Explain Waynewood/Stratford/Fort Hunt dynamic to me
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Anonymous
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We live in the Fort Hunt area and it is astounding to me to see the Waynewood/Stratford/Fort Hunt elementary school dynamic to me.
Waynewood - highly regarded elementary school with very low farms/high SES and the racial diversity is lacking (highest percentage is white). They do not bus in any kids from Route 1. Stratford - center AAP with a medium farms percentage and mix racial diversity. Kids bussed in from all over since it is a center school. Fort hunt - very high farms percentage/low SES/Spanish immersion school with a lot of kids bussed in from route 1. How is it possible that waynewood has been able to not have kids bussed in from route 1? Isn’t that racial segregation? Due to this fact the housing prices in the Waynewood area significantly higher than the other areas. Please explain this to me. |
Anonymous
| Welcome to Fairfax County. |
Anonymous
| Stratford and Waynewood have contiguous boundaries. Hollin Hall used to be the affordable part of Waynewood, but over the past few decades it has shot up in value. Ft hunt was under enrolled so they added immersion and and and attendance island, but the attendance island led to even more families choosing private, and it's still under enrolled. |
Anonymous
Yep - home of Democratic hypocrites in that area like Karen Corbett Sanders and Scott Surovell who talk equity and practice segregation. |
Anonymous
| How is it allowed - the dynamics and optics look horrible! The people in waynewood fight hard to keep the lower SES families out. They brag all the time about “how great Waynewood is”. It seems hypocritical. |
Anonymous
| Wait til you get to know the high school dynamic between West Potomac and Mt. Vernon . . . |
Anonymous
Please explain this to me - op here |
Anonymous
They built a massive and unnecessary expansion of West Potomac just so kids wouldn’t have to attend poorer, under-enrolled Mount Vernon, which is treated as a dumping ground for the poorest kids living off Route 1. It’s yet more taxpayer-funded discrimination. |
Anonymous
The poorest area off of Rt 1 is assigned to FT Hunt which feeds into to West Potomac. |
Anonymous
There’s more of that type of housing zoned to Mount Vernon. |
Anonymous
Actually there was a time when some low-income and high-minority areas were zoned for Waynewood. It was way back, like maybe 25 years ago at least. I distinctly remember there was a boundary change and those areas ended up zoned for different schools, leaving Waynewood to be "Whitewood." I remember a lot of disgruntlement over it at the time, and everyone saying that Waynewood was going to be the only all-white school in the area, but I don't remember why it was done in the first place or why it never changed back. |
Anonymous
| What is an attendance Island |
Anonymous
| Fort Hunt is a great school. Both of my kids have thrived - one in SPED and one who made AAP but we decided to stay for Spanish. The Waynewood thing is pretty egregious but it isn't affecting my kids educational negatively so I don't worry about it. |
Anonymous
It's an area/neighborhood that is carved within another school's catchment zone. You can see it here on this map. When you open it, blow it up and scroll over to the bottom left. You'll see Fort Hunt ES bordering the river. Then follow a little up and to the left and find Mount Vernon Woods in bold. Right above the word "Mount" you'll see in a smaller font "Fort Hunt" with a line. That's an attendance island. Kids from there drive through a couple of other school catchments to get to Fort Hunt ES. https://www.fcps.edu/sites/default/files/media/pdf/SY2023-24ElementarySchoolBoundaries.pdf To OP--where should Waynewood pull from? Look at the boundaries. Where do you propose they pull from? Currently there are zero apartment buildings in their catchment zone. All single family homes. |
Anonymous
| Sorry--^^^ I meant scroll to the bottom RIGHT, not left, to find Fort Hunt. |