FCPS Boundary Review Updates

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did you guys see the boundary review slides for Scenario 1: Attendance islands?

https://www.fcps.edu/system/files/forms/2025-04/4-11-2025_superintendent_boundary_review_advisory_committee_presentation.pdf

Looks like the focus for the next meeting on 4/25 is split feeders…

The stupidity is abundant display there, where the elimination of attendance islands in many of the scenarios, without other changes, widens the capacity gaps between schools. In other words, they take two schools, one with an attendance island, both at around 90% capacity, and then with the elimination of the attendance island push one of the schools near or over capacity.

These people are so incredibly ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

I'm 99.5% sure that moving the boundaries for Ravensworth to fix the attendance island would put Kings Glen (4-6) in Ravensworth territory, increasing the amount of bussing necessary as those kids would have been able to walk to both kings park and kings Glen.

[Anonymous]

Wow - these scenarios are awful in the slides. “Fixing” one problem and creating another. This is embarrassing.

So much for the “pause”. I think that poster was trolling, as they talked about future meetings on 4/25 and 5/5. Sigh!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Did you guys see the boundary review slides for Scenario 1: Attendance islands?

https://www.fcps.edu/system/files/forms/2025-04/4-11-2025_superintendent_boundary_review_advisory_committee_presentation.pdf

Looks like the focus for the next meeting on 4/25 is split feeders…

The stupidity is abundant display there, where the elimination of attendance islands in many of the scenarios, without other changes, widens the capacity gaps between schools. In other words, they take two schools, one with an attendance island, both at around 90% capacity, and then with the elimination of the attendance island push one of the schools near or over capacity.

These people are so incredibly ridiculous.

The scenarios make no sense on multiple levels. They fix the Ravensworth attendance island by moving walkers to Kings Glen to Ravensworth, and the maps for fixing the island at Johnson MS doesn't match the map for fixing the island at Fairfax HS (and both proposals create split feeders at Willow Springs and Fairfax Villa). The proposal for fixing the islands at Longfellow takes students from Jackson, but that's not listed in the slide (it is addressed later in the Graham Road slide, which includes middle school changes but not high school changes).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did you guys see the boundary review slides for Scenario 1: Attendance islands?

https://www.fcps.edu/system/files/forms/2025-04/4-11-2025_superintendent_boundary_review_advisory_committee_presentation.pdf

Looks like the focus for the next meeting on 4/25 is split feeders…

Thanks - this is VERY interesting. Looks like they want to move Keene Mill’s island between Cardinal Forest and White Oaks, mostly White Oaks. Are all the kids in the island right now attending Lake Braddock? So this would have no effect on the WS/LB enrollments?

This also doesn’t seem to be all the split feeders because there are a number of ES that split between Edison and Hayfield.

[Anonymous]

PP here and just realized those don’t have islands so they weren’t discussed here yet.

[Anonymous]

Is this the first time we’ve seen them note split feeders with < 25% as the caveat to which split feeders they need to stress? I’m glad they realized it’s physically impossible to get rid of them all together. Is there anyone who knows where we can find the stats on the split feeders (specifically Franklin)?

[Anonymous]

I don't understand the Ft. Hunt Elementary adjustment slide. Are they eliminating the island across Rt. 1? It's the same color in the 'current' and 'proposed' slides. Also the proposal for moving kids to Mt. Vernon from WestPo along Sherwood is going to be interesting.

[Anonymous]

Looking at these options - I think many of these actually look quite sensible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Did you guys see the boundary review slides for Scenario 1: Attendance islands?

https://www.fcps.edu/system/files/forms/2025-04/4-11-2025_superintendent_boundary_review_advisory_committee_presentation.pdf

Looks like the focus for the next meeting on 4/25 is split feeders…

The stupidity is abundant display there, where the elimination of attendance islands in many of the scenarios, without other changes, widens the capacity gaps between schools. In other words, they take two schools, one with an attendance island, both at around 90% capacity, and then with the elimination of the attendance island push one of the schools near or over capacity.

These people are so incredibly ridiculous.

Some schools would be quite under enrolled with these changes without many options to pick up other students. Like Lorton Station and Hayfield can absorb Halley’s island at Hagel Circle without putting either school over capacity, but taking 146 kids out of Halley brings them down to an enrollment of roughly 480 and 68% capacity. They could take a few streets out of Silverbrook, but if they go too far they’d give some kids a much longer bus ride.

[Anonymous]

It looks like in the course of proposing to "fix" the attendance islands at Longfellow/McLean, and the current situation where Graham Road ES is located its current boundaries, they would potentially, among other things:

* Move the "Tysons island" from Longfellow/McLean to Cooper/Langley (which would eliminate the current split feeder at Spring Hill);

* Move part of Shrevewood (Falls Hill) from Kilmer/Marshall to Longfellow/McLean, and turn Shrevewood into a new split feeder;

* Move part of Shrevewood to Timber Lane and part of Timber Lane to Graham Road; and

* Move part of Jackson to Longfellow, while keeping those kids at Falls Church, thereby turning Longfellow into a new split feeder.

It's a lot of changes for comparatively little benefit and some new split feeders. They end up with a lot of boundaries that look highly gerrymandered but without attendance islands.

They also show, as part of the domino effect of "fixing" the Graham Road situation, moving the Madison kids at Kilmer over to Thoreau. That's probably fine with Madison parents but doubt they would have anticipated it as a outgrowth of dealing with Graham Road ES.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It looks like in the course of proposing to "fix" the attendance islands at Longfellow/McLean, and the current situation where Graham Road ES is located its current boundaries, they would potentially, among other things:

* Move the "Tysons island" from Longfellow/McLean to Cooper/Langley (which would eliminate the current split feeder at Spring Hill);

* Move part of Shrevewood (Falls Hill) from Kilmer/Marshall to Longfellow/McLean, and turn Shrevewood into a new split feeder;

* Move part of Shrevewood to Timber Lane and part of Timber Lane to Graham Road; and

* Move part of Jackson to Longfellow, while keeping those kids at Falls Church, thereby turning Longfellow into a new split feeder.

It's a lot of changes for comparatively little benefit and some new split feeders. They end up with a lot of boundaries that look highly gerrymandered but without attendance islands.

They also show, as part of the domino effect of "fixing" the Graham Road situation, moving the Madison kids at Kilmer over to Thoreau. That's probably fine with Madison parents but doubt they would have anticipated it as a outgrowth of dealing with Graham Road ES.

One correction - they would be moving part of Timber Lane to Shrevewood, not moving part of Shrevewood to Timber Lane.

[Anonymous]

The Longfellow/mclean boundary looks clearer to me and solves capacity and keeps neighborhood together.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Longfellow/mclean boundary looks clearer to me and solves capacity and keeps neighborhood together.

I think the Falls Hill folks would be fairly surprised at the apparent proposal to move them out of Kilmer/Marshall and turn Shrevewood into a split feeder.

And for all the talk of paying attention to major highways like Route 7 and 29, they'd be crossing Route 29 and going all the way down to Route 50 to send kids now at Jackson to Longfellow.

[Anonymous]

They would create a new split feeder at Longfellow that would be about 95% to McLean and 5% to Falls Church. Maybe they solve that on 4/25.