
22. Annandale (#107 in VA)
23. West Potomac (#159 in VA)
Park View (LCPS - #168 in VA)
24. Lewis (#173 in VA)
TC Williams (ACPS - #227 in VA)
25. Mount Vernon (in the ## 269-319 category)

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Anonymous wrote:I wish they would exclude the application schools. I would rather see a ranking of public schools that take what ever student shows up at their door and rank the cherry picking schools in a different category.

Exactly. FCPS makes sure to segregate at every turn so that they can pat themselves on the back for having top schools. Meanwhile the neighboring high schools have kids who are barely literate. It’s disgusting.

There's no consistency and it all depends on where individual School Board members live and what they want at the time boundaries are on the table. Unfortunately, one result of now having an elected School Board is that they listen to the loudest parents and boundary adjustments usually end up increasing the gaps between neighboring schools.

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Anonymous wrote:I wish they would exclude the application schools. I would rather see a ranking of public schools that take what ever student shows up at their door and rank the cherry picking schools in a different category.

Exactly. FCPS makes sure to segregate at every turn so that they can pat themselves on the back for having top schools. Meanwhile the neighboring high schools have kids who are barely literate. It’s disgusting.

FCPS isn’t patting itself on the back about TJ. It is criticizing it and insulting its students. They are not proud of those kids at al.

Anonymous wrote:Florida has 16 schools in the top 150.
California has 17
Arizona has 10
Texas has 23

Virginia has only 1

This isn't a valid comparison - state size varies.

Anonymous wrote:I wish they would exclude the application schools. I would rather see a ranking of public schools that take what ever student shows up at their door and rank the cherry picking schools in a different category.

Exactly. FCPS makes sure to segregate at every turn so that they can pat themselves on the back for having top schools. Meanwhile the neighboring high schools have kids who are barely literate. It’s disgusting.

I wish they would exclude the application schools. I would rather see a ranking of public schools that take what ever student shows up at their door and rank the cherry picking schools in a different category.

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Anonymous wrote:But according to this forum FCPS is the worse school district ever?

Worst

This list shows how good FCPS is at concentrating poverty in a few high schools. It’s embarrassing that the same district has the top ten and a school too low to list

How is this embarrassing?

There will always be good and bad neighborhoods anywhere you go. This is not unique to FCPS.

The worst school in the county is bordered by Hayfield and South County. The board chose to concentrate poverty in a few schools to placate parents in the rest of the county

The real Mount Vernon boundary drama is with West Potomac. The South County border is the Mason Neck kids and there are probably only 10-20 kids a grade total in that whole area. It would not make sense to change that border because that area is on the other side of Fort Belvoir and the traffic in that area of Route 1 is crazy. It's the West Potomac/Mount Vernon border that should be addressed as West Potomac is over enrolled.

I wish we had charter schools. FCPS has no accountability.

Anonymous wrote:Nice. The high school ranked 2 shares a border with the high school ranked 83. That makes sooooo much sense.

Those schools share a boundary border, but the schools themselves aren't especially close to one another (Langley is almost 15 miles from Herndon). You know you have another thread to explain exactly how you'd change the Langley/Herndon boundaries.

Anonymous wrote:Florida has 16 schools in the top 150.
California has 17
Arizona has 10
Texas has 23

Virginia has only 1

Other states have far more small charters, which are now included in the US News ratings. That model isn't necessarily one to admire.

Nice. The high school ranked 2 shares a border with the high school ranked 83. That makes sooooo much sense.

Florida has 16 schools in the top 150.
California has 17
Arizona has 10
Texas has 23

Virginia has only 1

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People will complain about anything

Your kid has the opportunity to go to one of the NINE top schools in the entire country just by living here and all you do is b$%^h?

Those sorts of people are never happy.

I'm embarrassed for you. If you read the OP or the article at all, you'd realize that those schools are the top 9 in the State. Actually, the 2nd highest school in the state, Langley, is only ranked #154 nationally. So, unless your kid gets into TJ, your kid can't attend any of the top 150 schools in the country.