Western High School Boundary Map options (A/B/C/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]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I think they are walkers to Crossfield?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I think it's important to maintain continuity for all South Lakes students. People prepare for the IB program starting in 7th grade, it's not fair to rezone them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

I keep hearing that the Crossfield parents want to stay at Oakton........is there a split opinion based on grades? (i.e. 4th and below want to go to the new high school and 5th/6th want to stay at Oakton)?

[Anonymous]

I was told that the Boundary Review site is going to be updated with the Western scenarios next week and then a comment period will open, so finally the boundary issues are converging.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

I keep hearing that the Crossfield parents want to stay at Oakton........is there a split opinion based on grades? (i.e. 4th and below want to go to the new high school and 5th/6th want to stay at Oakton)?

Absolutely this. It's people who have older kids 7th and above who want to stay at Oakton. People with younger kids seem happy about the much shorter commute. People with older kids really want to maintain continuity - they want their younger kids to go where their older kids went. And a lot of those families care a lot about sports.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was told that the Boundary Review site is going to be updated with the Western scenarios next week and then a comment period will open, so finally the boundary issues are converging.

They said that, but curious how they will integrate the four options? Will they build them on top of Scenario 4 and essentially create Scenarios 5 through 8?