King Abdullah Academy Closing: FCPS Buy for HS?

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Anonymous wrote:^^The optics of a luxurious new school building--way nicer than any other fcps school-- being filled almost entirely with wealthy kids is not their vibe.

I'm not sure why you think this would be entirely wealthy kids? I don't think McNair and Coates have particularly wealthy populations.

The only thing that could really change the FARMS rate would be if they moved one of the high FARMS areas out of Coates to an ES in the Herndon pyramid and then onto HMS/HHS. I believe this is one of the scenarios under consideration to relieve crowding at Coates - one of the schools that is really the most overcrowded at FCPS right now. However with the KAA purchase, perhaps new scenarios will be created.

I think the Coates area with the highest FARMS rate already is in Herndon boundary. In addition, I THINK the Extended Stay in that area IS in the Westfield boundary. I have been told that it houses homeless/struggling famillies, but do not know for sure. There is tons of new construction in that area that is not low income--though it is not single family.

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Yes the extended stay hotel is where that Westfield kid was murdered last year.

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Carson has over 17% FARMS. However, it is also over 50% AAP. So, I am guessing that it would be well above 20% FARMS.

Right now, Carson has Coates, McNair, Floris, Fox Mill, Crossfield plus AAP Oak Hill, AAP Lees Corner, and AAP Navy. So that is why it skews lower than 20.
I find it doubtful that Crossfield, Fox Mill, and Oak Hill will all be in the new school. My guess is two of them.

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Anonymous wrote:Carson has over 17% FARMS. However, it is also over 50% AAP. So, I am guessing that it would be well above 20% FARMS.

Right now, Carson has Coates, McNair, Floris, Fox Mill, Crossfield plus AAP Oak Hill, AAP Lees Corner, and AAP Navy. So that is why it skews lower than 20.
I find it doubtful that Crossfield, Fox Mill, and Oak Hill will all be in the new school. My guess is two of them.

Of the three, I think Oak Hill is for sure in because it’s solves the capacity issue at Chantilly and also is closest to KAA.

Not sure what happens between Crossfield and Fox Mill.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Carson has over 17% FARMS. However, it is also over 50% AAP. So, I am guessing that it would be well above 20% FARMS.

Right now, Carson has Coates, McNair, Floris, Fox Mill, Crossfield plus AAP Oak Hill, AAP Lees Corner, and AAP Navy. So that is why it skews lower than 20.
I find it doubtful that Crossfield, Fox Mill, and Oak Hill will all be in the new school. My guess is two of them.

Of the three, I think Oak Hill is for sure in because it’s solves the capacity issue at Chantilly and also is closest to KAA.

Not sure what happens between Crossfield and Fox Mill.

What happens is that many Fox Mill families want to go to the new school and little crossfield families want to move. I'd say TOO MANY Fox Mill people (deep in SLHS territory) want to move to the new HS that they think the only way is to advocating Crossfield backfilling them in SLHS. Thanks for the laugh.

FCPS is going to make the adjustment least disruptive possible. They'll move the far western portion of SLHS and Oakton HS into the new high school, that's it. No oakton to SLHS move, no Langley to Herndon HS move. Why stir up a hornet's nest?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Carson has over 17% FARMS. However, it is also over 50% AAP. So, I am guessing that it would be well above 20% FARMS.

Right now, Carson has Coates, McNair, Floris, Fox Mill, Crossfield plus AAP Oak Hill, AAP Lees Corner, and AAP Navy. So that is why it skews lower than 20.
I find it doubtful that Crossfield, Fox Mill, and Oak Hill will all be in the new school. My guess is two of them.

Of the three, I think Oak Hill is for sure in because it’s solves the capacity issue at Chantilly and also is closest to KAA.

Not sure what happens between Crossfield and Fox Mill.

What happens is that many Fox Mill families want to go to the new school and little crossfield families want to move. I'd say TOO MANY Fox Mill people (deep in SLHS territory) want to move to the new HS that they think the only way is to advocating Crossfield backfilling them in SLHS. Thanks for the laugh.

FCPS is going to make the adjustment least disruptive possible. They'll move the far western portion of SLHS and Oakton HS into the new high school, that's it. No oakton to SLHS move, no Langley to Herndon HS move. Why stir up a hornet's nest?

If Crossfield resists a move to KAA that might actually give them the cleanest solution for aligning middle schools. Send Oak Hill to Carson and Crossfield to Franklin (send anyone at Franklin from Westfield to Stone.) Then Carson feeds entirely to KAA and Franklin only splits between Chantilly and Oakton. There isn’t enough room at Hughes to take all of Fox Mill, even if they send Herndon AAP students to another center. Carson also continues the Fox Mill Japanese immersion program, which makes them slightly more difficult to decouple.

[Anonymous]

From Northern Virginia Magazine:

Some board members, including Karl Frisch, noted that there were still “lots of decisions to be made” regarding the school. This may include discussions of whether it will become a magnet school…

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^ This is one of the original articles from a week ago. No new info here.

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Anonymous wrote:^ This is one of the original articles from a week ago. No new info here.

There are a lot of posters here who keep claiming that it won’t be a magnet school, but at this point Frisch and Dunne have mentioned this as a possibility.

Seems quite possible.

[Anonymous]

Seems like it would be incredibly foolish given a western HS has been promised for ten years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^ This is one of the original articles from a week ago. No new info here.

There are a lot of posters here who keep claiming that it won’t be a magnet school, but at this point Frisch and Dunne have mentioned this as a possibility.

Seems quite possible.

Anything is possible, but realistically this School Board is not inclined to create more competitive magnet schools. The Democrats don't have the courage to do away with TJ, but they sure as hell don't want to replicate it.

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I wouldn't mind a second TJ, there is more than enough interest and having one in this part of the County would reduce the commute time for a lot of kids. It isn't going to happen. First, here is a need for a HS to relieve the schools in the Western part of the county. Second, TJ has caused everyone more than enough headaches, they are not going down that path again. And finally, TJ is what it is because of specialized labs and programs that are costly, which I don't see FCPS paying for. T

If there is an aviation program, it will be an academy. Not knowing the full lay out of the KAA campus, I have read that there is the main building and two office buildings. Maybe one of the office buildings is converted into a space for an aviation academy with dedicated classrooms for the program.

I can see some of the School Board being stupid enough to suggest something else for KAA but the majority of the School Board should be able to read the room and realize what buying this building without public discussion and not using it for the Western HS will mean for their political careers.

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The only place i have heard anyone mention an aviation acadmey is on here.

No one wants their kids taking flight attendant or baggage handler classes.

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Anonymous wrote:The only place i have heard anyone mention an aviation acadmey is on here.

No one wants their kids taking flight attendant or baggage handler classes.

I would guess it would be more mechanics, pilots, and air traffic control type functions. I could easily see a plane mechanics type class and even intro classes need for flying smaller planes. I know very little about air traffic control, that might be out of the reach of a HS program. Mechanics in the military tend to be enlisted, so I don't think it is out of the realm of possibility that there are airplane specific classes on engine maintenance that could be taught.

I am not saying I want to see it, just thinking about what it would entail.

[Anonymous]

I suspect the people pushing a magnet school do not want the relief for the nearby community. They still think it is "insurance" to protect others from a move.