King Abdullah Academy Closing: FCPS Buy for HS?
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Anonymous
Westfield, Centreville, and Chantilly are all AP schools. The new school at KAA will also likely be an AP school as well. It won't be that simple to transfer out of Westfield. |
Anonymous
Kids transfer all the time for non AP/IB reasons. Look at the transfer data. |
Anonymous
No dog in this fight as we are not affected but one of the reasons kids flee the poorer high schools is the lack of academic classes and opportunities. A huge increase of farms kids at a school reduces the academic offerings. And, I believe the other high-FARMs rate high schools in FCPS are all much lower enrollment. A 2700 student school with 40+% farms rate is a LOT of needy kids. |
Anonymous
And, it is 60% non-needy kids. Enough to offer a robust curriculum for all. |
Anonymous
| Well, no. That's the problem, right? Unless FCPS decides to offer the exact same courses at every high school, a school with 40% disadvantaged kids is going to offer a whole lot fewer classes, clubs, etc. Why do you think those parents pay to charter a bus from Oak Hill to Langley every morning? For "Russian"? |
Anonymous
This wouldn’t be a huge increase in the FARMS rate at Westfield and the total number of FARMS students would decline. Similarly, Westfield’s total enrollment will likely decline well below 2700 with the feeders moving to KAA, even if parts of Centreville and Chantilly move over. You didn’t offer an alternative, so should we assume at this point you’re just trying out a new argument on why KAA should not open as a neighborhood school? |
Anonymous
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Seems like some smart people could figure out a way to open an amazing new building without making other schools and kids worse
off. |
Anonymous
There aren’t a lot of kids transferring to Langley from any single school. The really large cohort of transferring kids in western Fairfax is the group transferring from Herndon to South Lakes ostensibly for IB. The transfers from one AP school to another just aren’t that big. You can argue that an increase in the FARMS rate at Westfield might lead to more transfers to South Lakes, but at some point South Lakes stops taking pupil placements and the longer commute to other IB schools discourages people from pupil placing. It sounds like there’s either a Westfield parent who wants to keep Floris captive at Westfield (even though KAA sits in the Floris district) or there’s a poster who just wants to keep KAA from opening as a neighborhood school, for some undisclosed reason. In general, a 35-40% FARMS school with, say, 2200 or 2300 kids could still offer a lot of academic options to kids. |
Anonymous
Given how you’re implicitly defining “worse off,” that would probably require either alchemy or blatant gerrymandering. Others, however, would see benefits in having more schools in western Fairfax with smaller enrollments. |
Anonymous
] It won't. The kids leaving Westfield have a higher FARMS rate than those that will be reassigned there. Coates is 53% FARMS. McNair is 30%. Floris is 13%--but only part of Floris goes to Westfield--and it likely includes much of that 13%. But, the kids who go to Westfield from those three schools are geographically separated from the rest of the Westfield students. It does not make a community. This will be better for all. |
Anonymous
| Stone MS does not have the space to add all the students previously zoned to CHS and CVHS you are suggesting be moved to Westfield. Its unfortunate that one of the smallest middle school buildings feeds into one of the larger high schools. |
Anonymous
Stone is 15% under capacity and projected to be 19% under capacity in a few years. It can absorb some more kids. |
Anonymous
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I think they will take one or two ES from each nearby HS.
Floris and either McNair or Coates (maybe Floris & Coates and move McNair to South Lakes?) Fox Mill from South Lakes Oak Hill and maaaaaybe Lees Corner Crossfield and maaaaaaaybe Navy (does part of Navy go to Chantilly now or do they all go to Oakton?) |
Anonymous
| My question is will they rezone Franklin/Carson based on how they rezone the new high school? |
Anonymous
| There's a whole private minibus of transfer kids who get dropped off at Langley every morning. Its a little absurd. |