I hope the people complaining about the new high school see how long it takes to build just an elementary school. This project was launched in 2020 and it won't be ready until 2035?? Imagine how long a high school would take!! |
No you were right the first time around. What a waste of money. They need to scrap this plan. |
Says the lady who keeps typing grumble grumble. |
Sure, my kid's about to be rezoned to a high school that doesn't exist yet. |
It sounds like the FCHS renovation is years delayed as well. One of the parents noted it was supposed to be done by now, and facilities were wishy washy on giving an end date. |
I would agree with that. Even Lewis is hundreds of students larger than all the local private high schools. |
That’s a non sequitur. There is no urgency around Dunn Loring because all the surrounding elementary schools are under capacity. It has very little to do with the time needed to build a school. If and when it gets built they’ll have the same debates over what type of school it should be, because if it’s a typical neighborhood ES it’s going to gut the enrollments at Freedom Hill and Stenwood. |
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FCPS has destroyed all the goodwill they had in our neck of the woods. Really just destroyed our faith in the schools with the unnecessary boundary review.
It’s an unforced error. |
It is a good thing then that the new high school is already built. WSHS got a full renovation and remodel, down to the concrete cinder blocks and updating all wiring, plumbing and ductwork. New sports facilities, new parking lots, new auditorium including replacing the stage, all new furniture. A 3rd floor of science labs was added. Mold and other remediation was performed. It took around 3.5 years and finished almost a year early and under budget, with a full enrollment of around 2500 students attending classes for the entire construction. Renovating the new high school will be a breeze in comparison. The new high school is in great condition and needs only minor renovations, all of which can be completed with students attending. There is no hazardous remediation required. It already has most of the necessary sports fields for a high school, and 2 beautiful, modern auditoriums. The new high school renovations should go quickly, maybe 1 year, based on the most recent major high school renovation of WSHS. |
You need to check the enrollments of Jefferson and Fort Hunt when they closed. It was probably around 1200 kids each. And they toyed with the idea a few years later of closing Marshall when it was around 1100 but decided against it. FCPS is not going to operate a 500-student high school. |
Context matters though. What was the enrollment at neighboring schools when these schools were closed? High schools in other parts of the country can operate with a small student body just fine, but it makes sense for a huge school district to operate with a somewhat even distribution of school sizes. That way they can offer the similar programming. That’s why when you see two schools sitting next to each other with 3000 students at one and 1500 at the other, you wonder if the plan is to close or redistribute. Fairfax has been leaning toward 2500-3000 student enrollments. |
| So if they put the TOV back to Madison, what would get shifted back? The Old Courthouse/Clark's Crossing neighborhoods that were originally at Marshall? |
I’m guessing Marshall boundaries won’t change at all except for the little Vienna ES cutout. All split feeders would be retained (except for Vienna ES) and they’d pick up an additional split feeder in Shrevewood. The only change I see going through is Kilmer sending all its Madison students to Thoreau, which at least will close that split feeder. I hope they do something about the Stenwood students who get sent to Thoreau and then Marshall, but no one seems to care about fixing the three way Thoreau split for some reason. |
They wrote 1,500 enrollment, not 500 enrollment |
In what scenario is the TOV not at Madison? |