Back in 2002-03, GTAC members received a document showing 19 students admitted to the GT Center program from the six Cluster IV elementary schools that would feed into Riverside:  Fort Belvoir (3); Mt. Vernon Woods (3); Riverside (3); Washington Mill (6); Woodlawn (2); and Woodley Hills (2).  GTAC members also received information about the number of students from those six elementary schools who were attending the Stratford Landing GT Center in 2002-03, which provided data for third through sixth grade GTC students by their base elementary school.  The total number from all six feeder schools, in all four grades, was 52:  Fort Belvoir (7); Mt. Vernon Wood (7); Riverside (9); Washington Mill (16); Woodlawn (8); and Woodley Hills (5).  Given these numbers, some parents on the GTAC questioned whether it made sense to create the Riverside GTC, rather than keeping those students at Stratford Landing’s established and larger GT Center.  http://www.fcag.org/publications.html.

The FCPS web site shows that the Riverside GTC currently has about 80 students.  These students are not as advanced mathematically as students in other FCPS GT Centers, despite small class sizes.  In 2006-07, for example, 16 of the Riverside ES students took the Math 7 SOL test, which probably means that only a handful did well enough on the IAAT to be offered the chance to take the Math 8 SOL test.  Of the 16 students who took the Math 7 SOL test, about 44% had pass advanced scores.  Statistics for other elementary school GT Centers can be found in some of the archived FCAG newsletters, at