FCPS comprehensive boundary review

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Transportation times is the easiest part of this.

The fcps transportstion office is one of the most efficient offices of fcps.

Ha, says the person responsible for transportation. That’s why the buses are always on time. Oh wait, literally.

Transportation might be a number that they can quantify generally, but how does that factor in to the capacity under over discussion? Thru is way out of its depths.

You sound like someone with wildly unrealistic expectations for a fleet of thousands of daily routes. FCPS transportation is probably the best run office in fcps as it is run and staffed by people promoted up who know their business.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I believe South Lakes is at capacity or close as well. Are Herndon and Langley the only western schools that have significant numbers of empty seats?

Where are there open seats?

I'm curious too. All we hear about on here is space at Herndon and Langley. Where else on the western side is there space for more kids? Westfield, Chantilly, South Lake and Centreville are all at or over capacity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I believe South Lakes is at capacity or close as well. Are Herndon and Langley the only western schools that have significant numbers of empty seats?

Where are there open seats?

I'm curious too. All we hear about on here is space at Herndon and Langley. Where else on the western side is there space for more kids? Westfield, Chantilly, South Lake and Centreville are all at or over capacity.

Herndon has some seats due to the recent expansion but not many. All the other schools in this area are full. You would need to shift kids from Essentially it would involved shifting kids from the not full schools to other nearby not full schools to make space for the full schools. The kids on the border of two schools would shift to the school with seats, which would make some space in the schools that are overcrowed.

[Anonymous]

I think they will wait for Centreville's expansion and then move Virginia Run and/or Poplar Tree to Centreville. That frees room at Westfields for Chantilly kids.

[Anonymous]

Greenbriar East is a split feeder, so they will address that. That will add more kids to Chantilly. Maybe they will move some kids to Fairfax High? All the apartments in Fair Lakes go to Fairfax High, not Chantilly, so would they move Greenbriar East? Time will tell....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think they will wait for Centreville's expansion and then move Virginia Run and/or Poplar Tree to Centreville. That frees room at Westfields for Chantilly kids.

Its Westfield, no s.

You clearly don't know these areas at all.

Virginia Run goes to Stone MS. Poplar Tree goes to Rocky Run. Right now all of Stone goes to Westfield and all the zoned Rocky Run kids go to Chantilly. You are creating more split feeders. Are you changing their middle schools as well? Stone has hundreds of empty seats and Liberty is overcrowded.

[Anonymous]

So many problems that could have been solved by planning and building a new HS

[Anonymous]

I don't even live in that area but I can read a map.

The Virginia Run school zone is the closest residenial area to Westfield, which is located in a mostly non-walkable industrial area. It seems to be one of the only residential areas anywhere close to Westfield.

The Poplar Tree zone is literally walkable to Rocky Run Ms and Chantilly HS.

Why on earth would the SB move either of these areas?

Are some of you this dumb or do you have some ulterior motive in making these bizzare suggestions? Look at a map.

[Anonymous]

The kids zoned for Virginia Run who live in the Meadows trailer park are the only kids walkable to Westfield actually.

[Anonymous]

So to summarize:

Herndon/Great Falls parents zoned for Langley want to make sure they stay at Langley by filling up Herndon HS with kids from outside of Herndon.

Chantilly HS is overcrowded and can't be expanded but Chantilly HS parents do not want to be moved to any other HS.

Centreville HS is overcrowded and due for a renovation that hasn't begun yet.

Westfield HS is mediocre and no one wants their kids moved there, but the Westfield parents also don't want to add even more kids b/c it is already enormous (and I agree, 2700+ is beyond the size of a reasonable HS).

There are hundreds of extra seats at Langley (2100) and at Herndon HS (2300), but these schools are full to overcrowded: South Lakes (2450), Oakton (2600), Chantilly (3000), Centreville (2400), Westfield (2700).

Questions: Why does Langley have so few students? Is the building incredibly small?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So many problems that could have been solved by planning and building a new HS

Agree 100%! FCPS has a huge mismatch between where the HS buildings are and where the students are.

[Anonymous]

These boundaries really are a hot mess

https://www.fcps.edu/sites/default/files/media/pdf/SY2024-25ElementarySchoolBoundarieswithHighSchoolBoundaries.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So to summarize:

Herndon/Great Falls parents zoned for Langley want to make sure they stay at Langley by filling up Herndon HS with kids from outside of Herndon.

Chantilly HS is overcrowded and can't be expanded but Chantilly HS parents do not want to be moved to any other HS.

Centreville HS is overcrowded and due for a renovation that hasn't begun yet.

Westfield HS is mediocre and no one wants their kids moved there, but the Westfield parents also don't want to add even more kids b/c it is already enormous (and I agree, 2700+ is beyond the size of a reasonable HS).

There are hundreds of extra seats at Langley (2100) and at Herndon HS (2300), but these schools are full to overcrowded: South Lakes (2450), Oakton (2600), Chantilly (3000), Centreville (2400), Westfield (2700).

Questions: Why does Langley have so few students? Is the building incredibly small?

Not really. It mostly has to do with the poor planning when the population of Fairfax County expanded outside the Beltway. High Schools typically had a capacity around 2,000 students. Now land is too expensive in Fairfax County to build more high schools, so they just keep expanding the existing campuses into mega-schools.

[Anonymous]

Never realized before how huge geographically the Westfield and Langley zones are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:These boundaries really are a hot mess

https://www.fcps.edu/sites/default/files/media/pdf/SY2024-25ElementarySchoolBoundarieswithHighSchoolBoundaries.pdf

What I’ve found interesting about these boundary threads is that whenever you point out an egregious example, someone is able to explain exactly what happened and why. The school board has a long history of folding at the whim of angry parents.