FCPS Skyview Boundary Revised Scenario 1 / 2

[Anonymous]

i was wrong. herndon starts implementing for 7th AAP in 2028-2029. franklin is group 4. in 2029-2030

https://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/files/DSKREP6DA992/$file/2026.04.07%20MS%20AAP%20Center%20Expansion%20Worksession.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:i was wrong. herndon starts implementing for 7th AAP in 2028-2029. franklin is group 4. in 2029-2030

https://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/files/DSKREP6DA992/$file/2026.04.07%20MS%20AAP%20Center%20Expansion%20Worksession.pdf

And Franklin will get a renovation in 2030 if I remember correctly.

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Anonymous wrote:All the other proposed maps in the other versions had Westfield with a more reasonable population-at least 23-400 students by pulling from Lees Corner, or Bull Run, or the Walney area, etc. This "final" map is the only one that dipped all the way down to @2000. I'm sure the Westfield people were taken aback by that.

Where were all the people thinking an enrollment of 2300 or 2400 kids is "reasonable" when FCPS was refusing to invest in other schools and downsizing them? If Westfield ends up with 2150 kids or so, it will still have an enrollment larger than nine other high schools, including Skyview.

The projection has it at only 2083, which is fewer than 2150, with the only MC neighborhood being rezoned lobbying FCPS hard to get out. There's no chance they add more kids in but based on the shenanigans so far, there's a likely chance they move kids back to Chantilly, which would leave them with 1900 or fewer.

You're right that the projection has Westfield at 2083, not 2150. That's still higher than nine other high schools based on all the boundary adjustments adopted and proposed: Herndon, Marshall, South County, Falls Church, Annandale, South Lakes, Mount Vernon, Skyview, and Lewis.

Interesting that this list of smallest schools also includes all the academic have-not schools people are desperate to avoid in FCPS and that FCPS ignores and refuses to improve. They are deliberately moving Westfield from a regular middle of the pack school down to the bottom tier of Avoid at All Cost schools.

If the only thing keeping Westfield in the middle of the pack was all those kids north of 50, then this was inevitable.

Not sure what your point is? Moving over a thousand kids out of any school with balanced demographics but only moving back in 200 or so mostly low income kids destabilizes any school community. Those areas have been zoned to Westfield for at least 25 years.

The current proposal is to move 386 kids into Westfield - 309 from Chantilly and 77 from Centreville. Not "200 or so."

It's still a sizable loss of students for Westfield, but Westfield would have more kids than nine other high schools in the county, including Skyview.

10th smallest school by population with the largest HS building capacity in the county. Make it make sense…. There is no reason Westfield doesn’t have a top 5 population. It’s because the county caved to the wealthy and connected at Chantilly and Centreville. Case closed

Westfield does not have the largest HS building capacity in FCPS. Lake Braddock and West Potomac both have more 9-12 capacity.

Westfield is still expected to have more kids than nine other high schools, including Skyview, once these changes are fully implemented.

It’s likely Westfield will stop winning state championships with a smaller student enrollment but FCPS implicitly decided smaller schools were better when it decided to buy KAA.

No they didn’t. They decided they wanted another HS in an area that didn’t have one and then they were chicken shits and backed down from doing the right thing which was to move affluent and connected neighborhoods to Westfield. It is absurd that you think it’s OK for the county to waste capacity resources and still leave Chantilly in Centerville at or over capacity. There is no excuse for the cowardly behavior. I’d give them credit if they came out and said we were too weak to make it happen.

[Anonymous]

100% correct. If they wanted schools at 2000 why aren’t they moving out more students from Chantilly when it’s still at 2400?? They stopped because they found no more low hanging fruit that wouldn’t fight back. I don’t blame the communities for trying to stay, but the county should’ve never let that happen. It’s a terrible look for them and a stain on their stated quest of equity. Vote every one of them out and don’t let them forget that this happened.

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Anonymous wrote:100% correct. If they wanted schools at 2000 why aren’t they moving out more students from Chantilly when it’s still at 2400?? They stopped because they found no more low hanging fruit that wouldn’t fight back. I don’t blame the communities for trying to stay, but the county should’ve never let that happen. It’s a terrible look for them and a stain on their stated quest of equity. Vote every one of them out and don’t let them forget that this happened.

Let alone leaving Oakton at over 2700!

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Anonymous wrote:All the other proposed maps in the other versions had Westfield with a more reasonable population-at least 23-400 students by pulling from Lees Corner, or Bull Run, or the Walney area, etc. This "final" map is the only one that dipped all the way down to @2000. I'm sure the Westfield people were taken aback by that.

Where were all the people thinking an enrollment of 2300 or 2400 kids is "reasonable" when FCPS was refusing to invest in other schools and downsizing them? If Westfield ends up with 2150 kids or so, it will still have an enrollment larger than nine other high schools, including Skyview.

The projection has it at only 2083, which is fewer than 2150, with the only MC neighborhood being rezoned lobbying FCPS hard to get out. There's no chance they add more kids in but based on the shenanigans so far, there's a likely chance they move kids back to Chantilly, which would leave them with 1900 or fewer.

