John B. Cary Elementary Receives Excellence Award
John B. Cary Elementary received an award from the State Board of Education. Many parents in our area have kids attending that school. Congrats!
2012 Governor’s Award for Educational ExcellenceHenrico: Echo Lake Elementary, Gayton Elementary, Nuckols Farm Elementary, Rivers Edge Elementary, Shady Grove Elementary, Short Pump Elementary and Tuckahoe Elementary2012 Board of Education Excellence Awards
Henrico: Arthur Ashe Jr. Elementary, Colonial Trail Elementary, Glen Allen Elementary, Greenwood Elementary, Jackson Davis Elementary, Pemberton Elementary, Springfield Park Elementary, Three Chopt Elementary and Twin Hickory ElementaryRichmond: Mary Munford Elementary and Richmond Community High2012 Board of Education Competence to Excellence Awards
Henrico: Chamberlayne Elementary, Douglas S. Freeman High, Mills E. Godwin High and Ridge ElementaryRichmond: Albert Hill Middle, Bellevue Elementary, Broad Rock Elementary, John B. Cary Elementary, Open High and Swansboro Elementary
This is great for Cary parents, but aren’t most of us slated to head to Clark Springs (at least those of us on the …wood streets)? I don’t know anything about this school… is there anyone out there that had their kid there that could comment on it?
Also- I heard that the city was going to redistrict to funnel more kids to Cary because it was underused. Does anyone know anything about that?
Thanks!
The 2100 and 2000 blocks of the “wood streets” go to Clark Springs and the 2200 and up blocks go to Cary. I would love for our whole neighborhood to be districted together!
How about if we arrange a tour of Clark Springs? My kids are zoned for there for elementary school. Although we’re pretty sure we’ll send them to Maymont for pre-k, we need more info on Clark Springs.
Wow- I can’t believe they split up the neighborhood like that! We’re still a ways off from needing to worry about anything (kiddo’s got about 5 more years before he’ll be in school), but I’d be interested to hear back if anyone ended up going on a tour of Clark Springs.
The Maymont Preschool Center is wonderful! I have found it to be very welcoming and the teachers that we have experience with are experienced and professional. I would really encourage it’s use by our neighborhood! We chose to not send our daughter to Clark Springs. There was no diversity at Maymont when it was an elementary school, and they took the whole school and moved it into Clark Springs. Having taught for RPS, I am a but jaded towards some of the schools. We opted for Patrick Henry School of Science and Arts because I love that their focus is not just passing the SOLs which is what I saw with RPS schools.
We’d love to hear more about the schools. I’m finding researching into them so challenging. Being British I’m not even sure what age Joe will be going to school? Jason, how did you find out who qualifies for pre-k? coincidentally I looked at the qualification form today and got the impression we wouldn’t qualify. We’re on the 2400 so currently in Cary zone yet I feel like we’ll still try to lottery into Fox and Patrick Henry, but also I guess 2.5 years lots of things change.
I’ve got no clue about the qualifications for Maymont’s VPI program. Maybe I need to scrutinize that form.
I’m not sure there *are* any “qualifications,” as it relates to income. The VPI program was designed for lower-income families, but relatively few of them seem to use it, so the rest of us can. I know that my friends in Northside who are in the Holton district still send their kids to pre-K on-site, but this page divvies up the consolidated centers: http://web.richmond.k12.va.us/Programs/RegionalPreschoolLearningCenters.aspx
By the time the centers were consolidated, my older son was already at Munford (we live in southside) and the younger one just sorta went to Maymont. As for the rules, in my experience the process can be a little…capricious. Some folks seem to sail right through with no issues at all, and others run into roadblock after roadblock.
One thing I can say is that every single person I’ve encountered with RPS whose office is *not* in City Hall has been great.
As a Cary and Open High alum, this is great to see!