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Anonymous
That's how the WSHS parents feel. Will be VERY interested to see the capacity adjustments. |
Anonymous
| When is the capacity meeting? |
Anonymous
| Are there more split feeder changes going to come out? I thought Lemon Road was a split feeder where very few students go to Longfellow/McLean. I did not see them mentioned in this iteration. I saw they moved the small neighborhood out of Westgate to Franklin-Sherman. |
Anonymous
Lemon Road wasn’t considered because the school is located in the smaller catchment area (McLean) and they can’t reassign the McLean zone to Marshall because it would cut off their bridge to Timber Lane. |
Anonymous
Lemon Road is physically located in the area that feeds to Longfellow/McLean. They said in the deck they didn’t look at such split feeders. Franklin Sherman needs more kids but reassigning kids who literally live next door to Westgate to FS doesn’t make sense. They need to take a look at the new split feeders they created at schools like Shrevewood, Kilmer, and Longfellow. Sending a very small number of Kilmer kids to McLean or Longfellow kids to Falls Church makes no sense. |
Anonymous
I don’t know if there’s going to be that change at this point, especially with 100+ leaving Rolling Valley for Saratoga. Yes those kids already (nominally) went to Key and Lewis, but 100 kids out of Rolling Valley is a lot, and will give some flexibility to change the ES boundaries to avoid crowding at the elementary level. Plus they also said that capacity in the 60%s was acceptable. Previously I had heard that they considered under 80% to be under-enrolled. I think students being reassigned to Lewis will come from Annandale or Edison, which are also both crowded and both closer and an easier drive between the schools. Edison and Lewis are located on the same road and you could easily walk between them. |
Anonymous
So are those Cub run kids at Lees Corner going to Chantilly? I thought we’re trying to reduce enrollment at Chantilly. Same with Navy Island going to Franklin, are they moving to chantilly HS? |
Anonymous
But they have WSHS at such a high capacity, I feel like they'll need to address it somehow. Maybe moving some Hunt Valley kids to South County? But then they create a split feeder at Hunt Valley. I'll be watching for those May 5 meeting slides. |
Anonymous
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I could see a new split feeder at HV. Some of those neighborhoods close to Pohick Rd. Are roughly equidistant to Irving/WSHS and South County, but the bus ride to SC is probably easier on roads with less traffic. It might be hard to get the requisite 25%+ of students though without getting into parts of HV’s boundaries that really are closer to WS. |
Anonymous
The school board did not address the Sangster split feeder where one neighborhood goes to Irving and WSHS while the rest of the students go to Lake Braddock. Moving all of Sangster to LB might be enough to stave off rezoning WSHS. But on the note of Rolling Valley, those apartments inside the parkway that are marked to mive to Saratoga don't currently go to Lewis. Those students go to WSHS. Are they not currently zoned for WSHS? I think many of the Rolling Valley students outside the parkway also attend WSHS, although they are definitely zoned for Lewis. |
Anonymous
They really need to evaluate what they’d be doing to Shrevewood under this plan. It looks like they’re shifting all the apartment complexes off 29 and west of Hollywood Rd to Shrevewood. The presentation says that would add 119 students to Shrevewood and would likely turn it into a Title 1 school. Shrevewood is already hemorrhaging students to Lemon Road’s AAP center. The meeting notes don’t seem to reflect any impact to Shrevewood. |
Anonymous
They have floated a proposal to move Bren Mar Park ES back from Edison to Annandale. Hard to see them proposing to move more Edison kids to Lewis on top of that, and since they are including modular seats they say the BMP move would only put Annandale at 101%. See 4/25 presentation at 19-20. In fact, the under-enrollment at Lewis wouldn't be an issue, since it's still well over 60% capacity. But, given their repeated focus on the 60%-105% range, it seems likely they'll propose in May to move some kids out of West Springfield (112% in the latest CIP), unless they just decide to focus on ES and not MS or HS. Where they might propose to move them is a different question. |
Anonymous
The Sangster to Newington attendance island and Rolling Valley to Saratoga split feeder changes takes both Newington and Saratoga to capacity, so there is no longer elementary space for any Hunt Valley neighborhoods to move in that direction. Any high school changes would require a new split feeder. Will they need to make the capacity changes for WSHS from the other end of the zone, such as the Tiverton townhouses and adjacent neighborhood zoned to Keene Mill? That would also address Keene Mill overcrowding. Those neighborhoods, and Daventry, are the closest to Lewis of any WSHS neighborhoods, but far from Key and separated from Garfield by the church, ballfields, parks and retail space, and from Lewis and Key by the mixing bowl. Let's hope the Sangster and RV changes, combined possibly with moving the Sangster split feeder from Irving & WSHS to LBSS will be enough to prevent additional rezoning of WSHS. |
Anonymous
| I feel that if they were going to address the Sangster split feeder, they would have done it already. I don’t know if LB can take all of those students without ending up overcrowded itself + Sangster is the AAP center for Hunt Valley and Orange Hunt - which are some of the few remaining schools with NO LLIV. Now FCPS seemingly has no problem with giving some pyramids the short end of the stick on AAP centers and sending their students out of pyramid for AAP, but at least most students do now have a choice to do LLIV at their base schools. |
Anonymous
Lake Braddock is under capacity |