FCPS Skyview Boundary Revised Scenario 1 / 2

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Anonymous wrote:If a lot of Westfield families are contacting the lady who just started running for school board two weeks ago, imagine how many have contacted the actual school board members and FCPS!

Their concerns are being completely ignored. We know this because every iteration of the map gets worse and worse for Westfield.

I suspect that just means a handful of Westfield parents are responding to some of her Facebook posts.

The Westfield parents don't seem that engaged IRL. There's a School Board meeting tomorrow and not a single speaker appears to be a Westfield parent. Two of the speakers are regulars who signed up to talk about FCPS Pride. They speak all the time so if someone new was trying to speak it seems like they would have gotten priority.

Maybe more people will sign up for the public hearing in July.

+100. I have attended most of the boundary meetings throughout this process and, to date, I have not heard any Westfield parents speak during the public comment sessions. Not even 1.

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting that Seema and Sandy aren't allowing any public conversations on their facebook pages on this topic.

When you are part of the 7-member bloc on the SB that can dictate any outcome, you don't really enjoy being questioned or dissent of any kind. And, let's be honest, Seema and Sandy aren't equipped with the intellectual tools to engage in a back-and-forth.

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Who does Centreville Parent think should be moved out of Centreville? Does she/he agree that the BRES apartment kids should be kept at Centreville?

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Anonymous wrote:If a lot of Westfield families are contacting the lady who just started running for school board two weeks ago, imagine how many have contacted the actual school board members and FCPS!

Their concerns are being completely ignored. We know this because every iteration of the map gets worse and worse for Westfield.

I suspect that just means a handful of Westfield parents are responding to some of her Facebook posts.

The Westfield parents don't seem that engaged IRL. There's a School Board meeting tomorrow and not a single speaker appears to be a Westfield parent. Two of the speakers are regulars who signed up to talk about FCPS Pride. They speak all the time so if someone new was trying to speak it seems like they would have gotten priority.

Maybe more people will sign up for the public hearing in July.

+100. I have attended most of the boundary meetings throughout this process and, to date, I have not heard any Westfield parents speak during the public comment sessions. Not even 1.

As people have pointed out on here, its difficult to stand up and say other people's kids need to be moved to your school. Westfield parents posted on here that they were at the last meeting after the map came out gutting their school numbers.

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Anonymous wrote:1. The 77 BRES apartment kids should be moved back to Centreville since they are much closer to CVHS than WFHS.

2. The two far northern/western BRES SPAs should be moved to Stone/Westfield since they are far away from both HS.

3. The Cub Run split/Walney Village should stay at Westfield (WO should be moved too but that ship has sailed).

4. The CHS walkers should be moved back to CHS and sent to RRMS.

Does that neighborhood actually walk to Chantilly? Google maps has them walking on the side of 50 to get there. I can't imagine that is correct.

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Anonymous wrote:Who does Centreville Parent think should be moved out of Centreville? Does she/he agree that the BRES apartment kids should be kept at Centreville?

I'm curious about this too. Someone needs to get moved to Westfield from CVHS. That was one of the main reasons Skyview was purchased. Which area makes most sense? We all agree that the apartment kids who are closer to CVHS should stay, right?

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Anonymous wrote:Every neighborhood off Walney Road, and in the Walney area, should go to Westfield, not Chantilly. It is illogical not to send those kids to Westfield.

Ignoring their leaving Oakton too large, that is what would come closer to balancing enrollments at Centreville/Chantilly/Westfield.

Not really. Chantilly is moving 333 kids to Skyview and another 309 to Westfield. 639 kids. Time for Centreville to contribute something more than 77 kids, especially since the final scenario has it still at 104% capacity. Then, we can kill two birds with one stone and scale back this massive renovation/misuse of taxpayer dollars there while we are at it.

If you are so concerned about a misuse of taxpayer dollars, kill off Skyview. Otherwise shrinking a school that is already much smaller than its neighbors is about as dumb as it gets.

I think it makes sense for school enrollments to match the building size. Not really a radical idea.

Centreville is below the 105% capacity that FCPS treated as a threshold for possible adjustments in the county-wide review. I say "possible adjustments" because they left at least one high school over 105% untouched.

Also, CVHS's renovation and expansion has been in the CIP for years. They can take another look at the scope, but CVHS deserves to have a building capacity in line with other schools. Not really a radical idea.

A 2000 student building capacity is completely in the normal range for FCPS HS. There is nothing unusual about it whatsoever.

Here's Sully complaining that CVHS has "hundreds" more students than it was built for and that they are many years away from any new building. I guess she would support sending some of those kids over to the empty seats at Westfield.

https://www.ffxnow.com/2026/06/24/county-board-approves-sweeping-vision-for-mixed-use-walkable-spaces-in-centreville/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=nextdoor.com&utm_campaign=nextdoor_news

BS. Centreville currently is at the bottom or near bottom of capacities for FCPS high schools. You're entitled to your own opinions, but not your own facts.

NP-If they are leaving 800 seats open at WF adjacent to Centreville, there is no need for a much larger school in that part of the county. No clue if 2000 is average but there are many schols in FCPS around that size.

A sensible school system would want detailed projections on how many students their new affordable housing project / redevelopment is going to yield before making a final decision on whether to expand Centreville and if so, by how many seats. Its clear there is absolutely no need for seats today in 2026 given all the extra space in the area.

At present, Centreville has the lowest program capacity of any high school in the county, excluding temporary structures. It's in an area slated for future growth, and nearby areas instead are part of an attendance island that goes to Fairfax. Expanding CVHS during its upcoming renovation would be sound planning for the future, regardless of any short-term declines in enrollment in FCPS.

