An Open Discussion on Split Feeders.

[Anonymous]

What exactly is “Navy Island”?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What exactly is “Navy Island”?

An attendance island in the Franklin Farm area zoned to Navy ES. It's separated from the rest of the Navy attendance area by neighborhoods zoned to Crossfield ES. Goes to Franklin MS and Oakton HS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What exactly is “Navy Island”?

An attendance island in the Franklin Farm area zoned to Navy ES. It's separated from the rest of the Navy attendance area by neighborhoods zoned to Crossfield ES. Goes to Franklin MS and Oakton HS.

DP. Yes. Click on the boundary map, you will clearly see it. It is surrounded on all sides by Crossfield --and it is not just in the Franklin Farm area--it is part of Franklin Farm.
https://www.fcps.edu/schools-centers?keywords=navy

It has been this way for a very long time.

The story I heard was that this section lobbied to stay where they were when Crossfield was built. I was told that they all went to Oak Hill--others have said they were always at Navy. I think it is one of the older parts of Franklin Farm.
Nevertheless, before Crossfield was built there was no Fairfax County Parkway and most of Franklin Farm attended Oak Hill. Oak Hill is located in Chantilly Highlands. It was built before the CH neighborhood was built out. There was only a small part of Chantilly Highlands at that time. The portion of Franklin Farm west of the Parkway still attends Oak Hill/Franklin/Chantilly.

[Anonymous]

How many ES kids live in the part of Navy zoned for Chantilly?

[Anonymous]

Franklin Farm should have its own elementary school instead of making them go all the way to Crossfield or Navy - Lees corner, Oak Hill, and Fox Mill are all closer to my house than Crossfield and Navy, it's crazy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How many ES kids live in the part of Navy zoned for Chantilly?

70 or so

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How many ES kids live in the part of Navy zoned for Chantilly?

70 or so

Wow, I would have thought more!

Its denser than the island.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Franklin Farm should have its own elementary school instead of making them go all the way to Crossfield or Navy - Lees corner, Oak Hill, and Fox Mill are all closer to my house than Crossfield and Navy, it's crazy.

Didn’t you hear? They are building it right after they build the new Oakton MS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Franklin Farm should have its own elementary school instead of making them go all the way to Crossfield or Navy - Lees corner, Oak Hill, and Fox Mill are all closer to my house than Crossfield and Navy, it's crazy.

Is this a gag against the Oakton Person.

Yeah.

I’d build the “Silver Line ES” first, then the “Tyson’s ES”

I would build a new elementary school in the Justice pyramid next (using the same prototype proposed for Silver Line Elementary), and hold out for a Worldgate Elementary before tuning to your needs for a Franklin Farm Elementary.

Still Pond Pool and the tennis courts would be jeopardized for your need for a new elementary school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Franklin Farm should have its own elementary school instead of making them go all the way to Crossfield or Navy - Lees corner, Oak Hill, and Fox Mill are all closer to my house than Crossfield and Navy, it's crazy.

Is this a gag against the Oakton Person.

Yeah.

I’d build the “Silver Line ES” first, then the “Tyson’s ES”

I would build a new elementary school in the Justice pyramid next (using the same prototype proposed for Silver Line Elementary), and hold out for a Worldgate Elementary before tuning to your needs for a Franklin Farm Elementary.

Still Pond Pool and the tennis courts would be jeopardized for your need for a new elementary school.

I hate this gag.

Crossfield and Navy island are moving to Western!

Navy (sans Island) and Waples Mill can stay at Franklin, and Oakton, Mosaic, and Marshall Road can stay at Thoreau

[Anonymous]

Nothing was really fixed in the boundary review as major split feeders still exist.

The issue I see is we put schools in random locations that are no longer conducive to serving their communities, but still are where they are creating weird boundaries.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nothing was really fixed in the boundary review as major split feeders still exist.

The issue I see is we put schools in random locations that are no longer conducive to serving their communities, but still are where they are creating weird boundaries.

There is nothing that can fix that and I apologize for your dismay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Closing Hayfield is one of the dumbest suggestions ever posted to this forum, and that is saying a lot


I think the first step to eliminating split feeders, along with the first step to any high school and middle school rezoning, would be to add AAP to every middle school so that no students are allowed to attend AAP in a different pyramid than they are zoned for. The second step would be to eliminste IB except for one centrally located high school magnet program, and make all the high schools AP plud dual enrollment.

Then, eliminate all elementary school split feeders, and go back to pre 2010 ish (+/-) AAP qualification requirements for Level 4 services, back when elementary AAP programs were averaging 2 classes per grade at the centers, and before fcps lowered the AAP level 4 selection standards, doubling the size of AAP.

Make the level 4 testing cut off much higher, and make all the rest of the bright kids AAP level 3 at the base schools, instead of sending full classes of 3rd graders to the centers.

After these things are done, then eliminate middle school split feeders, starting with the transition from 8th to 9th.

I love this idea, but how will that happen if there’s not an exclusive Oakton Pyramid Middle School, Bren Mar Park isn’t moved back into the Annandale pyramid Wolftrap moves entirely to Thoreau/Madison, Town of Vienna part of Westbriar moves to Thoreau also, Stenwood feeding part of Thoreau moves exclusively to Madison, Westgate and Lemon Road move exclusively to Marshall, and Mason Crest takes 6th grade in keeping its Falls Church Feeding part, but dropping its Justice feeding part to Beech Tree or Belvedere.

Elementary schools hinge on this too.

Oh mama this sounds expensive!