Fort Hunt Elementary School

How and why is this a project momentum schoo?l, and what does that mean? Poor leadership? Classes are unbalanced? Bad test scores? etc..

Excellent experience at Fort Hunt -we have the opportunity to transfer to another school based on testing, but my kids are staying at Fort Hunt for the diversity and more important benefits gained from being in the Spanish immersion program. The staff at Ft. Hunt are extremely proactive and helpful and I could not be more pleased with this school.

Hidden gem. The way great schools rates schools is based on quantitative indicators like test scores (which are known to favor white, privileged students) and misses qualitative indicators. This school is much better than the elitists at the rating agency can process.

A school's quality goes way beyond the standardized test scores. And unfortunately for this school it gets lower ratings because it's test scores are lower than the neighboring schools. There are plenty of reasons to account for this ( lower income children that are bussed in, top performers are moved out the school to attend the AAP at a neighboring school, and the school is home the special education program in the area). That being said this school offers so much more for children than most of the neighboring schools including the Spanish immersion program, a strong arts program, a very strong music program that all grades participate weekly, as well as choir and instrument instruction (strings starts in 3rd grade and band in 4th), after school enrichment programs, fleet foxes running program, tutoring, word masters, math olympiad, odyssey of the mind, and STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts and Mathematics) program weekly for 3-5th grades. The students of this school are very diverse, which brings a richness to all of these kids experiences and prepares them for real world situations. On top of all those wonderful programs, this school has an amazing principal ( his child attends this school) is who totally dedicated to this school and fantastic teachers that love their job. I hope that in this wealthy and educated area, that people do not attempt to judge this school based on hearsay. My kids love their school and as parents we feel this is an excellent school.