FCPS is turning the new high school purchased to fix crowding into an Aviation magnet school instead of a high school??

[Anonymous]

The building will need work, but the bigger issues of boundaries, hiring staff, and getting a school infrastructure started will take more time than they got for 2026.

[Anonymous]

When a school opens with just 9-10 do they add 11 and 12 the following year? Or just 11 one year and 12 the next?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When a school opens with just 9-10 do they add 11 and 12 the following year? Or just 11 one year and 12 the next?

The 9th and 10th graders become the 11th and 12th grades over time. They add 9th graders each year. At the end of the third year, the school will have all four grades. This is done to not disrupt students in 11th and 12th grade at other schools and to allow the school time to build up teachers and programs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When a school opens with just 9-10 do they add 11 and 12 the following year? Or just 11 one year and 12 the next?

The 9th and 10th graders become the 11th and 12th grades over time. They add 9th graders each year. At the end of the third year, the school will have all four grades. This is done to not disrupt students in 11th and 12th grade at other schools and to allow the school time to build up teachers and programs.

I went to a school that did this. I was in the second graduating class. I started there in 10th grade (prior junior high school 7-9). When I began it was 10th and 11th.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When a school opens with just 9-10 do they add 11 and 12 the following year? Or just 11 one year and 12 the next?

The 9th and 10th graders become the 11th and 12th grades over time. They add 9th graders each year. At the end of the third year, the school will have all four grades. This is done to not disrupt students in 11th and 12th grade at other schools and to allow the school time to build up teachers and programs.

New high schools in FCPS opened as 9-11 schools in the past. The main reason they’d open initially as 9–10 is the current facility can’t handle three grades. I’m not convinced the SB won’t tell Reid, who probably still wants an aviation academy on her resume before she leaves for her next gig, to slow down and open the new school as a 9-11 school when it’s ready. Some families will balk at a 9-10 school that has more limited courses and sports than a regular school.

[Anonymous]

Nearly 300 local parents have already signed a petition calling on Dr. Reid and the school board to make the KAA site a traditional community high school, not a magnet school.

Coverage in this morning's Fairfax County Times here: https://www.fairfaxtimes.com/articles/fairfax_county/

If you want to sign the petition, you can do so here: https://forms.gle/aW3XkRgTnEcRX24UA

[Anonymous]

Only 265 signatories? I would have expected more.

But I guess we can tell from the article who is posting constantly here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Only 265 signatories? I would have expected more.

But I guess we can tell from the article who is posting constantly here.

Surprisingly, social media is the only way most people know. So little real local news.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Only 265 signatories? I would have expected more.

But I guess we can tell from the article who is posting constantly here.

I'm not in the article and I post here. I see your attempt to claim support for the local school is limited, when in reality there are two 22066 posters patrolling all the threads trying to get their last words in anytime anyone says anything positive for the new high school.

[Anonymous]

I live near KAA and lean toward supporting it being a neighborhood school but don’t want my name to be publicly available on the petition. I suspect others are on the same boat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nearly 300 local parents have already signed a petition calling on Dr. Reid and the school board to make the KAA site a traditional community high school, not a magnet school.

Coverage in this morning's Fairfax County Times here: https://www.fairfaxtimes.com/articles/fairfax_county/

If you want to sign the petition, you can do so here: https://forms.gle/aW3XkRgTnEcRX24UA

you will get many more support if you post it in the facebook of all the elementary and middle schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nearly 300 local parents have already signed a petition calling on Dr. Reid and the school board to make the KAA site a traditional community high school, not a magnet school.

Coverage in this morning's Fairfax County Times here: https://www.fairfaxtimes.com/articles/fairfax_county/

If you want to sign the petition, you can do so here: https://forms.gle/aW3XkRgTnEcRX24UA

you will get many more support if you post it in the facebook of all the elementary and middle schools.

A typical Change.org petition gets more support. It probably has more to do with the platform than the cause. People have reservations about Google Docs.

https://www.lifewire.com/how-to-see-who-has-viewed-a-google-doc-5525643

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I live near KAA and lean toward supporting it being a neighborhood school but don’t want my name to be publicly available on the petition. I suspect others are on the same boat.

Same here.

I just email school board members instead. Kyle McDaniel seems to understand.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Only 265 signatories? I would have expected more.

But I guess we can tell from the article who is posting constantly here.

I'm not in the article and I post here. I see your attempt to claim support for the local school is limited, when in reality there are two 22066 posters patrolling all the threads trying to get their last words in anytime anyone says anything positive for the new high school.

DP. wtf are you talking about? Those great falls nextdoor posters seek more disclosure about the school. Given the fact that it’s been several months since the purchase was announced, id think you’d also want a little more disclosure too, especially since it seems headed for at least half a magnet school.

[Anonymous]

Here's a relevant excerpt from a summary of the last BRAC meeting prepared by one of the FairFACTS Matters representatives:

"Map for Western High School Being Drawn: It was announced that FCPS is constructing a draft boundary map for Western High School if it were to operate as a standard school in the county, but the map will not be completed in time for consideration in the current county-wide boundary review process. BRAC members have repeatedly voiced frustration with FCPS’s refusal to incorporate Western High School planning into the current comprehensive boundary review given the likelihood of boundary adjustments to build out the new school’s student membership."