They actually will be directing Reid to come back by the end of August with a recommendation as to how to proceed with the renovation and whether scope modifications are warranted. But it would be short-sighted to shelve any expansion at all.

Incorrect. According to the Skyview map, Lewis is lower, and McLean is the same. I didn't click through every school. Where are you getting your facts?

My apologies. Source is the latest CIP. Lewis is indeed lower, and McLean is higher, not the same. Falls Church is also listed as lower but it's about to finish an expansion to increase its design and program capacity to around 2500.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:1. The 77 BRES apartment kids should be moved back to Centreville since they are much closer to CVHS than WFHS.

2. The two far northern/western BRES SPAs should be moved to Stone/Westfield since they are far away from both HS.

3. The Cub Run split/Walney Village should stay at Westfield (WO should be moved too but that ship has sailed).

4. The CHS walkers should be moved back to CHS and sent to RRMS.

Does that neighborhood actually walk to Chantilly? Google maps has them walking on the side of 50 to get there. I can't imagine that is correct.

Why would they do that when they can walk through neighborhoods behind the library?

I think its not a designated walk zone hence why it was up for grabs to move, but the fact that it IS walkable to Chantilly means the low income kids who live there with transportation issues can still get themselves to school if they miss the bus, or stay after school for sports and get themselves home, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:1. The 77 BRES apartment kids should be moved back to Centreville since they are much closer to CVHS than WFHS.

2. The two far northern/western BRES SPAs should be moved to Stone/Westfield since they are far away from both HS.

3. The Cub Run split/Walney Village should stay at Westfield (WO should be moved too but that ship has sailed).

4. The CHS walkers should be moved back to CHS and sent to RRMS.

Does that neighborhood actually walk to Chantilly? Google maps has them walking on the side of 50 to get there. I can't imagine that is correct.

Pretty sure there is bus service. However, it is walkable. There is a service road to Brookfield community and there are back ways to Chantilly behind the library.
The point is that they are able to participate in after school activities. They can walk, if needed. Westfield is too far to walk and this will encourage truancy.

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Anonymous wrote:Who does Centreville Parent think should be moved out of Centreville? Does she/he agree that the BRES apartment kids should be kept at Centreville?

I'm curious about this too. Someone needs to get moved to Westfield from CVHS. That was one of the main reasons Skyview was purchased. Which area makes most sense? We all agree that the apartment kids who are closer to CVHS should stay, right?

I don't agree that overcrowding at CVHS was truly a "main reason" why FCPS bought KAA.

The main reasons why Skyview were purchased were (1) a long-standing promise to give Floris/Oak Hill its own high school, which had been reflected in the CIP for many years; (2) what the School Board viewed as a unique opportunity or bargain purchase to acquire an existing school; and (3) overcrowding at Chantilly.

Overcrowding at CVHS was abating and there was already a plan to renovate and expand the school. Citing overcrowding at CVHS and Westfield (which has trailers but is technically under capacity) were more in the nature of made-up justifications, about as important in the scheme of things as the statements that buying KAA would allow for some Oakton kids to have shorter commutes (which we all know has now gone by the wayside).

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Every previous map besides the last "final" map left westfield with enough kids, so presumably that's why you haven't been hearing parents from there (that and, half the current parents are being moved to Skyview). i'm sure they were shocked that the "final" boundary solution left them with hundreds fewer kids than every previous suggested map.

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Anonymous wrote:1. The 77 BRES apartment kids should be moved back to Centreville since they are much closer to CVHS than WFHS.

2. The two far northern/western BRES SPAs should be moved to Stone/Westfield since they are far away from both HS.

3. The Cub Run split/Walney Village should stay at Westfield (WO should be moved too but that ship has sailed).

4. The CHS walkers should be moved back to CHS and sent to RRMS.

Does that neighborhood actually walk to Chantilly? Google maps has them walking on the side of 50 to get there. I can't imagine that is correct.

Why would they do that when they can walk through neighborhoods behind the library?

I think its not a designated walk zone hence why it was up for grabs to move, but the fact that it IS walkable to Chantilly means the low income kids who live there with transportation issues can still get themselves to school if they miss the bus, or stay after school for sports and get themselves home, etc.

I don't know, I don't live there, that's why I'm asking. I do live nearby and truthfully it seems logistically difficult and too far away for walkers.

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Anonymous wrote:Who does Centreville Parent think should be moved out of Centreville? Does she/he agree that the BRES apartment kids should be kept at Centreville?

I'm curious about this too. Someone needs to get moved to Westfield from CVHS. That was one of the main reasons Skyview was purchased. Which area makes most sense? We all agree that the apartment kids who are closer to CVHS should stay, right?

Someone earlier (not sure if it was you) thought that area was super close to CVHS when in fact it's super close to Mountain View, not CVHS. It's closer to CVHS than Westfield, but not particularly close to either.

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You know I appreciate that Westfield parents haven't been at every meeting for the past year complaining. They seemed fine to take any regular mix of kids, and only became unhappy when the projected enrollment dipped well below every previous estimate. I think that behavior is reasonable.

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Anonymous wrote:Who does Centreville Parent think should be moved out of Centreville? Does she/he agree that the BRES apartment kids should be kept at Centreville?

I'm curious about this too. Someone needs to get moved to Westfield from CVHS. That was one of the main reasons Skyview was purchased. Which area makes most sense? We all agree that the apartment kids who are closer to CVHS should stay, right?

Someone earlier (not sure if it was you) thought that area was super close to CVHS when in fact it's super close to Mountain View, not CVHS. It's closer to CVHS than Westfield, but not particularly close to either.

Its two miles away from CVHS. That's much closer to CVHS than every other part of Bull Run that is staying at CVHS.