Boundary Review Meetings

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Anonymous wrote:Chantilly manages to pick up students!

The Oak Hill area that picked up students will be going to the new high school though, so not really.

They moved some Greenbriar East kids to RR and Chantilly, from Johnson/Fairfax. There's a lot of kids over there, so they're basically just going to swap kids, not really reduce overcrowding at Chantilly with moving Oak Hill to KAA.

I have a feeling Chantilly is losing Oak Hill to KAA and a second elementary school to Westfield…

Oak Hill parent here. I'm still thinking they might try and send Oak Hill to Westfield. In the past that was being considered. If they pull Floris, Coates, and McNair out of Westfield that's a lot of kids and they will need to backfill some to Westfield.

Thankfully Oakton isn't being considered. Good school, but an awful commute.

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Anonymous wrote:Sandy Anderson managed to get Rolling Valley added to WSHS. Unbelievable.

Rolling Valley already is zoned for WSHS.

No, the Rolling Valley neighborhoods north of the Fairfax County Parkway which were going to Key and Lewis. Now they go to Irving and WSHS. The Rolling Valley neighborhoods sound of the parkway move to Saratoga and stay at Key and Lewis. They're taking the expensive homes and moving them into WSHS zone.

THat's all right except the last sentence. The homes staying at RVES and then switching from Key/Lewis to Irving/WSHS are all townhomes. Nice townhomes, but townhomes. It's just one small community. The single family homes north of those townhomes have always been RVES/Irving/WSHS. The RVES homes that are switching to Saratoga and staying at Key/Lewis are overall really nice single family homes.

But yes to a PP that they closed that Sangster ES split feeder but then added kids from RVES to WSHS. There aren't a ton of high school aged kids in those townhomes right now because they all move when they get to middle school, but I predict it will end up adding quite a lot of kids to WSHS down the road (see Daventry . . . )

In 2 years, that neighborhood will bring more students than Sangster is removing.

What a joke.

Sandy Anderson should never hold office again

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Chantilly manages to pick up students!

The Oak Hill area that picked up students will be going to the new high school though, so not really.

They moved some Greenbriar East kids to RR and Chantilly, from Johnson/Fairfax. There's a lot of kids over there, so they're basically just going to swap kids, not really reduce overcrowding at Chantilly with moving Oak Hill to KAA.

I have a feeling Chantilly is losing Oak Hill to KAA and a second elementary school to Westfield…

I would be surprised because they put that neighborhood near the Wegmans, which is closest to Westfield, back at Chantilly.

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Yeah you can drive over there and see for yourself - large, nice TH’s. Some with garages too. Not small 2 bedroom units with no basements or whatever. Families will 100% live in those, just as they already do in the other TH neighborhoods in WS, and WSHS will stay over crowded - at least for now and the foreseeable future, until demographics really do their thing.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah you can drive over there and see for yourself - large, nice TH’s. Some with garages too. Not small 2 bedroom units with no basements or whatever. Families will 100% live in those, just as they already do in the other TH neighborhoods in WS, and WSHS will stay over crowded - at least for now and the foreseeable future, until demographics really do their thing.

It will be more students than live in the Sangster neighborhood

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah you can drive over there and see for yourself - large, nice TH’s. Some with garages too. Not small 2 bedroom units with no basements or whatever. Families will 100% live in those, just as they already do in the other TH neighborhoods in WS, and WSHS will stay over crowded - at least for now and the foreseeable future, until demographics really do their thing.

All of the feeder ES to WSHS are projecting decreased numbers. The overcrowding “problem” is a myth that will go away soon.

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Anonymous wrote:Only people pissed off on this thread in the south-central part of the county are people already zoned for Lewis who wanted WSHS neighborhoods rezoned so they could feel better about themselves.

They were never taking kids out of WS to Lewis. That was a delulu proposal. Even taking them out to South County would be a little difficult since SC MS/HS are smaller and there is still development happening in Lorton. You potentially trade one over capacity school for another. Might as well just move the trailers a few exits down 95 from WS to SC at that point.

The idea that they're moving kids out of Lewis and over to WSHS is insane. They move the neighborhoods over near Sangster to LBSS to close the split feeder which makes sense, although some families over there are clearly upset about it. But it doesn't make sense to add more neighborhoods into WSHS when it's as overcrowded as they claim it is.

Sandy Anderson herself advocated for that move, interestingly enough …

Sandy Anderson met with the Sangster folks in April and basically said she was going to prioritize Rolling Valley kids. I agree this will actually cause more issues for WS in the long run. She is a complete joke.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah you can drive over there and see for yourself - large, nice TH’s. Some with garages too. Not small 2 bedroom units with no basements or whatever. Families will 100% live in those, just as they already do in the other TH neighborhoods in WS, and WSHS will stay over crowded - at least for now and the foreseeable future, until demographics really do their thing.

