Boundary Review Meetings

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Scenario 4 turns Thoreau into a monster with 1436 kids. And then, if they decide in another year or two that every middle school should have AAP, all the AAP kids from Thoreau at Jackson and Kilmer come flooding back into the pyramid, further driving up the enrollment. So either they won't be able to make that change to have AAP at every middle school for another five years, or they'll end up changing some boundaries repeatedly over the next five years.

I have kids at Thoreau. Not enough kids go to Jackson/Kilmer AAP from Thoreau to cause a ‘flood.’ Thoreau already has a robust (by enrollment standards) AAP program.

Between Jackson and Kilmer, about 130 kids transfer for AAP. That would take 1560 kids in a school designed for 1380. School that was at 104% capacity goes to 113%

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is there a written out list of changes to go along with the boundary explorer? Because I find it very difficult to see anything but my own specific address with it. Even in my own community, it’s hard to envision the changes with the map.
I’d like to know how many current households are added/subtracted with each change

The confusion is by design.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
I doubt the whole Oak Hill would go to KAA. But maybe Emerald Chase goes to South Lakes and the rest of Oak Hill go to KAA.

Remember currently Emerald Chase kids (and Bradley Farm kids south of West Ox) go to Westfield. Moving them to KAA won’t give relief to Chantilly.

I don't take it for granted that Thru and the school board will do what makes sense, but what makes sense is to send Emerald Chase to KAA with the rest of Oak Hill in order to keep pyramids aligned (and, assuming the Franklin Middle School kids get redistricted for Carson, to eliminate a split feeder).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is there a written out list of changes to go along with the boundary explorer? Because I find it very difficult to see anything but my own specific address with it. Even in my own community, it’s hard to envision the changes with the map.
I’d like to know how many current households are added/subtracted with each change

when you go to the meeting for your pyramid you will get that information. They shared it last night for the pyramids listed for the meeting.

[Anonymous]

You can click on the dot of a particular school and see the number change for scenario 4 in the school profile

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Scenario 4 turns Thoreau into a monster with 1436 kids. And then, if they decide in another year or two that every middle school should have AAP, all the AAP kids from Thoreau at Jackson and Kilmer come flooding back into the pyramid, further driving up the enrollment. So either they won't be able to make that change to have AAP at every middle school for another five years, or they'll end up changing some boundaries repeatedly over the next five years.

I have kids at Thoreau. Not enough kids go to Jackson/Kilmer AAP from Thoreau to cause a ‘flood.’ Thoreau already has a robust (by enrollment standards) AAP program.

Between Jackson and Kilmer, about 130 kids transfer for AAP. That would take 1560 kids in a school designed for 1380. School that was at 104% capacity goes to 113%

Answering myself, but what could happen with Thoreau, is once the AAP kids return from Jackson, the Oakton kids at Thoreau could be reassigned to Jackson to balance the enrollments.

[Anonymous]

People are locked in on the number of homes for whatever reason. Only seems to be Lewis parents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People are locked in on the number of homes for whatever reason. Only seems to be Lewis parents.

It’s tricky too. Looking at houses doesn’t help much. They need to look at number school aged children. As many said, there are students who transferred elsewhere to avoid Lewis, but will likely return to fcps if they are WSHS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
I doubt the whole Oak Hill would go to KAA. But maybe Emerald Chase goes to South Lakes and the rest of Oak Hill go to KAA.

Remember currently Emerald Chase kids (and Bradley Farm kids south of West Ox) go to Westfield. Moving them to KAA won’t give relief to Chantilly.

I don't take it for granted that Thru and the school board will do what makes sense, but what makes sense is to send Emerald Chase to KAA with the rest of Oak Hill in order to keep pyramids aligned (and, assuming the Franklin Middle School kids get redistricted for Carson, to eliminate a split feeder).

I agree. The school board has an opportunity to build an actual school pyramid with no split feeders with just making a few changes. I hope they don’t find a way to screw that up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
I doubt the whole Oak Hill would go to KAA. But maybe Emerald Chase goes to South Lakes and the rest of Oak Hill go to KAA.

