It's Skyview High.

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Anonymous wrote:Skyview Mascot and Skyview School colors are coming soon as well! I believe this will be an internal vote by the attending kids (maybe parents as well).

It’s sad that kids who’ll eventually be boundaried into the school, in some cases against their will, won’t get to make these decisions.

They had the choice to opt in and participate. All of these choices were going to be made in the first year.

The whole temporary opt-in approach is unfortunate. Maybe they should forget drawing boundaries and just have opt-ins.

So sad to see you keep on trying this. It will be a traditional school. Give it up, you lost.

Other than Reid and the school board are there really any winners in FCPS?

[Anonymous]

I missed yesterday’s meeting. Does anyone have updates worth sharing?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I missed yesterday’s meeting. Does anyone have updates worth sharing?

The people who I know attended said it was a waste. The facilitators in the break out chat rooms had no answers to anyones questions. They also held the meeting at the same time as the rising 7th grader meeting for Carson MS, so parents were pretty upset with that.

Someone complained about them opening the school with dwindling numbers, we have all heard the argment here, even though the schools in the area are well over capacity and the population in that part of the county is growing. They said the moves are mainly coming from Centreville, Westfield and Chantilly, with maybe small effect on Oakton and SLHS. That is pretty much inline with what we already knew.

Reid said the opt in numbers were in the slide deck but they were not and no one provided them.

Essentially, it was the same giant FCPS crap fest that we are all used to. No useful infor provided.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I missed yesterday’s meeting. Does anyone have updates worth sharing?

The people who I know attended said it was a waste. The facilitators in the break out chat rooms had no answers to anyones questions. They also held the meeting at the same time as the rising 7th grader meeting for Carson MS, so parents were pretty upset with that.

Someone complained about them opening the school with dwindling numbers, we have all heard the argment here, even though the schools in the area are well over capacity and the population in that part of the county is growing. They said the moves are mainly coming from Centreville, Westfield and Chantilly, with maybe small effect on Oakton and SLHS. That is pretty much inline with what we already knew.

Reid said the opt in numbers were in the slide deck but they were not and no one provided them.

Essentially, it was the same giant FCPS crap fest that we are all used to. No useful infor provided.

What a joke.

And to be honest when there's such poor information from Reid and her senior people, it just makes people want to stay at their existing schools even more. At least they can assess the school-based leadership and environment, which compare favorably with the Gatehouse leadership responsible for getting Skyview off the ground.

Centreville isn't anywhere near Skyview, so they were just repeating the standard line that Centreville, Westfield, and Chantilly are the "overcrowded" schools (never mind that they plan a massive expansion of Centreville and Westfield is below capacity) and leaving people at Centreville to guess who will back fill Westfield to justify opening Skyview with so many Westfield feeders.

[Anonymous]

They are being vague because the CVHS families don't want to be reassigned from CVHS to Westfield, which is farther away for most and seen as less desirable in the community for lots of reasons. For instance, its much easier to make sports teams at CVHS, CVHS has more of a community feel because its built into a residential neighborhood, etc.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I missed yesterday’s meeting. Does anyone have updates worth sharing?

The people who I know attended said it was a waste. The facilitators in the break out chat rooms had no answers to anyones questions. They also held the meeting at the same time as the rising 7th grader meeting for Carson MS, so parents were pretty upset with that.

Someone complained about them opening the school with dwindling numbers, we have all heard the argment here, even though the schools in the area are well over capacity and the population in that part of the county is growing. They said the moves are mainly coming from Centreville, Westfield and Chantilly, with maybe small effect on Oakton and SLHS. That is pretty much inline with what we already knew.

Reid said the opt in numbers were in the slide deck but they were not and no one provided them.

Essentially, it was the same giant FCPS crap fest that we are all used to. No useful infor provided.

What a joke.

And to be honest when there's such poor information from Reid and her senior people, it just makes people want to stay at their existing schools even more. At least they can assess the school-based leadership and environment, which compare favorably with the Gatehouse leadership responsible for getting Skyview off the ground.

