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What Does FCPS Do with Excess Capacity at Herndon HS
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Anonymous
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Herndon HS got expanded to handle 2779 students and FCPS is projecting an enrollment of 1920 kids at HHS in SY 2028-29.
So what happens: 1 - They wait and see if Silver Line growth requires an adjustment of the Herndon/Westfield boundaries. The areas near the new Silver Line stations are zoned to Westfield, not Herndon. 2 - They move part of Great Falls zoned to Langley to Herndon. The Forestville ES area in Great Falls used to go to Herndon and is closer to Herndon than Langley. 3 - Nothing. |
Anonymous
You seem hyper-focused on trying to will 2. into existence. It’s getting old, and it’s a weird fixation. Also, opening up a new thread on this is lame when the prior recent threads have been heavily focused on this because you keep bringing it up there. Perhaps you should consider running for a future school board based on your redistricting crusade. You could see how intensely unpopular your platform is. |
Anonymous
| You must have me confused with someone else. I’m just asking what people think FCPS is most likely to do if Herndon has over 850 extra seats in the future. Chill out. |
Anonymous
No need for a separate topic thread here, this has been discussed at naseam in the prior posts. |
Anonymous
| FCPS will do nothing. FCPS is very reticent to move kids from highly regarded schools to schools people avoid. Annandale's rezoning still has neighborhoods who hate gatehouse years later. |
Anonymous
| I appreciate the thread. Did FCPS not expect Herndon’s enrollment to decline when they expanded the school? Or do they have something else in mind? |
Anonymous
| When VA builds the casino in Tysons, people will move out of McLean and into Herndon pyramid. LOL. |
Anonymous
| Just have Westfield give up the Coates kids, and that would more or less alleviate any need for a new high school. Thought that would push up the poverty at Herndon even more. Feel bad for the Aldrin/Armstrong kids kids though, back 20 years ago if you told anyone Herndon FARM percentage would jump from 15 percent to over 50 they would have laughed at your ass. |
Anonymous
Coates is indeed the ES in the Westfield pyramid that would get most of the potential new housing near the Silver Line - mix of apartments and new townhouses. |
Anonymous
Its also nowhere near Westfield! It doesn't really make geographic sense for those kids to go all the way out there. |
Anonymous
| Coates is closer to Westfield (7.5 miles) than Forestville is to Langley (10.4 miles). |
Anonymous
Herndon HS is 2 1/2 miles closer. But because of traffic patterns, it takes roughly the same amount of time to get to HHS as it does to Westfield. |
Anonymous
| It's strange that the adopted FY 2024-28 CIP projected Herndon to have 2329 students in 2027-28, but the draft FY 2025-29 CIP only projects Herndon to have 1932 students in 2027-28 (and 1920 in 2028-29). I get a bit suspicious about FCPS's intentions when the numbers change that much in one year. |
Anonymous
The CIP projections are essentially useless. I've checked schools off by +/-10% and probably more if you actually go through every single school's historical projection accuracy (available on their tableau dashboard). Nothing actually happens regardless unless it's that school's turn in the queue. Just more "monitor student membership" as the primary strategy. |
Anonymous
The queue is about renovations. Enrollment numbers and projections factor into possible boundary changes. |