Boundary Review Meetings
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Anonymous
| The reviews in 5 and 10 years will be very interesting for the GFCA, LOL. They need to start pushing hard for renovations and expansions at McLean, or else all the planned growth in Tysons is going to start pushing kids out of Marshall and McLean into Langley, and then there is one obvious area to jettison if more space is needed at Langley to accommodate this growth … |
Anonymous
Yes. A Langley BRAC member lives 2 miles from Herndon High. |
Anonymous
The middle school AAP option for South County is Lake Braddock?? Why doesn't SoCo have its own AAP? |
Anonymous
It does. Hayfield and Lewis don’t, so Saratoga/Lorton Station/Hayfield-Gunston go to Lake Braddock. |
Anonymous
Not to be the Grumble Grumble poster, but GFCA could be making a big stink about Spring Hill for this exact reason but they’ve accepted it in endorsing Scenario 4. |
Anonymous
I think they are not making a stink because if they did complain about overcrowding there, there is a very, very easy solution that they do not like. They made it clear in that letter that they should not move any more kids into Langley. Interesting that one group has so much power. |
Anonymous
I don't know why this group of a VERY SMALL PORTION OF FCPS FAMILIES has such huge influence. |
Anonymous
| Now I'd like GFCA to put out a letter about their Western High scenario. I am guessing they are the ones who put in the comment into the boundary tool about moving McNair and Coates into Herndon HS. Which is never going to happen. |
Anonymous
I’m not convinced that the development in Tysons will materialize that quickly, and I’m not convinced that Herndon will have as much room as it does now, and I’m not convinced that the downward student population trends will reverse over the next few years. Also, with the return of AAP students to their base schools, HMS will not be in a place to absorb that many students. And finally, I’m not convinced a future school board is going to want to spend its tenure engaged in a bruising fight again, rather than focus on actions that might improve the school system rather than diminish it. Lots would have to go right for that move to happen. |
Anonymous
South County has an AAP center for students assigned as South County MS base school. These schools had transfers into Lorton Station and 52 would get transportation if that's the assigned ES AAP transfer: Gunston 10, AAP MS South County /Lake Braddock Saratoga 29, AAP MS Lake Braddock Newington Forest 10, AAP Lorton Station,MS South County Silverbrook <10, AAP Lorton Station,MS South County Halley <10, AAP Lorton Station, South County Laurel Hill 17, AAP Lorton Station, South County Island Creek <10 Rose Hill <10 Stratford Landing <10 Hybla Valley <10 Woodley Hills <10 Lorton Station current base school -AAP onsite , Lake Braddock AAP ratmaze https://www.fcps.edu/academics/elementary/advanced-academic-programs/advanced-academic-level-iv-school |
Anonymous
Lewis would improve do much in 3-4 years if Key had its own AAP program and all the Key/Lewis zoned smart kids weren't transferring into Lake Braddock. |
Anonymous
Cute conspiracy theory. They don’t have a position on the school. Most people in great falls don’t care about the school because it doesn’t affect us directly. There are a few people who question the costs for the school, just like the school board members have done recently. |
Anonymous
Some people don't understand that Great Falls, like every other area, has a diversity of views. The GFCA thinks of itself as representing the middle-of-the-road position for Great Falls, which is more conservative than most of Fairfax but still purple/blue. They figured out that the School Board, with Robyn Lady's strong support, is going to move the Spring Hill island at McLean, which accounts for about 200 kids, from McLean to Langley whether they like it or not. So, unlike in 2021, when they pushed successfully to keep Langley without any part of Tysons, they saw the writing on the wall and decided their best shot was to support Scenario 4 (which does move part of Tysons into Langley) but oppose any further movement of kids into Langley. Others in Great Falls disagree with that approach, and they oppose moving any kids into Langley, just like they oppose the western high school (aka "have a lot of questions about the process" for buying KAA). They showed up at the community meeting at Oakton to complain about Scenario 4, and they posted comments in the boundary explorer tool demanding that McLean "fix its own problems" or that FCPS move McLean kids into schools in Falls Church or Vienna rather than Langley. They say the things that the GFCA or FairFACTS Matters might like to say, but don't because they don't want to appear totally self-centered. At the end of the day, the impact will be to buy the Great Falls parents another five years. If there's continued growth in Tysons and West Falls Church, it could further overcrowd Langley, McLean, or Marshall, and lead to moving some Langley kids to Herndon. But five years gives Great Falls plenty of time to push for other solutions, whether it's cutting back on pupil placements to Langley (Robyn Lady wants to halt pupil placements for foreign language, which accounts for many of the current pupil placements to Langley), relocating a modular to Langley, or finally getting an addition to McLean in the queue. |
Anonymous
I'm not convinced they might not move kids to Herndon HS at some point and make another middle school a split feeder to Herndon if Herndon MS doesn't have enough capacity. |
Anonymous
BS. You don't speak for all of Great Falls nor does Fairfax Matters or the very limited number of persons who are on the GFCA. It's great that FCPS did this and spending 50m+ more to make it a solid AP comprehensive HS is a worthwhile use of our tax dollars for a county wide school division. Main complainer on Western is Meren. That one also voted NO on all MS having AAP. Lady likes the concept of a Loudoun style magnet BUT recognizes that this is a different situation since she stated there are 1700 students learning in trailers and 2 modulars in all involved schools. TJ as an option was created because FCPS had low enrollment at the site. Those 2 modulars, Chantilly and Centreville, were installed in 2005. Churchill Rd has one that was installed in 2006 with a 280 student capacity. So as Tysons grows and empty nesters residences get replaced by k-12 there eventually could be an ES capacity deficit. 4 feeders had 533 less members in SY2024-25 than in SY2004-05. Spring Hill grew by 206. |