FCPS Boundary Review - New Maps

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Anonymous wrote:Looks like FCPS plan to move centers around now:

“FCPS provides no guarantee that any residential address will continually be served by the same elementary, middle, and/or high school(s) or AAP center(s)” (for 2026-2027 school year). This is the new disclaimer on the FCPS Boundary Locator System Tool. From the rest of the disclaimer, it may be inferred that AAP centers are possibly going to be realigned/moved.”

Or perhaps greatly reduced in number. After all they smack of inequity.

I don’t want to cape for FCPS and I’m not one of the boundary change defenders. But if they can put AAP at all the middle schools - which they absolutely need to do - there’s no need for MS AAP.

We all know FCPS is facing budget cuts. My own ES had to choose between the AAP resource teacher and the STEAM teacher this year and chose the AAP teacher. From a purely budget standpoint in terms of reducing transportation costs, I can see them taking a hard look at ES AAP centers. Especially with LLIV being at most schools now. They’d have to keep a few open for the places that still don’t have LLIV or maybe where very few students qualify. Like the Sangster center would have to stay because Orange Hunt and Hunt Valley have no LLIV and so those students need to be bussed to Sangster.

Now that all being said … at one of the community meetings the subject of AAP centers was raised and Mateo Dunne said there were some gifted advocacy groups who continually strongly lobbied for keeping them. So greatly reducing the number of centers was not on the table. But that was in 2024 pre-election and pre cuts to federal spending. And eliminating or reducing AAP centers would also have effects on the boundaries if it’s known that whatever high SES ES sends 15+ kids to the center who would then end up back at the base school making it more crowded. Or the other situation - eliminating a big center where the enrollment of 1st and 2nd is around 80 in each grade, but the enrollment of 3-6 is 125+ (Haycock) and that school would end up under enrolled.

They should have worked this out before they started releasing boundary maps. But they didn’t so what’s the point of your post?

They didn’t work out anything before releasing boundary maps LOL. Coulda should woulda. Now they’re trying to fold in a bunch of other stuff like changing school start times.

What a bunch of imbeciles.

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The Centreville situation is a total mess, like so much of FCPS these days.

They've done the work associated with the planning and design of an expansion of CVHS to 3000.

However, the next step is permitting, and FCPS has been at an impasse with the county for over a year. https://www.ffxnow.com/2025/04/24/fcps-given-more-time-to-submit-plans-for-centreville-high-school-expansion/

So no progress is apparently being made currently.

If they do decide to scale back the massive Centreville renovation due to the KAA purchase, they'll have to go back and reconsider the only work that's actually been done - the planning/design of the renovation.

Which in turn will further delay when they file the application to obtain the required permits.

Meanwhile they want approval this fall to float more school bonds and no one really has been told how that money would be spent.