It's Skyview High.

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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"?

Its at 99% capacity, technically. I guess that's not stuffed full enough for Indignant Taxpayer.

[Anonymous]

Here's the deck from last night - really poor quality:

https://www.fcps.edu/system/files/forms/2026-03/2026-03-25_skyviewhsboundary_kickoff.pdf

[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.

FCPS facilities considers a school at 95% capacity "AT capacity". By your numbers, it is not "under capacity".

[Anonymous]

that slide deck is really slop

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:that slide deck is really slop

Ten overpaid Gatehouse employees probably spent a full week putting that togehter.

[Anonymous]

The slide deck from FCPS's meeting last night shows that FCPS projects enrollment declines at four of the five high schools within the scope of the upcoming boundary study (Centreville, Chantilly, Oakton, and Westfield) over the next five years. FCPS also continues to ignore the fact that significant excess capacity exists at Herndon and that its capital plans call for a major expansion of Centreville to 3000 seats, which will leave CVHS with hundreds of surplus seats in the future. If FCPS expands CVHS as planned, and moves CVHS kids into Westfield to backfill Westfield, CVHS stands to have even more surplus capacity without yet other boundary changes that, in turn, could leave other schools with hundreds of vacant seats.

[Anonymous]

I think its only common sense that their renovation of CVHS needs to be scaled way back.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

FCPS facilities considers a school at 95% capacity "AT capacity". By your numbers, it is not "under capacity".

The last CIP includes Westfield in a group identified as "Schools with Sufficient Capacity for Current Programs and Future Growth" by 2030-31. That's not "overcrowded."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think its only common sense that their renovation of CVHS needs to be scaled way back.

The last annual CIP with its continued plans to expand CVHS to 3000 seats was adopted roughly five months after FCPS purchased KAA. Where was the common sense then?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:that slide deck is really slop

Ten overpaid Gatehouse employees probably spent a full week putting that togehter.

A high school intern could have done a better job. It was just recycled garbage.

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Is the consultant really WXY or did they forget to put the name of the company in? (slide 12)

I am laughing at the people who are arguing that the drop in enrolment numbers is going to leave room for all the students at those 5 HS. Schools might drop to 98% capacity. This is not like the schools that are in the low 90% capacity or even lower then that. All 5 schools are full. Moving some kids out of the overcrowded schools to Skyview is not going to drop any of those schools to being drastically undercapacity, they all will be a bit more comfortable to walk in.

Centreville can be renovated without the expansion and save the county a bunch of money.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

FCPS facilities considers a school at 95% capacity "AT capacity". By your numbers, it is not "under capacity".

The last CIP includes Westfield in a group identified as "Schools with Sufficient Capacity for Current Programs and Future Growth" by 2030-31. That's not "overcrowded."

Where do your kids go to school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is the consultant really WXY or did they forget to put the name of the company in? (slide 12)

I am laughing at the people who are arguing that the drop in enrolment numbers is going to leave room for all the students at those 5 HS. Schools might drop to 98% capacity. This is not like the schools that are in the low 90% capacity or even lower then that. All 5 schools are full. Moving some kids out of the overcrowded schools to Skyview is not going to drop any of those schools to being drastically undercapacity, they all will be a bit more comfortable to walk in.

Centreville can be renovated without the expansion and save the county a bunch of money.

Big is not the same as full, and your opinion about scaling back the CVHS renovation counts for nothing when FCPS just put out a CIP and got a bond approved that are both premised on continuing to expand CVHS to 3000.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

FCPS facilities considers a school at 95% capacity "AT capacity". By your numbers, it is not "under capacity".

The last CIP includes Westfield in a group identified as "Schools with Sufficient Capacity for Current Programs and Future Growth" by 2030-31. That's not "overcrowded."

Where do your kids go to school?

her kids go to Langley, obviously. Those are the sourpusses over Skyview because they are worried about getting rezoned to HHS.

[Anonymous]

Maybe we should bus some kids to Langley and fill it up to 100% capacity. Isn't there a TON of extra capacity?