FCPS Skyview Boundary Revised Scenario 1 / 2
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Anonymous
I can't believe how stupid these people running FCPS are. How do you change all the boundaries first without considering AAP numbers and then have this parallel process where you are phasing out AAP and redistributing all the kids back to different schools. |
Anonymous
| Well, if they go with their current final scenario and Stone is at 99% full (861 kids), it certainly can't take 89 more students. Its a small, old unrenovated building. |
Anonymous
That’s its program capacity. Believe the building capacity is 1050 or something close to it |
Anonymous
Building capacity is not really relevant. Because there are programs that take up more space in a building. Program capacity is the number FCPS is using for. the boundary study for that reason. |
Anonymous
+1. You can't get rid of all your special education classrooms, for instance, and building capacity assumes no special ed classes. |
Anonymous
It is still surrounded by other middle schools not even close to capacity. RRMS will be at 84% and Liberty will be at 77%. It makes no sense, especially considering they have it as Westfield's only feeder at the moment. |
Anonymous
RRMS will be at 84% WITH the Stone AAP kids. Once they are moved back to Stone, they will have 89 fewer kids, so they wil be down in the 70s or less for percentiles. |
Anonymous
100% |
Anonymous
If the boundary changes adopted earlier this year and currently proposed relating to Skyview had been fully phased in, this is what the 2025-26 enrollments would look like: Lake Braddock 2922 West Springfield 2848 Oakton 2721 West Potomac 2558 Robinson 2549 Woodson 2471 Langley 2416 Fairfax 2344 Chantilly 2305 Madison 2227 Edison 2197 Justice 2147 Hayfield 2139 TJHSST 2125 McLean 2123 Centreville 2119 Westfield 2083 Herndon 2061 Marshall 2045 South County 2042 Falls Church 2035 South Lakes 2033 Annandale 2002 Mount Vernon 1788 Skyview 1780 Lewis 1537 |
Anonymous
By definition, if they are adding another high school in western Fairfax, they are at least implicitly concluding that they'd like to have more, smaller schools rather than fewer, bigger schools in terms of enrollment. You cannot open Skyview as a neighborhood school and not reduce the enrollments of other schools. I don't think they should go out of their way and only move poorer areas into Westfield to backfill it, but Westfield has no right to have only "affluent" neighborhoods moved into the school. The proposed changes do not leave Chantilly at or over capacity, but instead at 87% capacity. Centreville is left at 101% capacity, but there is a plan to renovate and expand the school that pre-dates the decision to open Skyview. The planned expansion should be scaled back, but it's not obvious that the best thing is to reduce Centreville to 1900 kids so that Westfield can have 2300. As things now stand, the two schools would be fairly close in terms of enrollment. Putting aside the demographics of those proposed to move in and out of Westfield, it would still have a reasonable enrollment. If you think it's not a sufficient enrollment to support academics there, that's one thing, but that would be the case whether Westfield's capacity were 2200 students or 2800 students. When a building's capacity utilization goes down, the amount of square footage per student goes up, which some would view as a positive. Having said that, if I were in charge of things, I wouldn't be so shy when it comes to adjusting the boundaries of the five schools within the scope of the Skyview study. I'd move more kids so that Oakton and Chantilly weren't left with significantly higher enrollments than South Lakes, Westfield, and Centreville. But they have concluded that it's in their political interests to say they moved the fewest kids necessary under the circumstances, so here we are. |
Anonymous
| The woman running against Dixit is answering questions on her social media page. |
Anonymous
What is she saying about boundaries? I don't do Facebook. |
Anonymous
Very little. She's the Liberty MS PTA President. She won't say anything that would antagonize Centreville HS families who don't want to get moved to Westfield. Her main priority is getting FCPS to start renovating Centreville. She wants FCPS to go ahead and expand Centreville to 3000 seats. The school had an enrollment under 2150 this year. She'd be Seema Dixit 2.0 but won't be on the hook for gutting Westfield, which she'd blame on Dixit. |
Anonymous
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Whats her name?
Who doesnt want a beautiful new spacious high school built for 3000 for only 2000 students? Sounds delightful, and a huge waste of taxpayer money with 800+ empty seats right next door. |
Anonymous
FCPS is always playing with the program capacity numbers - it is 'flexible'. It has as much to do with teacher numbers as space. That is why the only hard number is the building capacity number. |