What are the best private schools in Fairfax County, high school and pre-high school?

PVI had some issues back in the 90's, but our family has watched it become one of the best schools anywhere. Earned a rating in the top 50 Catholic in the US just recently. We like the community that they foster, friendly and family-oriented and top-notch academically.

If you are looking at k-8 then check out St Leo the Great in Fairfax City. Their test scores are higher than pretty much all of the public schools and most of the private ones. The only downside is the principal and assistant principal. Both are clueless. Thankfully the teachers care and many have worked in the private sector before becoming teachers. The real world experience that they bring to the classroom really inspired my kids and many of their friends.

It doesn't matter. Anything is better than ffx public schools.

I know i know said, "Their test scores are higher than pretty much all of the public schools and most of the private ones." Do students at Leo the Great and other private schools now take the SOL tests? If not, I don't know which test scores can be compared. I know when my son went to Catholic school in kindergarten and first grade, art and science were taught by parent volunteers. Granted, the woman who taught science had a doctorate in physics, but she still wasn't an educator. I think, as with any school, the key to student success is the level of education and engagement of the parents.

^True that the parents are key. But you still can't put kids into any school and just ride on the parents' input as the key to all of it. However, when parents have a financial stake, it is likely that they will pay more attention to what is happening in the school and that any suggestions that they have may be taken more seriously. In FCPS the parents are viewed as a bother. They are put off and told things just to keep them away. In private schools, the parents are taken seriously.

Are you retarded? You had someone with a doctorate teaching a first grader science and you are complaining? That is light years better than an "educator."

Just what fantasy school were you at? I think you are full of shit.


Apples to apples? Wrote:
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I know when my son went to Catholic
> school in kindergarten and first grade, art and
> science were taught by parent volunteers. Granted,
> the woman who taught science had a doctorate in
> physics, but she still wasn't an educator.

Public and Private Wrote:
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> What are the best private schools in Fairfax
> County, high school and pre-high school?





Plus, you get a 'tax reduction voucher' to send the kids there!

Where are you getting tax reduction vouchers? Perhaps for the poor. But those of us that make money don't get such things.The best joke would be for all of the private school kids to go to Fairfax county schools for a month and overload the system.



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Flint Hill is legit. Best around. No doubt. Peace out.

they don't teach high level science or math like public school

dlkjal;kf Wrote:
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> they don't teach high level science or math like
> public school


Where did you learn grammar?

u b dummy Wrote:
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> Are you retarded? You had someone with a doctorate
> teaching a first grader science and you are
> complaining? That is light years better than an
> "educator."
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> Just what fantasy school were you at? I think you
> are full of shit.

That's what I used to think. But teaching is it's own skill. I taught college and high school as a graduate student, and I lived in a dorm with other graduate students. Some of the weirdest people you'll ever meet have doctoral degrees. It wasn't until I became a parent that I understood what differentiates good teachers from bad - especially in the younger grades - and it had nothing to do with their degrees.

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> they don't teach high level science or math like
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Which school?

I don't know your story, but I would recommend giving the public schools around here a try. They're rated some of the best in the country for a good reason.

Someone who just graduated from A FCPS.

Blegh Wrote:
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> I don't know your story, but I would recommend
> giving the public schools around here a try.
> They're rated some of the best in the country for
> a good reason.
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> Someone who just graduated from A FCPS.

LOL. Fairfax County schools: a school system where a science magnet school fails to receive accreditation in science.

"Are you retarded? You had someone with a doctorate teaching a first grader science and you are complaining? That is light years better than an "educator.""

I wasn't actually complaining. My point was that parental involvement and education is what makes a school strong. But now that you mention it, I could complain. The science and art teachers at St. James were volunteers, which meant they taught what they wanted when they could. First grade had a fun science lesson about once every two weeks if the volunteer's younger kids weren't sick.

anking Fairfax Private Schools
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Date: August 15, 2014 10:27PM

What are the best private schools in Fairfax County, high school and pre-high school?

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Go fuck urself.

X9JcN Wrote:
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> LOL. Fairfax County schools: a school system where
> a science magnet school fails to receive
> accreditation in science.

Are you really that ignorant? Baileys is as they euphemistically call it "culturally, economically, linguistically diverse". It is a Title I School. It was already over 50% non-English a couple of decades ago. It currently is over 60% non-English proficient, over 60% F&RL and over 60% Hispanic. 75% of the school is in English or Special Ed programs. That's two strikes against it from the outset. The magnet school was someone's "brilliant" idea of trying to shore the school up by bringing in higher performing students from outside the school boundary.

Name one private school in this area that has kids with the same profile as Baileys that is performing well.

^ The public schools will become the places for these types of students, while anyone with money will send their kids to privates. This is how America's gap will widen. Sad days.