Good Public High Schools in NoVA

mathyone
Mon, 04 Nov 2013 09:26:19 +0000

My daughter attends a nearly-2000 student high school (not in NoVA). The large size allows them to offer many AP classes and provides a larger group of top students to work with. But it has also been difficult in that some of the EC’s are extremely competitive to get into–the number of spots available doesn’t necessarily scale with school size. She didn’t do many activities freshman year because she couldn’t get in to two of the three things she really wanted to do. In that respect, she would have been much better off at a 1000 student school, where I know she would have been able to pursue her chosen EC’s.