News Alert regarding upcoming boundary changes
A message from FAIRFAX COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
FCPS boundary study of Fairfax HS & surrounding schools
The Fairfax County School Board has voted to approve adjustments to school attendance areas in an effort to alleviate overcrowding at Fairfax High School and Lanier Middle School. Continue Reading…
Sylvia and Marcus are moving to Fairfax County this Summer. They have already made a couple of trips this Spring to get themselves familiar with the area, and to figure out which schools are the right ones for their kids.
Emily and Sasha are looking for the Top Fairfax County Elementary Schools
Sylvia and Marcus’s have two kids: Emily and Sasha (rising 6th and 7th graders, respectively).
As part of their new home purchase, Sylvia and Marcus are looking to find highly-ranked Fairfax County Elementary Schools, as well as great Middle Schools for each of their kids.
And, since they’re planning on staying in Fairfax County for several years, they want to make sure that the High School is also very strong academically.
One way to identify schools with high academic scores is to use the Standards of Learning (SOL) passing rates.
The Virginia Standards of Learning (SOL) tests are standardized tests applied at all the public schools in Virginia. These tests are useful to see how well a school scored above the district’s average; it’s one of the ways you can use to compare one school vs. another.
To help Sylvia and Marcus with comparing schools with good academics, we compiled for them a table of the average SOL pass rates of all the schools in Fairfax County. Continue Reading…
For the year 2013, US News teamed up with a renowned Washington, DC-based research firm to rank all the high schools in America.
Best High Schools Rankings
Together, they analyzed over 21,000 public high-schools in 49 states and D.C.*.
This year, their ranking methodology was to:
1. Identify the schools that had above-average test results for reading and math (in standardized tests).
2. Next, they considered the results of the least-advantaged students in those schools and ensured that their test results were above their State average as well.
3. Lastly, the schools that made it through the first two steps were judged based on their “College Readiness Index (CRI)”, calculated by using Advanced Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB)** test scores of the 2010-2011 academic year.
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technhology (TJHSST) is currently ranked as the # 1 High School in Virginia and the #2 High School in the Nation.
How to have the best chance to get into Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJHSST)
A few years ago, I remember my young neighbor Amy coming back from middle school later than most middle school kids in the neighborhood. I asked her if she was in after-school programs and she said that she came home later because she attended Carson MS instead of our neighborhood-assigned middle school.
A few years later, she had to get up even earlier and come home even later than her High School friends in the neighborhood because she was attending Thomas Jefferson High School. Now I realize that she was following in her brother’s footsteps and pursuing a Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) path toward college.
“I got the job, and we’re moving to Fairfax County!”, said Harry. Sally was excited to hear the news but apprehensive at the same time. She had moved several times before and it was always so stressful… were there any good Fairfax County schools for their 4 children?
She scoured the web and found that Fairfax County had a select number of schools that were recently in the news for having won a “VIP award”. That sounded like a great thing, but… what exactly is a VIP award?
Rocky Run Middle School earned the highest VIP award
The VIP awards are earned by a few schools in Virginia who meet high standards of learning and who achieve excellence goals established by the Governor and the Board.
The awards are divided into three levels:
To win the Governor’s Award for Educational Excellence, a school or division must meet all State and Federal achievement benchmarks for two consecutive years and achieve all applicable excellence goals that the Board and the Governor have designated.
This year, there were only 2 schools in the entire State of Virginia who earned this award, and one of them is Rocky Run Middle School in Fairfax County.
Everybody is welcome to find a home by school boundary. A school boundary
is simply a geographical area, just like a zip code or a postal city.
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Marina Brito
Realtor®, RE/MAX Premier,Home by School Specialist
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