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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Link to scenarios: https://fcpswesternboundary.org/

Why cannot they provide maps with roads that you can see? This looks like a convoluted mess. They could have also listed school changes so we could understand.

But, when you look at the team which created this, it kind of explains the mess.

Thanks to the person who posted the link. i was looking at a more confusing map. But, this is still a mess.

[Anonymous]

So those Navy people who supported "rooted in Oakton" get moved to Chantilly in Option 3. Gee take Lees' Corner out of Chantilly and put Navy in? Really?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Link to scenarios: https://fcpswesternboundary.org/

Why cannot they provide maps with roads that you can see? This looks like a convoluted mess. They could have also listed school changes so we could understand.

But, when you look at the team which created this, it kind of explains the mess.

The road names populate as you zoom in. I do prefer the interface from the comprehensive review where you could see the impacts to capacity for all three scenarios at the same time.

[Anonymous]

So, they are going to take a portion of the Franklin Farm kids who currently go to Oak Hill and send them to Lee's Corner, while leaving another portion of them at Oak Hill. This makes absolutely no sense at all. They are the same neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

2 scenarios pick up Lees Corner and send them over to Westfield, my goodness.

[Anonymous]

Why are they moving kids who live in Centreville from Centreville (underenrolled) to Chantilly (overenrolled) in Scenario 1?

[Anonymous]

I guess I'm stupid. So the striped areas are zoned to new high schools?

[Anonymous]

Two of the scenarios leave Westfield just as crowded as it is now, even though there is a ton of new construction in the area.

I thought one of the purposes of buying Skyview was to relieve overcrowding in the area?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I guess I'm stupid. So the striped areas are zoned to new high schools?

Yes. It’s a different presentation style that makes it much harder to discern the impact on current boundaries.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Two of the scenarios leave Westfield just as crowded as it is now, even though there is a ton of new construction in the area.

I thought one of the purposes of buying Skyview was to relieve overcrowding in the area?

I don't understand moving kids out of Centreville to Westfield to keep Westfield's numbers at 2800 and reduce Centreville's down to 1800.

[Anonymous]

Westfield's capacity is 2815 with modulars. It is not overcrowded currently and none of the options make it more crowed. What would be dumb is to drop a large building to 82% capacity (approx 2300 students) when it can hold much more than the surrounding schools. Chantilly is the school that's way overcrowded.

[Anonymous]

Scenario 1 is the only version that actually serves the original purpose of adding another HS in the area (reducing overcrowding at CHS and Westfield). It also has the most logical boundaries for Skyview.

Since that scenario makes the most logical sense, almost certainly, the current FCPS leadership will opt for a different option.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Westfield's capacity is 2815 with modulars. It is not overcrowded currently and none of the options make it more crowed. What would be dumb is to drop a large building to 82% capacity (approx 2300 students) when it can hold much more than the surrounding schools. Chantilly is the school that's way overcrowded.

This has been discussed here ad nauseum. Westfield is currently overcrowded in real life (regardless of what FCPS claims) and has a ton of new housing being built in the area. The common areas were not built for 2800 students. 2800 students is far above what FCPS says the "ideal" HS populatino would be.

They need to reduce the numbers down to leave space for the new students the new housing will bring, or everyone will be back here arguing about boundaries again in two years when it has 3000+ kids.

[Anonymous]

Thinking Scenario 2 is where it'll land, simply because they openly state it's the least disruptive of the 3 and they'll probably get the least pushback from the fewest groups of people. 1 and 3 open up new fights the board probably isn't prepared for.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thinking Scenario 2 is where it'll land, simply because they openly state it's the least disruptive of the 3 and they'll probably get the least pushback from the fewest groups of people. 1 and 3 open up new fights the board probably isn't prepared for.

It moves a lot of kids out of CVHS to a much further away HS. More of a lower income/middle class area so maybe FCPS is hoping they don't mobilize like the Rooted in Oakton people.