Anonymous wrote:That can't be legal regardless of whether the people are legal citizens. There are restrictions on how many families can live in a single family and apartments.

Do you really think the lower income housing apartments enforce that? I lived near that area years a go in an apartment and someone left a door open and I witnessed like 2 families living in an efficiency with tons of kids.

If the BOS really wanted to save money which they say they do, they should clear out some of these homes with people living in violation.

That can't be legal regardless of whether the people are legal citizens. There are restrictions on how many families can live in a single family and apartments.

I have seen an empty bus pull up in front of those low rise apartments right around the corner from Target and the bus completely fill up with kids coming out of one building. It is crazy. I can't even imagine all the kids live in that one building.

Anonymous wrote:Sleepy Hollow is most of Lake Barcroft. Looks like most of it is single family large acre dwellings and some apartments, but not any more than I've seen in other well to do districts. How is it possible that this school is Title 1? Is everyone living in houses legally?

More likely it's the apartments that are overcrowded. In the Culmore area around Bailey's there are 2 and 3 families per apartment. The apartments that feed into Sleepy Hollow may be similar. There used to be quite a few illegal boarding houses in the neighborhoods around Sleepy Hollow, but it seems as if most of those resolved during the foreclosure crisis.

There are more apartments in elementary schools like Shrevewood, Cunningham Park, Stenwood, Lemon Road, and Freedom Hill. Sleepy Hollow is mostly very nice single family homes. Why do they get 15 kids in a class and the schools I listed have classes in the 30's?

Anonymous wrote:Sleepy Hollow is most of Lake Barcroft. Looks like most of it is single family large acre dwellings and some apartments, but not any more than I've seen in other well to do districts. How is it possible that this school is Title 1? Is everyone living in houses legally?

Here's the current boundary map for Sleepy Hollow - http://www.fcps.edu/images/boundarymaps/sleepyhollowes.pdf

Sleepy Hollow is most of Lake Barcroft. Looks like most of it is single family large acre dwellings and some apartments, but not any more than I've seen in other well to do districts. How is it possible that this school is Title 1? Is everyone living in houses legally?

Anonymous wrote:Agree. I find it hard to believe it's a Title 1 school.

Sleepy Hollow's boundaries include kids from the apartments Willston/Seven Corners area. Also, keep in mind that long-term (5 to 7 years), a lot of kids in the neighborhoods at the north end of Sleepy Hollow Rd will probably be redistricted into the new school going into an office building on Rt 7 at Seven Corners. It seems doubtful that the new school will be a "Bailey's solution only" on a permanent basis.

Agree. I find it hard to believe it's a Title 1 school.

Anonymous wrote:Great. Let's all move to these 3 schools....lol

Lots of really nice houses in the Sleepy Hollow area. You could do a lot worse.

Anonymous wrote:My child's KG classroom has 17 children with two teachers and the percent of FARMS is very low. I really feel bad for the classrooms with 37 children. I know it could be my child in that situation in a few years. We really need to have lower caps on classroom sizes.

Last year, my K child was in a class with 5-6 disadvantaged children who did not speak English, 28 kids total, with a teacher and an aide. In a small storage area converted to classroom space with no windows. In FCPS!

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Anonymous wrote:Mount Eagle: 16 kids per 6th grade classroom and 15 in each 4th grade

Sleepy Hollow: 15 per third grade class and 17 per 5th grade class

http://www.greatschools.org/virginia/alexandria/547-Mount-Eagle-Elementary-School/
http://www.greatschools.org/virginia/falls-church/568-Sleepy-Hollow-Elementary-School/

Looks like the parents like the schools.

Great. Let's all move to these 3 schools....lol

Anonymous wrote:Mount Eagle: 16 kids per 6th grade classroom and 15 in each 4th grade

Sleepy Hollow: 15 per third grade class and 17 per 5th grade class

http://www.greatschools.org/virginia/alexandria/547-Mount-Eagle-Elementary-School/
http://www.greatschools.org/virginia/falls-church/568-Sleepy-Hollow-Elementary-School/