All of the feeder ES to WSHS are projecting decreased numbers. The overcrowding “problem” is a myth that will go away soon.

FCPS is garbage at making projections and all their plans are stupid, unless those projections support your goals and then all of the sudden they are exactly correct.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah you can drive over there and see for yourself - large, nice TH’s. Some with garages too. Not small 2 bedroom units with no basements or whatever. Families will 100% live in those, just as they already do in the other TH neighborhoods in WS, and WSHS will stay over crowded - at least for now and the foreseeable future, until demographics really do their thing.

All of the feeder ES to WSHS are projecting decreased numbers. The overcrowding “problem” is a myth that will go away soon.

FCPS is garbage at making projections and all their plans are stupid, unless those projections support your goals and then all of the sudden they are exactly correct.

Exactly this.

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Anonymous wrote:I guess the TL- McLean families got their way. Now they can go back to not caring about the Title 1 families now that they have used them to get wheat they want.

Give it 5 years and Timber Lane will not be Title I anymore.

I'm not so sure about that.

If you look at Scenario 4 for Timber Lane, they are proposing to move some of the low-income areas now at TL north of Route 29 to Shrevewood (while keeping them at McLean, so Shrevewood becomes a new split feeder to Marshall and McLean), BUT the Timber Lane area south of Route 29 would now be a new attendance island that is very high FARMS (Kingsley Commons). Graham Road, not Timber Lane, is the school that will see its FARMS rate decline.

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Amazing how the neighborhood by the old Graham Rd school is now an attendance island for Timber Lane.

At least they got rid of the ridiculous cutout where kids adjacent to Marshall would be going to McLean.

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Glad they realized moving the Navy island across the parkway to Oak Hill was a mistake, but not sure why they didn't put it in Crossfield with the rest of Franklin Farm.

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Anonymous wrote:I guess the TL- McLean families got their way. Now they can go back to not caring about the Title 1 families now that they have used them to get wheat they want.

Give it 5 years and Timber Lane will not be Title I anymore.

I'm not so sure about that.

If you look at Scenario 4 for Timber Lane, they are proposing to move some of the low-income areas now at TL north of Route 29 to Shrevewood (while keeping them at McLean, so Shrevewood becomes a new split feeder to Marshall and McLean), BUT the Timber Lane area south of Route 29 would now be a new attendance island that is very high FARMS (Kingsley Commons). Graham Road, not Timber Lane, is the school that will see its FARMS rate decline.

Exactly. Graham Road will be largely SFHs. Kingsley Commons is getting screwed. The better route would be to keep all the boundaries the way they currently are and send the Jefferson Village/Pine Spring attendance island to Timber Lane. That way Shrevewood isn’t a split feeder and Kingsley Commons has better access to their school.

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Anonymous wrote:Only people pissed off on this thread in the south-central part of the county are people already zoned for Lewis who wanted WSHS neighborhoods rezoned so they could feel better about themselves.

They were never taking kids out of WS to Lewis. That was a delulu proposal. Even taking them out to South County would be a little difficult since SC MS/HS are smaller and there is still development happening in Lorton. You potentially trade one over capacity school for another. Might as well just move the trailers a few exits down 95 from WS to SC at that point.

The idea that they're moving kids out of Lewis and over to WSHS is insane. They move the neighborhoods over near Sangster to LBSS to close the split feeder which makes sense, although some families over there are clearly upset about it. But it doesn't make sense to add more neighborhoods into WSHS when it's as overcrowded as they claim it is.

There's only a minuscule number of kids switching from Lewis to WSHS. There's nothing "insane" about it.

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Anonymous wrote:Only people pissed off on this thread in the south-central part of the county are people already zoned for Lewis who wanted WSHS neighborhoods rezoned so they could feel better about themselves.

They were never taking kids out of WS to Lewis. That was a delulu proposal. Even taking them out to South County would be a little difficult since SC MS/HS are smaller and there is still development happening in Lorton. You potentially trade one over capacity school for another. Might as well just move the trailers a few exits down 95 from WS to SC at that point.

The idea that they're moving kids out of Lewis and over to WSHS is insane. They move the neighborhoods over near Sangster to LBSS to close the split feeder which makes sense, although some families over there are clearly upset about it. But it doesn't make sense to add more neighborhoods into WSHS when it's as overcrowded as they claim it is.

There's only a minuscule number of kids switching from Lewis to WSHS. There's nothing "insane" about it.

That was the same argument Daventry made years ago when they petitioned to move into WSHS.