Centreville isn't anywhere near Skyview, so they were just repeating the standard line that Centreville, Westfield, and Chantilly are the "overcrowded" schools (never mind that they plan a massive expansion of Centreville and Westfield is below capacity) and leaving people at Centreville to guess who will back fill Westfield to justify opening Skyview with so many Westfield feeders.

This is not accurate. Westfield was designed for 2500 students. FCPS had a prefab classroom addition stuck on to increase capacity in the early 2000s, and it has many trailers, but its hallways, gym, cafeteria, etc were not expanded and were meant for 2500 kids. At 2800+ students right now, it does not have space for more students nor should more students be added given all the empty seats at Skyview, HHS, etc. Westfield and Chantilly are two of the largest HS by enrolled students in FCPS.

[Anonymous]

I love how Reid kept talking about how they were going to make everyone happy with the boundaries for the new high school. That is literally not possible. They have not even yet begun to hear from some groups who will either be moved to the new high school or to backfill Westfield. If they aren’t using the first set of maps, that means some people who thought they would not be affected will end up being candidates to be moved. They just haven’t heard complaints from those people because they don’t know it yet. Once there are new maps, they’re going to have a whole new group of people vocally complaining.

[Anonymous]

What would have made people happy was to have set the boundaries along with the comprehensive boundary review. People like a degree of certainty and they have created an ongoing process that is anything but certain.
I say that as someone who lives very near the new school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I love how Reid kept talking about how they were going to make everyone happy with the boundaries for the new high school. That is literally not possible. They have not even yet begun to hear from some groups who will either be moved to the new high school or to backfill Westfield. If they aren’t using the first set of maps, that means some people who thought they would not be affected will end up being candidates to be moved. They just haven’t heard complaints from those people because they don’t know it yet. Once there are new maps, they’re going to have a whole new group of people vocally complaining.

Right, when you build a high school on available land in a commercial area, its just not conveniently located to enough residential areas. Very few neighborhoods are closer to Westfield than other high schools, so people aren't going to want to be moved.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I missed yesterday’s meeting. Does anyone have updates worth sharing?

The people who I know attended said it was a waste. The facilitators in the break out chat rooms had no answers to anyones questions. They also held the meeting at the same time as the rising 7th grader meeting for Carson MS, so parents were pretty upset with that.

Someone complained about them opening the school with dwindling numbers, we have all heard the argment here, even though the schools in the area are well over capacity and the population in that part of the county is growing. They said the moves are mainly coming from Centreville, Westfield and Chantilly, with maybe small effect on Oakton and SLHS. That is pretty much inline with what we already knew.

Reid said the opt in numbers were in the slide deck but they were not and no one provided them.

Essentially, it was the same giant FCPS crap fest that we are all used to. No useful infor provided.

What a joke.

And to be honest when there's such poor information from Reid and her senior people, it just makes people want to stay at their existing schools even more. At least they can assess the school-based leadership and environment, which compare favorably with the Gatehouse leadership responsible for getting Skyview off the ground.

Centreville isn't anywhere near Skyview, so they were just repeating the standard line that Centreville, Westfield, and Chantilly are the "overcrowded" schools (never mind that they plan a massive expansion of Centreville and Westfield is below capacity) and leaving people at Centreville to guess who will back fill Westfield to justify opening Skyview with so many Westfield feeders.

This is not accurate. Westfield was designed for 2500 students. FCPS had a prefab classroom addition stuck on to increase capacity in the early 2000s, and it has many trailers, but its hallways, gym, cafeteria, etc were not expanded and were meant for 2500 kids. At 2800+ students right now, it does not have space for more students nor should more students be added given all the empty seats at Skyview, HHS, etc. Westfield and Chantilly are two of the largest HS by enrolled students in FCPS.

You can look at the last CIP. Westfield has a design capacity of 2823, a program capacity of 2815, and a current enrollment of 2761.

