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FCPS is turning the new high school purchased to fix crowding into an Aviation magnet school instead of a high school??
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Anonymous
Mmhhmm, okay Vanessa. We totally believe you. |
Anonymous
| Wouldn’t the board want to move a subset of kids from Herndon into KAA, then moving kids from Forestville to Herndon, to allow for kids to move from McLean to Langley due to over utilization? |
Anonymous
I’ll take your question as a genuine one, though I would not be surprised if you are just trying to mask your opinion as a naive question. KAA, if used as a neighborhood school, will likely pull from the south and east. I’m not saying that they’d never move students from Herndon, but that seems unlikely given the overcrowding in schools to the south. It becomes even less likely if they make the school a split neighborhood /magnet school. |
Anonymous
DP. No. Your analysis is wrong. They can move kids from McLean and Marshall into Langley without moving anyone out of Langley because Langley can cut back on the 100+ pupil placements it is currently accepting. If in five years Langley is over 105% capacity despite shutting down the pupil placements, which could happen if there’s growth in the part of Tysons slated to move to Langley, they can look at moving part of Langley to Herndon. But KAA won’t be taking kids from Herndon. If it’s a neighborhood school, it will take kids from Westfield and Chantilly, and then possibly Oakton or South Lakes. The only relevance of KAA to Herndon is that, if KAA takes a lot of kids from Westfield, it leaves Langley with the only nearby neighborhoods that can fill some of the hundreds of empty seats they are projecting at Herndon. But they could also fill many of those seats if they added AAP to Herndon MS and shut down all the pupil placements from Herndon to South Lakes, which are ostensibly for IB but are primarily to avoid Herndon and/or kids looking to stay with other AAP kids who’d attended Hughes. |
Anonymous
Let’s have more efficient capital spending where the money is directed to where it’s most needed before some SB shill comes on here and bloviates about an “efficiently distributed set of boundaries.” Otherwise you’re just asking families to compensate for poor FCPS decision-making. |
Anonymous
So all of the above? I’m glad we agree. |
Anonymous
If you agree FCPS has its priorities wrong and demonstrates an uncanny ability to repeatedly put the cart before the horse (focusing on a name for the new western HS before confirming it will be a neighborhood school is but one recent example), then, yes, we agree. |
Anonymous
I agree in an efficient school system. I couldn’t care less when, how, or what they name it. |
Anonymous
I posted the question. Thank you and the person below for the explanation. I am just a worried parent as we moved to this area to stay long term primarily for the schools, and we have small children, so this is all very stressful. |
Anonymous
Please reach out to your school board reps to let them know how you feel. |
Anonymous
Look at Forestville boundaries which were last reviewed/scoped over 20 years ago. Then review ES and MS capacity - note capital projects. No moving Forestville as a Langley pyramid feeder but Forestville ES and Colvin Run ES could have boundary changes with Herndon and South Lakes feeders. We expect that to be in play but Dranesville and Armstrong are not ready...Silly Reid staffers forgot about the major new capacity at Falls Church for 2026, worked off 105%, bused walkers, no big program movement that eats capacity. All of that is not the norm for FCPS except under Reid. McDaniel, at large SB, and Lady, Dranesville, were the names on the all MS get AAP under the 9/25/25 R Anderson item on the agenda. Only NO was Meren who has South Lakes pyramid which benefits from Herndon MS NOT having AAP. Big capacity mismatch from Herndon MS to Herndon HS even if the HS gets some of the Chantilly academies. So the oversized Carson could actually be a split feed MS for KAA site and Herndon. In Oct 2020 FCPS SB had a doc on all MS being AAP - no transfer feeds. 5 years later those board members resurrected it. That should be in the Reid feed to her consultant Thru for the new maps. |
Anonymous
I am not seeing much in here that has to do with the new high school, other than the suggestion that down the road Carson could be a split feeder to KAA and Herndon after it sheds all the AAP kids from Franklin now at Carson. The misalignment of MS and HS in terms of capacities is a larger problem within FCPS, or at least challenge to the extent they are trying to reduce the number of split feeders. No one following this expects KAA to be able to accommodate twice as many kids as Carson, with its program capacity of 1,385, could accommodate. |
Anonymous
Some of those AAP at Carson who come from Franklin are extremely likely to be assigned to KAA if it is a traditional school. Are you at all familiar with this area and are aware of the neighborhood schools? And, I don't see Herndon kids going to Carson if they leave South Lakes--wouldn't the purpose be to assign them to Herndon Middle? |
Anonymous
if this is your agenda then you’ll be ok with the plan to get rid of centers and put AAP in every middle school. if all the herndon AAP students leave hughes and go back to HMS they may be more likely to stay in pyramid for high school rather than transferring to south lakes. there also wouldn’t be room for an entire elementary school to be assigned to HMS. it would go way over capacity. and then langley would be very under capacity. and yes tyson’s may grow more but right now this move makes zero sense |
Anonymous
Why are you responding this way to me? I didn’t say Franklin kids in AAP at Carson might not end up at KAA. Indeed, the Oak Hill kids well might. I was paraphrasing the PP who said Carson might end up a split feeder to kAA and Herndon. I don’t know how likely that is. I do think it’s highly unlikely, given what we know about the relative capacities of Carson and KAA, that we could have Carson at its full program capacity (1,385) and then have all those kids attending KAA. That would imply KAA can handle over 2700 kids, and the latest from the head of FCPS Facilities is that it’s current capacity is closer to 1,300. |