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

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02/07/2026 17:01

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

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Anonymous wrote:I'm just going to be really upset if the Oakton moms have their way and my child ends up being literally the only kids from Carson that go to Oakton.

They'll switch Crossfield to Franklin, I'm sure. But, Crossfield would be at new school if they used objective standards.

Ugh, I don't want my kids to go to Franklin. Carson is such a great school.

Franklin is slated to be renovated in 2029 according to the latest CIP. If they get rid of middle school centers so that Franklin has all the in-boundary kids that currently go to Carson it will be just as great of a school. Bring back those AAP kids and watch the test scores (and school rating) go up.
I still think Crossfield should stay at Carson and go to the new Western school - but if they stay at Oakton instead then it is only logical to move them to Franklin and Oak Hill to Carson. Such an easy way to fix part of the worst split feeder situation in the county.

All of this. Carson is artificially propped up by the exceptionally high number of AAP kids coming from other middle schools. Each middle school should have its own AAP program and bussing Franklin kids to Carson should stop. And when they finally set the boundaries for the new HS they should clean up the Carson /Franklin boundaries as well.

Franklin is super close to Carson, there cant be all that much of a savings

Putting AAP at every MS would be a county-wide decision, but you knew that. Carson may be close to Franklin, but the savings would add up.

Carson is the prime example, however, of an AAP middle school whose reputation is largely derived from kids with a different base school.

Why is that a problem? Sounds like a great opportunity for those kids!

Over the years, the overcrowded middle schools typically are AAP centers while the most under-enrolled middle schools don't have AAP.

We end up paying additional transportation costs that could be avoided if kids accessed AAP at their base schools.

It also leads to more high school pupil placements than would otherwise be the case, simply because kids want to stay with other kids from their middle school AAP centers. Again, that can distort enrollments (it's one reason, for example, why Lake Braddock has over 2900 9-12 students this year).

You get a brain drain out of some middle schools and hyper-competitive AAP centers like Carson, along with parents who toss around superlatives about their schools without acknowledging it's largely due to the large number of elementary schools funneling their AAP kids into certain middle schools.

The School Board appears to have concluded the costs outweigh the benefits; hence, they've directed Reid to come up with a plan to have AAP at each middle school. It can't be done without boundary changes, however, at some schools (Rocky Run and Thoreau immediately come to mind).