King Abdullah Academy Closing: FCPS Buy for HS?

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All of Floris, McNair, and Fox Mill go to Carson. Most of Coates and Crossfield go there, along with a small part of Oak Hill (rest of Oak Hill goes to Franklin).

The people who are being really aggressive on the topic seem to be Crossfield folks insisting that they'll have dibs on the new school.

I don't think anyone has "dibs."

The Crossfield folks currently go to Oakton --which is a very long way.
Chantilly (while projected to lose membership) is the school that needs relief.

I could see Fox Mill staying with South Lakes. South Lakes is not going to want to give them up.

Fox Mill attends Carson, which will be next to the new HS. It makes sense for Fox Mill to attend the new HS.

And yes, I am a Fox Mill parent who doesn't like IB and doesn't want to move to Hughes. Moving the Carson base school students into the new HS would make sense. It ends the split feeder problem at Carson and the distances work for the Carson base schools kids. SLHS doesn't lose that many students because Fox Mill is a small number of the kids. Not to mention, a good number of the Fox Mill family's pupil place to AP schools because they don't want IB. The number of pupil departures are hidden by the Herndon kids who move to SLHS for IB because they don't want to be at Herndon.

You don't know that the new high school won't be IB.

I would be shocked if the new HS is IB. Some where around 300 kids complete the IB diploma every year across the county. I think more kids pupil place out of IB then complete the degree. It is an expensive program that people are not interested in.

The two most recent high schools opened (Westfield and South County) both are AP schools. I also think the folks in the area would strongly prefer AP.

Big difference between eliminating IB and starting it at a new school. Parents in this area have made it clear they would prefer AP. I cannot imagine with all the pushback and pupil placement with this that they would make it an iB school.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow. The facilities are stunning. The campus won awards. There won’t be a need to renovate apart from some minor ed specification issues.

https://www.kaa-herndon.com/about-us/facilities

It's good to know we'll get a new high school with the "separate entries and play spaces" for high school students.

We'll need to see exactly what types of modifications are required, and how much it will cost on top of the advertised price.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow. The facilities are stunning. The campus won awards. There won’t be a need to renovate apart from some minor ed specification issues.

https://www.kaa-herndon.com/about-us/facilities

^Do click on the photos to cycle through the slide show: There are beautiful details like the geometric patterns for the screens. Lush courtyards, and a beautiful lobby with terraced seats. The school even has a regulation size interior swimming pool. FCPS really wins with this campus. Westfield looks like a “prison” in comparison.

Do you have any idea how obnoxious you sound?

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Bad news, guys. Other high schools in the county don’t have swimming pools, so this one will likely be filled in with concrete.

Thank equitable access to programs for that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bad news, guys. Other high schools in the county don’t have swimming pools, so this one will likely be filled in with concrete.

Thank equitable access to programs for that.

Falls Church HS has a swimming pool on the other side of the football stadium. (It’s part of the recreation center.)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Bad news, guys. Other high schools in the county don’t have swimming pools, so this one will likely be filled in with concrete.

Thank equitable access to programs for that.

Falls Church HS has a swimming pool on the other side of the football stadium. (It’s part of the recreation center.)

Crap, we need to fill that one in too. Thanks for flagging the inequity. If not everyone can have a pool at their school, then no one can have a pool.

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Anonymous wrote:They should open it as a TJ type school but for the Arts.

Because what this country needs is more Starbucks employees with six-figure college debt.

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Anonymous wrote:Bad news, guys. Other high schools in the county don’t have swimming pools, so this one will likely be filled in with concrete.

Thank equitable access to programs for that.

The Arlington high schools have swimming pools to which public access is provided. They attract a lot of pervs.

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Anonymous wrote:Bad news, guys. Other high schools in the county don’t have swimming pools, so this one will likely be filled in with concrete.

Thank equitable access to programs for that.

Falls Church HS has a swimming pool on the other side of the football stadium. (It’s part of the recreation center.)

Crap, we need to fill that one in too. Thanks for flagging the inequity. If not everyone can have a pool at their school, then no one can have a pool.

The pool is in Providence Rec Center. Not FCHS. That’s like saying there’s a pool at Spring Hill ES.

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Anonymous wrote:Bad news, guys. Other high schools in the county don’t have swimming pools, so this one will likely be filled in with concrete.

Thank equitable access to programs for that.

Falls Church HS has a swimming pool on the other side of the football stadium. (It’s part of the recreation center.)

Crap, we need to fill that one in too. Thanks for flagging the inequity. If not everyone can have a pool at their school, then no one can have a pool.

The pool is in Providence Rec Center. Not FCHS. That’s like saying there’s a pool at Spring Hill ES.

Bingo.

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This would be a good time to add an AAP center at Franklin and give Carson some nice clean feeder boundaries to the new HS.

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Anonymous wrote:Hope many students can the school accommodate?

Google says recent enrollment was 739 with an 8:1 student/teacher ratio.

1200 students currently at KAA

Private schools have much lower class size caps than FCPS.

How many classrooms does that school have? FCPS will pack the classrooms with 30-35 students in a class.

30-35 kids won’t fit

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Anonymous wrote:Wow. The facilities are stunning. The campus won awards. There won’t be a need to renovate apart from some minor ed specification issues.

https://www.kaa-herndon.com/about-us/facilities

Though beautiful, the school was built for a different purpose. For example, it’s symmetrical with a boys side and a girls side. Renovations will be needed.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wow. The facilities are stunning. The campus won awards. There won’t be a need to renovate apart from some minor ed specification issues.

https://www.kaa-herndon.com/about-us/facilities

Though beautiful, the school was built for a different purpose. For example, it’s symmetrical with a boys side and a girls side. Renovations will be needed.

I suppose freshmen and sophomores could go on one side. Or perhaps one side could be science and tech labs. Or reconfigured for an academy. I can’t imagine the school would need more than 50 million of upgrades (which accounts for tarrifs). I do hope they keep the pool and lush courtyards. What great student and community amenities

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Anonymous wrote:Hope many students can the school accommodate?

Google says recent enrollment was 739 with an 8:1 student/teacher ratio.

1200 students currently at KAA

Private schools have much lower class size caps than FCPS.

How many classrooms does that school have? FCPS will pack the classrooms with 30-35 students in a class.

30-35 kids won’t fit

In see that the average class size at KAA is 20 students. I wonder if they would have to reconfigure the inside to expand physical classroom sizes?