Where should the county move the Kent Gardens kids?
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Anonymous
I don’t think any of the KG kids would get moved to those schools really. Just to haycock. And some haycock kids go to lemon or chesterbrook. |
Anonymous
FS and Chesterbrook have more projected excess capacity than Haycock, Lemon Road, and Westgate. That’s clear from the presentation. It certainly wouldn’t be crazy, though, to move part of KG near Kirby to Haycock, and part of Haycock to Chesterbrook. Lemon Road and Westgate will have to handle more Tysons growth, especially Westgate, so moving KG kids there objectively seems like a bad idea. |
Anonymous
Not saying it isn’t true, but the projections for lemon road and west gate do not match this narrative. Those schools are projected to have less demand on capacity over the next 5 years. |
Anonymous
Yeah, they do. Five-year projections excluding modulars have Chesterbrook at 64% and FS at 82% vs 86% at each of Lemon Road and Westgate and 92% at Haycock. And the longer-term projections in the CIP still don’t factor in some of the Tysons growth that will feed into Westgate and to a lesser extent Lemon Road. |
Anonymous
FCPS appears to be approaching it as a base school and AAP boundary situation when the elephant in the room is FLI. Current in boundary French Immersion students could be getting Local Level iv at KG. FS transfer data has 23 to CR and 77 to Haycock. Transfer data has 33 into KG from Mclean pyramid schools. Marshall pyramid ES might be sending more to KG FLI since the bare minimum is 30. Actual higher than than Mclean or Langley pyramid schools? 37 other ES in multiple pyramids stretching from the far SE and SW corners of FX county and all points in between have students transferring into FLI at KG. |
Anonymous
They’ve acknowledged that feedback included adding a second French immersion program in FCPS. They’ve also said that would take years to develop. Retaining the FLI program at KG while looking at boundaries and out-of-boundary placements is responsive to the community feedback. There are some both within and outside the KG area who want to kill FLI entirely or move the program at KG to another school. There is no consensus, however, for doing so, nor is it necessary given the available capacity at other nearby schools to reduce the overcrowding at KG. |
Anonymous
| The other thing to take into account is all of the infill. A lot of "original" 1950s era houses in the KG zone are regularly torn down, and Church land is getting converted to residential. This also needs to be taken into account when the boundaries are discussed. Changing the boundaries to reflect the enrollment now is great, but we need to go further and estimate that some percentage of new houses will bring students in. It doesn't seem that FCPS connects those dots sometimes. |
Anonymous
| they added haycock to the study. |
Anonymous
This is ridiculous. Haycock does not have capacity to take more kids, it’s basically full and there is so much construction that will be adding to the population. Why did this come up at the last minute when only AAP was included before? Other schools have capacity or program changes can be made. Haycock can’t expand its boundaries. |
Anonymous
| Now they can move haycock students to chesterbrook. It’s very smart to include it and it was insane it wasn’t originally, which is why its inclusion was unanimous |
Anonymous
This was supposed to be about Kent Gardens. Why are you turning it into a broader boundary change? |
Anonymous
I’m guessing you are the same uninformed person who said the following up thread — “They should include Haycock. Given that Haycock is almost at 100% they could adjust boundaries with Haycock/Chesterbrook. It just didn't get enough votes? This is beyond stupid. Do they have any professionals?” |
Anonymous
They can move part of KG to Haycock and part of Haycock to Chesterbrook. It’s still part of a strategy to address overcrowding at KG and everyone stays at the same MS/HS. Not saying they will end up doing it but it at least creates another option. |
Anonymous
It is amusing this poster thinks that addressing overcrowding at one school doesn’t necessarily involve other schools. The McLean area is very unbalanced (talking about school populations but I guess also the residents…). |
Anonymous
DP, but the overcrowding at KG could be fully addressed without changing the Haycock boundaries. It’s just another option. |