Boundary Review Meetings

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Anonymous wrote:I don't know the western part of the county as well as the southeastern, but when South County opened the ensuing boundary changes left Lee (Lewis) with a high-poverty population. Is there a risk that this could happen to a school like Westfield?

I moved here right after South County opened, and didn’t have kids in FCPS yet. But I always thought SC took almost all of its students from Hayfield, which was bursting at the seams at the time? I can’t imagine commuting to Lewis from Lorton. What elementary(ies?) were zoned to Lee at the time that ended up at SC, or were these secondary moves to put kids into Hayfield when they lost students to SC?

Newington Forest previously split between Lee and Hayfield. When South County opened all of Newington Forest went to South County. In the same boundary study, Hunt Valley, which had split between West Springfield and Lee, was all sent to West Springfield.

I knew that about the Hunt Valley split feeder but didn’t realize some of Newington Forest was at Lee as well. That’s a brutal drive.

Gambrill to the Parkway, not really that brutal. But yes, SC is the right school for those neighborhoods.

Only if you are talking about 2AM

It is a crazy ling commute for a school bus, especially when you factor in 30 minutes of stops to pick up kids.

Parts of the Saratoga area are just as far as Gambrill and Pohick.

Yes, and Saratoga should have been moved to SoCo when it opened, but the Saratoga families fought to stay at Lee/now Lewis.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't know the western part of the county as well as the southeastern, but when South County opened the ensuing boundary changes left Lee (Lewis) with a high-poverty population. Is there a risk that this could happen to a school like Westfield?

I moved here right after South County opened, and didn’t have kids in FCPS yet. But I always thought SC took almost all of its students from Hayfield, which was bursting at the seams at the time? I can’t imagine commuting to Lewis from Lorton. What elementary(ies?) were zoned to Lee at the time that ended up at SC, or were these secondary moves to put kids into Hayfield when they lost students to SC?

Newington Forest previously split between Lee and Hayfield. When South County opened all of Newington Forest went to South County. In the same boundary study, Hunt Valley, which had split between West Springfield and Lee, was all sent to West Springfield.

I knew that about the Hunt Valley split feeder but didn’t realize some of Newington Forest was at Lee as well. That’s a brutal drive.

Gambrill to the Parkway, not really that brutal. But yes, SC is the right school for those neighborhoods.

Only if you are talking about 2AM

It is a crazy ling commute for a school bus, especially when you factor in 30 minutes of stops to pick up kids.

Parts of the Saratoga area are just as far as Gambrill and Pohick.

Yes, and Saratoga should have been moved to SoCo when it opened, but the Saratoga families fought to stay at Lee/now Lewis.

That was over 20 years ago. Things have changed and if the board was truly focused on transportation they should have revisited this. Both SoCo and WS are closer in mileage and neither requires highway transport. Lewis is the furthest away and requires the bus to get on 95.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't know the western part of the county as well as the southeastern, but when South County opened the ensuing boundary changes left Lee (Lewis) with a high-poverty population. Is there a risk that this could happen to a school like Westfield?

I moved here right after South County opened, and didn’t have kids in FCPS yet. But I always thought SC took almost all of its students from Hayfield, which was bursting at the seams at the time? I can’t imagine commuting to Lewis from Lorton. What elementary(ies?) were zoned to Lee at the time that ended up at SC, or were these secondary moves to put kids into Hayfield when they lost students to SC?

Newington Forest previously split between Lee and Hayfield. When South County opened all of Newington Forest went to South County. In the same boundary study, Hunt Valley, which had split between West Springfield and Lee, was all sent to West Springfield.

I knew that about the Hunt Valley split feeder but didn’t realize some of Newington Forest was at Lee as well. That’s a brutal drive.

Gambrill to the Parkway, not really that brutal. But yes, SC is the right school for those neighborhoods.

Only if you are talking about 2AM

It is a crazy ling commute for a school bus, especially when you factor in 30 minutes of stops to pick up kids.

Parts of the Saratoga area are just as far as Gambrill and Pohick.

