FCPS Skyview Boundary Revised Scenario 1 / 2

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Anonymous wrote:The Westfield moms on this thread are exhausting. No wonder no one wants to go there

SYBAU, Seema.

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We are zoned for Chantilly but I don't want Westfield to be trashed by this rezone. For one, its part of our community. For two, I don't want our school to become overcrowded with kids trying to avoid Westfield.

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Anonymous wrote:What student population percent of Chantilly HS is now under Skyview?

I don't think you can easily determine that because there are kids moving from Fairfax to Chantilly and kids moving from Chantilly to both Skyview and Westfield.

The net result is 636 fewer kids at Chantilly based on 2025-26 enrollment, but there are roughly 27 moving from Fairfax to Chantilly. So that means about 663 moving from Chantilly to Skyview and Westfield, but they haven't broken it down between those two schools.

Yes they have. If you click on the shaded portion being moved on the map, there is a sentence with an estimate in the far left section.

-333 Chantilly to Skyview
-309 Chantilly to Westfield
+41 Fairfax to Chantilly

Thanks for pointing this out. Either this sentence was added relatively recently or I've been overlooking it when looking at the tool.

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Anonymous wrote:What student population percent of Chantilly HS is now under Skyview?

I don't think you can easily determine that because there are kids moving from Fairfax to Chantilly and kids moving from Chantilly to both Skyview and Westfield.

The net result is 636 fewer kids at Chantilly based on 2025-26 enrollment, but there are roughly 27 moving from Fairfax to Chantilly. So that means about 663 moving from Chantilly to Skyview and Westfield, but they haven't broken it down between those two schools.

Yes they have. If you click on the shaded portion being moved on the map, there is a sentence with an estimate in the far left section.

-333 Chantilly to Skyview
-309 Chantilly to Westfield
+41 Fairfax to Chantilly

Thanks for pointing this out. Either this sentence was added relatively recently or I've been overlooking it when looking at the tool.

Its new.

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Yes, the numbers are new. Not sure why we weren't allowed to see them before.

They are moving 1062 kids from Westfield to Skyview, and moving back in 77 kids from the Centreville apartments and 309 students from Chantilly (the remainder of Cub Run and the Chantilly Mews slice of Brookfield).

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Anonymous wrote:The Westfield moms on this thread are exhausting. No wonder no one wants to go there

SYBAU, Seema.

+100.

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Anonymous wrote:I think Seema has a secret plan to zone all the new affordable housing they are trying to build in Centreville HS boundary over to the empty seats at Westfield.

But wouldn't they have to drive through several neighborhoods zone to Centerville in order to get to Westfield?

Also, would they also be zoned to Stone? Which is already going to be past capacity?

That area is zoned Liberty/Centreville HS. PP is saying there will be a ton of empty seats left open by Seema on purpose at Westfield. Centreville will be overcrowded if its not expanded (and expansion would be incredible waste of money at this point).

Centreville doesn't have much to worry about. It's shedding a poorer neighborhood, it will only be at 101% capacity after the changes taking the existing modular into account, and it may yet get expanded, even if not to a ridiculous 3000 seats. It's Westfield that's losing 676 kids and will decline over the coming years.

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Seema has set Centreville up for success even if they don't get the expansion. They will be too full to take any kids from the new low income buildings: oh dear, they will have to go to Westfield. Darn!

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Anonymous wrote:What student population percent of Chantilly HS is now under Skyview?

I don't think you can easily determine that because there are kids moving from Fairfax to Chantilly and kids moving from Chantilly to both Skyview and Westfield.

The net result is 636 fewer kids at Chantilly based on 2025-26 enrollment, but there are roughly 27 moving from Fairfax to Chantilly. So that means about 663 moving from Chantilly to Skyview and Westfield, but they haven't broken it down between those two schools.

Yes they have. If you click on the shaded portion being moved on the map, there is a sentence with an estimate in the far left section.

-333 Chantilly to Skyview
-309 Chantilly to Westfield
+41 Fairfax to Chantilly

Thanks for pointing this out. Either this sentence was added relatively recently or I've been overlooking it when looking at the tool.

Half of Brookfield is remaining at Chantilly. I don't see how that number is correct. I looked at the 3-6 grade numbers and get less than 400. No way 309 are going to Westfield from Brookfield. Even if you throw in the AAP who go elsewhere, that does not add up.

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It include the small portion of Cub Run ES that was previously zoned Rocky Run/Chantilly.

So remained of Cub Run + Chantilly Mews part of Brookfield = 309 kids total.

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They are only send at most a third of Brookfield to Stone/Westfield.

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Anonymous wrote:They are only send at most a third of Brookfield to Stone/Westfield.

That really sucks for those kids. Stone isn't even close by. I think they are closer to three other middle schools.

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Anonymous wrote:It include the small portion of Cub Run ES that was previously zoned Rocky Run/Chantilly.

So remained of Cub Run + Chantilly Mews part of Brookfield = 309 kids total.

This. If there are multiple areas moving from one school to another, they just show the total amount. So the total number of kids projected to move from Chantilly to Westfield is 309, and that's what is noted when you click on each of the shaded areas (Brookfield and Cub Run). It's not broken down separately.

If you want to check you can look at the two areas moving from Marshall to Madison - one area (Wolftrap) is bigger than the other area (Vienna) but in each case it just notes that 130 students are moving.

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Anonymous wrote:So the Westfield parents were reasonable, happy to take any kids zoned into their school, and followed the procedures they were supposed to: emailing the SB and commenting on the boundary tool. And their school is being treated like trash.

So the message to the rest of FCPS families for any future boundary changes is don't follow the given procedures, harass and hound Reid and the SB members, make sure a lobbyist and someone who works at Gatehouse lives in your neighborhood, and lie about being able to hear a school band. Whatever you do, don't be polite and reasonable.

I think Westfield is in a weird position because:

1) The schools moving out of Westfield are higher FARMs schools, so their departure doesn't really impact the AP program since most of the kids leaving probably are not in those classes
2) Floris makes sense in terms of location and reunifying a split feeder school
3) It is weird to be vocal about "We want these ES to be moved because we are losing a lot of kids and we need those seats backfilled"
4) Most people don't want to anger others by demanding that their kids are moved to your school, regardless of how proud you are of the school.

It is a perfect storm made worse by the fact that Dixit lives in a neighborhood that should move and she doesn't want to so there is no chance that is going to happen.

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Anonymous wrote:So the Westfield parents were reasonable, happy to take any kids zoned into their school, and followed the procedures they were supposed to: emailing the SB and commenting on the boundary tool. And their school is being treated like trash.

So the message to the rest of FCPS families for any future boundary changes is don't follow the given procedures, harass and hound Reid and the SB members, make sure a lobbyist and someone who works at Gatehouse lives in your neighborhood, and lie about being able to hear a school band. Whatever you do, don't be polite and reasonable.

I think Westfield is in a weird position because:

1) The schools moving out of Westfield are higher FARMs schools, so their departure doesn't really impact the AP program since most of the kids leaving probably are not in those classes
2) Floris makes sense in terms of location and reunifying a split feeder school
3) It is weird to be vocal about "We want these ES to be moved because we are losing a lot of kids and we need those seats backfilled"
4) Most people don't want to anger others by demanding that their kids are moved to your school, regardless of how proud you are of the school.

It is a perfect storm made worse by the fact that Dixit lives in a neighborhood that should move and she doesn't want to so there is no chance that is going to happen.

This isn't accurate. Its a mix of SES kids moving out.