LCPS School Rezoning?

[Anonymous]

Anyone know what the plans is for this? They seem to be keeping it very quiet.

[Anonymous]

released October 13th -

[Anonymous]

Follow Beth Barts on Facebook, she has been discussing this. If you're zoned for one of the central Leesburg high schools in particular there could be some movement (which I guess would then impact the middle and elementary schools in the pyramids). Loudoun County High School is overcrowded, Tuscarora has lots of space.

[Anonymous]

Basically they need to rebalance Tuscarora and Loudoun County. Some kids zoned for Heritage live in neighborhoods close to Riverside and could probably go there to alleviate Heritage crowding. Why independence isn’t on that list when it’s over capacity 3 years in while Rock Ridge sits half empty (literally- 1200 kids enrolled) is insane. Some new developments being built in Sterling may go to Park View.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Basically they need to rebalance Tuscarora and Loudoun County. Some kids zoned for Heritage live in neighborhoods close to Riverside and could probably go there to alleviate Heritage crowding. Why independence isn’t on that list when it’s over capacity 3 years in while Rock Ridge sits half empty (literally- 1200 kids enrolled) is insane. Some new developments being built in Sterling may go to Park View.

I think Riverside is close to capacity. The kids you might be thinking of who currently attend Heritage (River Creek neighborhood?) I believe might get rezoned to Tuscarora under the current plan.

Another related issue is that Heritage was selected to be one of the two schools in Loudoun for the IB program starting soon... the expectation is that this will drive up the number of special permission requests to attend Heritage by a lot, pushing it way to capacity. (The other site is Loudoun Valley HS in Purcellville.) So that's not helping with the crowding issues in central Loudoun.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Basically they need to rebalance Tuscarora and Loudoun County. Some kids zoned for Heritage live in neighborhoods close to Riverside and could probably go there to alleviate Heritage crowding. Why independence isn’t on that list when it’s over capacity 3 years in while Rock Ridge sits half empty (literally- 1200 kids enrolled) is insane. Some new developments being built in Sterling may go to Park View.

I think Riverside is close to capacity. The kids you might be thinking of who currently attend Heritage (River Creek neighborhood?) I believe might get rezoned to Tuscarora under the current plan.

Another related issue is that Heritage was selected to be one of the two schools in Loudoun for the IB program starting soon... the expectation is that this will drive up the number of special permission requests to attend Heritage by a lot, pushing it way to capacity. (The other site is Loudoun Valley HS in Purcellville.) So that's not helping with the crowding issues in central Loudoun.

River Creek parents will lose their mind if they pay those house prices , taxes and HOA fees for their kids to get sent to Tuscarora.

[Anonymous]

Looks like a bunch of Stonebridge families may be sent to Broad Run as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Basically they need to rebalance Tuscarora and Loudoun County. Some kids zoned for Heritage live in neighborhoods close to Riverside and could probably go there to alleviate Heritage crowding. Why independence isn’t on that list when it’s over capacity 3 years in while Rock Ridge sits half empty (literally- 1200 kids enrolled) is insane. Some new developments being built in Sterling may go to Park View.

I think Riverside is close to capacity. The kids you might be thinking of who currently attend Heritage (River Creek neighborhood?) I believe might get rezoned to Tuscarora under the current plan.

Another related issue is that Heritage was selected to be one of the two schools in Loudoun for the IB program starting soon... the expectation is that this will drive up the number of special permission requests to attend Heritage by a lot, pushing it way to capacity. (The other site is Loudoun Valley HS in Purcellville.) So that's not helping with the crowding issues in central Loudoun.

River Creek parents will lose their mind if they pay those house prices , taxes and HOA fees for their kids to get sent to Tuscarora.

Why? Heritage sucks too. So does Frances Hazel Reid. I think most of the people paying River Creek prices end up paying for Loudoun Country Day. No one is in that neighborhood for the schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Looks like a bunch of Stonebridge families may be sent to Broad Run as well.

Where are you seeing that being reported? I know parents are freaking out about it, especially those us who went through the last ugly Ashburn rezoning, but so far I've only seen rumors. The numbers at Stone Bridge and Trailside are lower than capacity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looks like a bunch of Stonebridge families may be sent to Broad Run as well.

Where are you seeing that being reported? I know parents are freaking out about it, especially those us who went through the last ugly Ashburn rezoning, but so far I've only seen rumors. The numbers at Stone Bridge and Trailside are lower than capacity.

DP, but we are in an elementary school in the Broad Run pyramid and have been told that there’s a high potential for reasoning here, too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looks like a bunch of Stonebridge families may be sent to Broad Run as well.

Where are you seeing that being reported? I know parents are freaking out about it, especially those us who went through the last ugly Ashburn rezoning, but so far I've only seen rumors. The numbers at Stone Bridge and Trailside are lower than capacity.

DP, but we are in an elementary school in the Broad Run pyramid and have been told that there’s a high potential for reasoning here, too.

Rezoning, not reasoning. Autocorrect strikes again.

[Anonymous]

This is going to be the new norm with all the "up zoning" taking place. All that density leads to overcrowded schools and then redistricting. It drives me bonkers that when developers take the money and run, schools are left holding the bag.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looks like a bunch of Stonebridge families may be sent to Broad Run as well.

Where are you seeing that being reported? I know parents are freaking out about it, especially those us who went through the last ugly Ashburn rezoning, but so far I've only seen rumors. The numbers at Stone Bridge and Trailside are lower than capacity.

Here you go. Its confirmed that area is one of the areas going under official review this fall.

https://www.lcps.org/Page/246406?fbclid=IwAR3KoEsYbZdeJzEh9gUaruLEiQi2r9TdHjM--9s9_rp9uH5di-ziut94FSA

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Basically they need to rebalance Tuscarora and Loudoun County. Some kids zoned for Heritage live in neighborhoods close to Riverside and could probably go there to alleviate Heritage crowding. Why independence isn’t on that list when it’s over capacity 3 years in while Rock Ridge sits half empty (literally- 1200 kids enrolled) is insane. Some new developments being built in Sterling may go to Park View.

I think Riverside is close to capacity. The kids you might be thinking of who currently attend Heritage (River Creek neighborhood?) I believe might get rezoned to Tuscarora under the current plan.

Another related issue is that Heritage was selected to be one of the two schools in Loudoun for the IB program starting soon... the expectation is that this will drive up the number of special permission requests to attend Heritage by a lot, pushing it way to capacity. (The other site is Loudoun Valley HS in Purcellville.) So that's not helping with the crowding issues in central Loudoun.

River Creek parents will lose their mind if they pay those house prices , taxes and HOA fees for their kids to get sent to Tuscarora.

Let's talk about that attitude which is really fueled by racism and entitlement. Tuscarora has too many black kids for the parents in Landsdowne/Riverside. That's really what you are referring to. Rock Ridge was supposed to be built before Riverside because of the crazy crowding at the high schools in that part of Ashburn but one of the school board reps made sure her Landsdowne constitutents were taken care of before everyone else. Why does everyone who is not black avoid Tuscarora?

The amount of money you pay for your house should not have any determination as to where you go to school in a public school system.

[Anonymous]

I lived through my kids going to 3 different elementary schools. When I moved to Ashburn we were told they were building an elementary school within walking distance of my neighborhood. My kids went to 2 different middle schools. The kids in my kids middle school were split and sent to 2 different high schools. It sucks and had I known it would be this bad I never would have moved to Ashburn.