Yes, and Saratoga should have been moved to SoCo when it opened, but the Saratoga families fought to stay at Lee/now Lewis.

That was over 20 years ago. Things have changed and if the board was truly focused on transportation they should have revisited this. Both SoCo and WS are closer in mileage and neither requires highway transport. Lewis is the furthest away and requires the bus to get on 95.

Saratoga should ho to SoCo instead of Lewis.

But the reps focus and priority is on getting Rolling Valley to WSHS, including moving other neighborhoods out to do this. Saratoga is not a priority, nor is Lewis. RV is the priority right now.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't know the western part of the county as well as the southeastern, but when South County opened the ensuing boundary changes left Lee (Lewis) with a high-poverty population. Is there a risk that this could happen to a school like Westfield?

Yeah, Lewis is definitely not a school you want your child to attend at present. Poor quality education and dangerous as well.

This is false information. Lewis provides an excellent education, and I sincerely don't know what you're referring to with it being dangerous.

The big challenge with Lewis is that it's so small, so it's hard to support extracurricular activities.

DP, only for activists in Fairfax County is a 1,500+ school deemed “so small”. Over under on the percentage of public high schools in the country less than 1,500 students? I’d guess 80 or 90%.

Well, add to that that a large portion of those kids are not engaged in the school. Poor attendance, lack of interest in school spirit, etc. Not sure if that's the fault of the admin or the parents at home, but I think it feels even smaller than it is because only about half the school is fully participating in it at a typical high school level.

So you think we should move a bunch of families to Lewis because they don’t have enough school spirit? Seems like a weak justification to me.

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do we think KAA maps will post before open house? or even after open house??

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Have those maps been drawn yet?

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Copy pasting from the other thread: "Soooo Dr. Reid said it on the community meetings they intended to share "drafty draft" maps for KAA before the open house on Saturday, guessing similar to the release of the Scenario 4 maps that its not happening as promised."

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I heard her say at the open house they will share drafty drafts.

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She said there will be 4 different maps presented at the Open House. She also pretty definitively said that KAA Maps would be part of the Boundary review maps that the SB would approve in January.

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Who is going to the open house ? Should we all attend ?

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4 separate maps, what the actual ???

How do they have a legion of staffers at Gatehouse and they can't do a dang thing.

Anonymous posters on this site could come to a 90% consensus on fair boundaries in about 20 minutes.

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Anonymous wrote:4 separate maps, what the actual ???

How do they have a legion of staffers at Gatehouse and they can't do a dang thing.

Anonymous posters on this site could come to a 90% consensus on fair boundaries in about 20 minutes.

On 10/23/25 Reid said they came out with about 12 maps and are presenting 4. Should have been 1 for all Oct meetings and let people give input. Reid's known about it for months so 1 map should have come out with scenario 4 which also should have included AAP with no transfers at Carson, Franklin, Rocky Run, Liberty, Stone, Herndon. FCPS submitted an occupancy permit to the county for about 2415 sq ft of office space at the site- IMHO lots of time wasted on programming BS instead of segueing right into AP , traditional boundary, comprehensive HS. People like Meren have focus on keeping the 60 kid preschool space with a separate entrance...no clue how many HS classrooms that could be. Estimate 6? some schools compute cap by 30/class making that 180.

Also they know the county is not permitting the Centreville expansion to 3000 from program capacity 1968+ 156 modular=2124. That grand plan was to expand design capacity from 1953 to 3000. 381 million for the project.

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Why on earth do we need a huge preschool space at a high school?

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Anonymous wrote:She said there will be 4 different maps presented at the Open House. She also pretty definitively said that KAA Maps would be part of the Boundary review maps that the SB would approve in January.

That’s interesting because with the county-wide study some pyramids essentially saw a single map for Scenarios 1-3 and perhaps revisions in Scenario 4. So basically two maps at most.

But for KAA they’ll apparently share multiple options - another example of how this county-wide study treats some pyramids like crap while all this money and attention gets focused on one part of the county.

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Anonymous wrote:Why on earth do we need a huge preschool space at a high school?

So Merin can claim there just isn’t space to redistrict kids from South Lakes.