Western High School Boundary Map options (A/B/C/D)

[Anonymous]

Why is there an option to keep the Navy enclave going to Oakton when everyone else around them woukd go to the new school? I thought the Navy enclave was getting redistributed to Oak Hill anyway, so why would they continue to go to Oakton HS? Makes no sense.

[Anonymous]

We have kids at Crossfield. They play CYA sports and go to Carson with current Chantilly and Westfield kids. They should be able to stay with their friends in that community instead of being literally the only kids at Carson that go to Oakton. I am very Pro-Western High School. The only people that want to stay in Oakton have older kids. Most of them don't even have kids at Crossfield.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:As a Fox Mill parent, who wrote the school board, I think B is most likely. I really hope Fox Mill is moved, if not, I they need to drop IB at SLHS.

What makes you think so? Something they said in a reply to you, or just speculating?

I didn't get a reply but I know a good number of parents who are writing in favor of moving and I think Crossfield has a lot of parents writing to stay at Oakton. As such, it makes it a bit safer for the board to move the people who want to board and are close by.

The current projections essentially turn Carson into a feeder for the Western School. If they don't move Fox Mill, Carson remains a split feeder or they have to move Fox Mill to Hughes, and no one I know in Fox Mill wants to move to Hughes. I have seen some conversation about shifting Oak Hill to Carson and Crossfield to Franklin to deal with the MS split feeder issue.

Moving Fox Mill means less risk to the school board, moving Crossfield upsets a lot of folks. And Fox Mill is a part of the Carson community so moving Fox Mill is not a stretch.

I never want to hear another complaint about long bus rides if Crossfield stays at Oakton.

A LOT of us want to move to Western. It's just a vocal minority with older kids that want to stay at Oakton.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:As a Fox Mill parent, who wrote the school board, I think B is most likely. I really hope Fox Mill is moved, if not, I they need to drop IB at SLHS.

What makes you think so? Something they said in a reply to you, or just speculating?

I didn't get a reply but I know a good number of parents who are writing in favor of moving and I think Crossfield has a lot of parents writing to stay at Oakton. As such, it makes it a bit safer for the board to move the people who want to board and are close by.

The current projections essentially turn Carson into a feeder for the Western School. If they don't move Fox Mill, Carson remains a split feeder or they have to move Fox Mill to Hughes, and no one I know in Fox Mill wants to move to Hughes. I have seen some conversation about shifting Oak Hill to Carson and Crossfield to Franklin to deal with the MS split feeder issue.

Moving Fox Mill means less risk to the school board, moving Crossfield upsets a lot of folks. And Fox Mill is a part of the Carson community so moving Fox Mill is not a stretch.

Crossfield is part of the Carson community too. It hurts my heart that my kid has made friends at Carson that she's going to lose when she goes to Oakton. This is an opportunity for her to stay with them. They all play sports together. No one at Oakton plays CYA sports. It will be a whole new group of people.

[Anonymous]

A, C, or D.

[Anonymous]

As a Floris parent, we would love B. It doesn’t make sense to keep Floris split - not sure why they keep grouping a portion of Floris with Fox Mill.

[Anonymous]

Agree, I haven't met a Floris parent yet that doesn't want the community kept together. Option B, or Option A + the SLHS Floris neighborhoods.

[Anonymous]

Several people have suggested this. To be clear, here is one more +.

Option A--plus all of Floris makes the most sense. It eliminates split feeder at Floris and makes the most sense geographically. It gets Franklin Farm off the bus to Oakton.

Options C and D are awful No way should they have Discovery Square staying at Westfield:
1. It is one of the two closest neighborhoods to the Western High School
2. It would be the only neighborhood north of 50 going to Westfield--which isolates the students from the rest of their school community.

Option B will take way too many kids out of South Lakes.

[Anonymous]

Option "A+Floris" should alleviate the worst of the western Oakton bus issue, and allows Meren to not lose all of the SLHS kids since she can keep Fox Mill.

Would this split Crossfield ES in a big way, or would the feeder % be somewhat balanced across Oakton and Western HS?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Option "A+Floris" should alleviate the worst of the western Oakton bus issue, and allows Meren to not lose all of the SLHS kids since she can keep Fox Mill.

Would this split Crossfield ES in a big way, or would the feeder % be somewhat balanced across Oakton and Western HS?