You're right that the projection has Westfield at 2083, not 2150. That's still higher than nine other high schools based on all the boundary adjustments adopted and proposed: Herndon, Marshall, South County, Falls Church, Annandale, South Lakes, Mount Vernon, Skyview, and Lewis.

Interesting that this list of smallest schools also includes all the academic have-not schools people are desperate to avoid in FCPS and that FCPS ignores and refuses to improve. They are deliberately moving Westfield from a regular middle of the pack school down to the bottom tier of Avoid at All Cost schools.

If the only thing keeping Westfield in the middle of the pack was all those kids north of 50, then this was inevitable.

Not sure what your point is? Moving over a thousand kids out of any school with balanced demographics but only moving back in 200 or so mostly low income kids destabilizes any school community. Those areas have been zoned to Westfield for at least 25 years.

The current proposal is to move 386 kids into Westfield - 309 from Chantilly and 77 from Centreville. Not "200 or so."

It's still a sizable loss of students for Westfield, but Westfield would have more kids than nine other high schools in the county, including Skyview.

10th smallest school by population with the largest HS building capacity in the county. Make it make sense…. There is no reason Westfield doesn’t have a top 5 population. It’s because the county caved to the wealthy and connected at Chantilly and Centreville. Case closed

Westfield does not have the largest HS building capacity in FCPS. Lake Braddock and West Potomac both have more 9-12 capacity.

Westfield is still expected to have more kids than nine other high schools, including Skyview, once these changes are fully implemented.

It’s likely Westfield will stop winning state championships with a smaller student enrollment but FCPS implicitly decided smaller schools were better when it decided to buy KAA.

As someone else pointed out, most of the "9 other schools" Westfield *may* have more students than (hard to say how the numebrs at Westfield will shake out once the zoned MC kids start leaving) are schools FCPS has written off as academic wastelands and refuses to invest in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:i was wrong. herndon starts implementing for 7th AAP in 2028-2029. franklin is group 4. in 2029-2030

https://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/files/DSKREP6DA992/$file/2026.04.07%20MS%20AAP%20Center%20Expansion%20Worksession.pdf

When are they putting AAP in at Stone? The current proposal leaves Stone at 99% full. There is no room to add AAP kids back in.

[Anonymous]

I think a school that is built for 1800 students and has always had around 1800 students is a very different scenario then taking a school that was built for 2800, currently has almost 2800 and removing 1000 kids (and associated staff/teachers) within a year or two.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:i was wrong. herndon starts implementing for 7th AAP in 2028-2029. franklin is group 4. in 2029-2030

https://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/files/DSKREP6DA992/$file/2026.04.07%20MS%20AAP%20Center%20Expansion%20Worksession.pdf

When are they putting AAP in at Stone? The current proposal leaves Stone at 99% full. There is no room to add AAP kids back in.

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The docs say they are estimating around 90 kids will be added to Stone for AAP. Um, where? The school will be completely full to the brim under the current scenario?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think a school that is built for 1800 students and has always had around 1800 students is a very different scenario then taking a school that was built for 2800, currently has almost 2800 and removing 1000 kids (and associated staff/teachers) within a year or two.

You are correct. The person who keeps posting over and over that Westfield is fine because it will still have a few more students than Lewis clearly lives in an area that should be moved and is desperately trying to pretend like this plan is acceptable or reasonable.

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Where's the list of FCPS HS sorted by number of students? I'd like to see it.

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Anonymous wrote:i was wrong. herndon starts implementing for 7th AAP in 2028-2029. franklin is group 4. in 2029-2030

https://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/files/DSKREP6DA992/$file/2026.04.07%20MS%20AAP%20Center%20Expansion%20Worksession.pdf

When are they putting AAP in at Stone? The current proposal leaves Stone at 99% full. There is no room to add AAP kids back in.

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The docs say they are estimating around 90 kids will be added to Stone for AAP. Um, where? The school will be completely full to the brim under the current scenario?

And they will all be moved from Rocky Run, which will only be 84% capacity under these proposals *with* the Stone AAP kids.

[Anonymous]

Sometimes I think the dumbest comments on here must be from Reid's staff or SB staff, trying to workshop their arguments.

Are they really trying to go with "Westfield will be fine, just like Lewis is fine?"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sometimes I think the dumbest comments on here must be from Reid's staff or SB staff, trying to workshop their arguments.

Are they really trying to go with "Westfield will be fine, just like Lewis is fine?"

Its crazy. Westfield is only at 2083 kids with their "final" proposal, and that's before the people they are trying to move somehow pay a bribe and get moved back which has been the pattern this whole proce. They could end up with only 1800 kids zoned, and much fewer showing up to actually attend. At a school for 2800 kids! right next to schools that are overcrowded!

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Anonymous wrote:Sometimes I think the dumbest comments on here must be from Reid's staff or SB staff, trying to workshop their arguments.

Are they really trying to go with "Westfield will be fine, just like Lewis is fine?"

According to FCPS, Lewis IS fine. That's why they don't need to move kids out of hugely overcrowed WSHS next door to Lewis. Because Lewis is just fine and doing great. Who needs classes, clubs, or sports teams?