Remember currently Emerald Chase kids (and Bradley Farm kids south of West Ox) go to Westfield. Moving them to KAA won’t give relief to Chantilly.

I don't take it for granted that Thru and the school board will do what makes sense, but what makes sense is to send Emerald Chase to KAA with the rest of Oak Hill in order to keep pyramids aligned (and, assuming the Franklin Middle School kids get redistricted for Carson, to eliminate a split feeder).

I agree. The school board has an opportunity to build an actual school pyramid with no split feeders with just making a few changes. I hope they don’t find a way to screw that up.

It is going to be very difficult to do that. Franklin and Carson are about 1.5 miles from each other.
They could send the Westfield kids who go to Franklin to Rocky Run. Then, they could make Franklin a Chantilly/Oakton split.
Carson could be South Lakes/KAA.

A lot depends on who they send to KAA. They need to determine that before switching middle schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People are locked in on the number of homes for whatever reason. Only seems to be Lewis parents.

There are WAY more than 20 high school students living in those 282 Lewis townhomes getting rezoned to WSHS.

It is probably closer to 50 high school students. Maybe more. Maybe less.

There are around 8-9 students per grade at the elementary level from that neighborhood getting rezoned to WSHS from Lewis, approximately 60 elementary students total.

FCPS is estimating 20 students, which is roughly 3 students per grade.

This means the number of students who will attend WSHS from that neighborhood is at least triple the FCPS estimates.

Once that RV neighborhood is zoned for WSHS, that number will skyrocket. It will probably end up bringing in more students than FCPS is removing from Sangster.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People are locked in on the number of homes for whatever reason. Only seems to be Lewis parents.

There are WAY more than 20 high school students living in those 282 Lewis townhomes getting rezoned to WSHS.

It is probably closer to 50 high school students. Maybe more. Maybe less.

There are around 8-9 students per grade at the elementary level from that neighborhood getting rezoned to WSHS from Lewis, approximately 60 elementary students total.

FCPS is estimating 20 students, which is roughly 3 students per grade.

This means the number of students who will attend WSHS from that neighborhood is at least triple the FCPS estimates.

Once that RV neighborhood is zoned for WSHS, that number will skyrocket. It will probably end up bringing in more students than FCPS is removing from Sangster.

Here we go again. Broken record. Speculation. Wrong info. Please stop.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People are locked in on the number of homes for whatever reason. Only seems to be Lewis parents.

There are WAY more than 20 high school students living in those 282 Lewis townhomes getting rezoned to WSHS.

It is probably closer to 50 high school students. Maybe more. Maybe less.

There are around 8-9 students per grade at the elementary level from that neighborhood getting rezoned to WSHS from Lewis, approximately 60 elementary students total.

FCPS is estimating 20 students, which is roughly 3 students per grade.

This means the number of students who will attend WSHS from that neighborhood is at least triple the FCPS estimates.

Once that RV neighborhood is zoned for WSHS, that number will skyrocket. It will probably end up bringing in more students than FCPS is removing from Sangster.

This should say double not triple

FCPS is estimating 5 students per grade, not 3 students per grade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People are locked in on the number of homes for whatever reason. Only seems to be Lewis parents.

Wrong, also WSHS pare ts that would be told that overcrowding would ve addressed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People are locked in on the number of homes for whatever reason. Only seems to be Lewis parents.

There are WAY more than 20 high school students living in those 282 Lewis townhomes getting rezoned to WSHS.

It is probably closer to 50 high school students. Maybe more. Maybe less.

There are around 8-9 students per grade at the elementary level from that neighborhood getting rezoned to WSHS from Lewis, approximately 60 elementary students total.

FCPS is estimating 20 students, which is roughly 3 students per grade.

This means the number of students who will attend WSHS from that neighborhood is at least triple the FCPS estimates.

Once that RV neighborhood is zoned for WSHS, that number will skyrocket. It will probably end up bringing in more students than FCPS is removing from Sangster.

Here we go again. Broken record. Speculation. Wrong info. Please stop.

It is not speculating.

Other than the math correction of double from triple, this post is correct and you know it.