By FCPS's own numbers Westfield is under capacity. Schools that have been expanded are not over capacity simply because they have a lot of kids. FCPS can't say Westfield is overcrowded without saying it doesn't know how to measure capacity properly, and if it can't do that it should be fixing that before it makes any decisions affecting school boundaries.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I missed yesterday’s meeting. Does anyone have updates worth sharing?

The people who I know attended said it was a waste. The facilitators in the break out chat rooms had no answers to anyones questions. They also held the meeting at the same time as the rising 7th grader meeting for Carson MS, so parents were pretty upset with that.

Someone complained about them opening the school with dwindling numbers, we have all heard the argment here, even though the schools in the area are well over capacity and the population in that part of the county is growing. They said the moves are mainly coming from Centreville, Westfield and Chantilly, with maybe small effect on Oakton and SLHS. That is pretty much inline with what we already knew.

Reid said the opt in numbers were in the slide deck but they were not and no one provided them.

Essentially, it was the same giant FCPS crap fest that we are all used to. No useful infor provided.

What a joke.

And to be honest when there's such poor information from Reid and her senior people, it just makes people want to stay at their existing schools even more. At least they can assess the school-based leadership and environment, which compare favorably with the Gatehouse leadership responsible for getting Skyview off the ground.

Centreville isn't anywhere near Skyview, so they were just repeating the standard line that Centreville, Westfield, and Chantilly are the "overcrowded" schools (never mind that they plan a massive expansion of Centreville and Westfield is below capacity) and leaving people at Centreville to guess who will back fill Westfield to justify opening Skyview with so many Westfield feeders.

This is not accurate. Westfield was designed for 2500 students. FCPS had a prefab classroom addition stuck on to increase capacity in the early 2000s, and it has many trailers, but its hallways, gym, cafeteria, etc were not expanded and were meant for 2500 kids. At 2800+ students right now, it does not have space for more students nor should more students be added given all the empty seats at Skyview, HHS, etc. Westfield and Chantilly are two of the largest HS by enrolled students in FCPS.

You can look at the last CIP. Westfield has a design capacity of 2823, a program capacity of 2815, and a current enrollment of 2761.

By FCPS's own numbers Westfield is under capacity. Schools that have been expanded are not over capacity simply because they have a lot of kids. FCPS can't say Westfield is overcrowded without saying it doesn't know how to measure capacity properly, and if it can't do that it should be fixing that before it makes any decisions affecting school boundaries.

So its at 98% capacity, one of the largest high schools in the county, and you are complaining that its "below capacity"?

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I don't think kids from Centerville are going to be moved to Skyview. I think kids from Westfield and Chantilly, with a few from SLHS and/or Oakton, will move to Skyview. Kids from Centreville will backfill Westfield.

The fact that they are saying now that they are focused on Chantilly, Centreville, and Westfield makes me think Oakton is off the table with only small moves from SLHS. I know Floris ES would like to be at one HS which would mean moving some kids from SLHS to Skyview.

[Anonymous]

Its wild to me someone would complain that a school with 2761 students and space for a maximum of 2815 is a sign of mismanagement because its below capacity. That's about as close to 100% use of space as you can get without risking going over max use. Do you expect FCPS to redraw boundaries every year to make sure every building is at exactly 100% usage?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't think kids from Centerville are going to be moved to Skyview. I think kids from Westfield and Chantilly, with a few from SLHS and/or Oakton, will move to Skyview. Kids from Centreville will backfill Westfield.

The fact that they are saying now that they are focused on Chantilly, Centreville, and Westfield makes me think Oakton is off the table with only small moves from SLHS. I know Floris ES would like to be at one HS which would mean moving some kids from SLHS to Skyview.

The meeting should have been held at Centreville first, to discuss who they are going to move. That's going to be the biggest headache for FCPS.

[Anonymous]

A school at 98% capacity is FULL. Lord, you people are bizarre.

Where do your kids attend, where you are complaining about loads of open space at Westfield? I subbed there last year and the hallways were like the Metro at rush hour before Covid WFH.