I think it keeps Crossfield together except for Fox Mill Woods--which is already separate. So, split between WesternHS and South Lakes.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Regardless of which scenario they choose, they need to move the Fox Mill Woods neighborhood from Crossfield into Hunters Woods/Hughes/South Lakes. They fixed it in Scenario 4 and now are showing them go wherever Crossfield goes in these options.

In the general boundary review there is an option to move Fox Mill Woods into Crossfield/Carson/Oakton, and from what I saw from this forum some Fox Mill Wood parents weren't happy.
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/7005/1259707.page

That's why I said they should be Hunters Woods/Hughes/South Lakes. That area is Reston and identifies with the Reston community and rec / travel sports. It makes much more sense for them to go to Hunters Woods so they will all stay with their friends through middle and high school rather than the weird split between pyramids.

Then they should move that subdivision out of Crossfield and into Hunter Woods, instead of keeping them at Crossfield and going to Oakton or Western HS. Not sure if Hunter Woods is too full or them.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Regardless of which scenario they choose, they need to move the Fox Mill Woods neighborhood from Crossfield into Hunters Woods/Hughes/South Lakes. They fixed it in Scenario 4 and now are showing them go wherever Crossfield goes in these options.

In the general boundary review there is an option to move Fox Mill Woods into Crossfield/Carson/Oakton, and from what I saw from this forum some Fox Mill Wood parents weren't happy.
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/7005/1259707.page

That's why I said they should be Hunters Woods/Hughes/South Lakes. That area is Reston and identifies with the Reston community and rec / travel sports. It makes much more sense for them to go to Hunters Woods so they will all stay with their friends through middle and high school rather than the weird split between pyramids.

Then they should move that subdivision out of Crossfield and into Hunter Woods, instead of keeping them at Crossfield and going to Oakton or Western HS. Not sure if Hunter Woods is too full or them.

I think they are walkers to Crossfield?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Regardless of which scenario they choose, they need to move the Fox Mill Woods neighborhood from Crossfield into Hunters Woods/Hughes/South Lakes. They fixed it in Scenario 4 and now are showing them go wherever Crossfield goes in these options.

In the general boundary review there is an option to move Fox Mill Woods into Crossfield/Carson/Oakton, and from what I saw from this forum some Fox Mill Wood parents weren't happy.
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/7005/1259707.page

That's why I said they should be Hunters Woods/Hughes/South Lakes. That area is Reston and identifies with the Reston community and rec / travel sports. It makes much more sense for them to go to Hunters Woods so they will all stay with their friends through middle and high school rather than the weird split between pyramids.

Then they should move that subdivision out of Crossfield and into Hunter Woods, instead of keeping them at Crossfield and going to Oakton or Western HS. Not sure if Hunter Woods is too full or them.

It’s because Crossfield physically sits in that small area. If the school was on the other side of Fox Mill Rd, the neighborhood would probably have moved already.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Several people have suggested this. To be clear, here is one more +.

Option A--plus all of Floris makes the most sense. It eliminates split feeder at Floris and makes the most sense geographically. It gets Franklin Farm off the bus to Oakton.

Options C and D are awful No way should they have Discovery Square staying at Westfield:
1. It is one of the two closest neighborhoods to the Western High School
2. It would be the only neighborhood north of 50 going to Westfield--which isolates the students from the rest of their school community.

Option B will take way too many kids out of South Lakes.

Also a Fox Mill parent, and I think I would prefer to move to Western because of your 1- we are also extremely close. We don't live in the actual Fox Mill neighborhood despite it being our base school; Carson is one mile away, so Western is technically within FCPS's definition for walking in HS (under 1.5 miles). Also, the rest of our neighborhood is on the other side of West Ox and will be zoned there in every scenario. Our neighborhood was divided in the last major boundary shift, and it would be really great to have the opportunity to be reunited at the HS-level (Scenario 4 did this, but Option A divides us).

I do agree that Discovery Square should be at the new school though. They are a mile away, at most. It doesn't make sense for them to go to Westfield.

[Anonymous]

As a Crossfield parent, I think the school board should prioritize bus rides at this point. Fox Mill has a short bus ride to South Lakes, but Crossfield has a very long bus ride to Oakton. There's no excuse for keeping us at Oakton when there are now going to be three high schoolers that are much closer to our homes.