FCPS Boundary Review Updates

[Anonymous]

Interesting -- Looks like the approval process has now moved to Jan-Feb 2026, so changes won't go into effect till Aug 2026 at the earliest

[Anonymous]

Glad to see the 'Minimize Disruptions' and 'Promote Long-Term Sustainability' callouts...

[Anonymous]

Yeah the nuclear poster was a troll. I feel like they came on strong with the attendance islands and then kind of backed off.

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Anonymous wrote:According to the website, materials will be posted the following business day so tomorrow (Tuesday) probably late afternoon

It's going to get VERY interesting if they propose to move people out of Chantilly and West Springfield but leave Langley untouched. Once again FCPS will have talked a good game about equity, and then turned around and screwed the middle class while favoring the wealthiest.

West Springfield is currently at 112% capacity and expected to go to 120% capacity by 2029-2030.

Chantilly is currently at 125% capacity if you don’t include modulars and expected to be at 118% capacity without modulars by 2029-2030.

Langley is currently at 94% capacity and expected to be at 96% capacity by 2029-2030.

How is there even a comparison? It makes sense to lower the numbers of students at over capacity schools. It doesn’t make sense to unnecessarily rezone kids from an under capacity school.

Sure it does, if kids live closer to a school that has even more extra capacity. Why should others pay to bus your kids longer distances than necessary? Also, your numbers for Langley don't include the additional kids from closer-in Tysons they're going to move to Langley.

And why should we bother moving kids out of "over capacity" schools - and capacity should take the modular seats that cost millions to install into account - now if those schools are expected to see declines in enrollment?

But let's see what they come up with today. If they propose to move kids out of Chantilly and West Springfield, with their compact boundaries, while leaving Langley with its far-flung boundaries untouched, it will be a political disaster for the Democrats in Sully and Springfield.

“Political disaster”? Literal LOL.

Sully and Springfield are already the two most conservative magisterial districts in Fairfax. Goodbye, Dixit and Anderson if they screw the middle class while giving the Langley rich another pass.

As someone who lives in WSHS area and whose kid could get moved, my anger about all this will not be impacted by what they do to Langley. I will be angry either way.

Not me. We live close to our current schools and they may rezone us anyway, so if they are going to continue busing Langley kids 10 miles while upending our kids lives in furtherance of unclear goals I will be doubly pissed.

Well, I think you’ve just outed yourself as a big ol hypocrite. It’s gotta be tough having that much cognitive dissonance.

Nothing hypocritical about it at all. If county-wide boundary changes are really needed like they're claiming they should go all in and not just look for soft targets while letting the rich people who'd make the biggest stink off the hook again.

Class warfare on your neighbors. Stay classy, hypocrite.

You don't know what hypocrisy means. I want the same thing for you as FCPS appears to want for me, and they have discretion to do so under their policy since cutting down on transportation times and costs gets just as much prominence as addressing a capacity deficit.

Plus you have money to hire the lawyers to challenge them. Not all of us do.

They know that, and that's why you get left out of boundary studies while others are not so fortunate.

To recap your view is if something bad has to happen to me i hope it happens to everyone else too (specifically Langley). You can use the transportation cost reasons all you want but that was debunked over and over. The cost to save 2-9 minutes each way for a few buses isn’t adding up to any amount of savings.

The problem with how big Herndon was built out it does not match capacity of Herndon MS. There is not space to move an entire elementary into that pyramid. Especially since it appears they are moving part of the very over crowded Coates to Herndon ES which feeds into Herndon Ms and Herndon HS

Or, stated differently, if some are to benefit from the advantages of county-wide redistricting, it would be unfair to deprive Langley families of that same opportunity.

In the case of students in western Great Falls, the shorter commutes to Herndon and potential transportation savings were never "debunked" simply because you chose to downplay them ad nauseam on this thread. You're confusing the frequency of your objections with the quality of your argument.

The mismatch of MS capacity with HS capacity isn't unique to Herndon. Even so, HMS is also projected to be well under capacity through 2029. And moving Coates kids who already are zoned to HMS/HHS to HES doesn't impact the enrollment at HMS or HHS. It only changes the ES assignment.

Look forward to your continuing to advocate on behalf of everyone who'd rather stay put. After all, if you can successfully advocate on Langley's behalf here, advocating on behalf of the rest of us who actually live close to our current schools ought to be a slam dunk.

You’re responding to a different poster. You also sound like a pretty awful person.

Oh, so you wouldn't advocate on anyone else's behalf but your own, but you take issues with others expecting Langley to be subject to the same scrutiny as other areas? Got it.

Well, if you can’t read well enough to understand my earlier post where I said I will continue to advocate for no boundary changes for anyone, then you are a lost cause. I couldn’t have stated it more clearly.

Good luck living your petty life.

Different poster here. I'm in WSHS area and our area appreciates your support.

Speak for yourself, not for our area.

Let me guess, you are the BRAC member who is on record being for boundary changes for others, but not for her own kids.

Nope. Once again, you people are not grasping that many support overdue boundary changes.

+1. New poster here.

Be careful what you wish for. Turns out that the school board is about to go nuclear with the boundaries.

Let’s see how well this ages. A few weeks ago the flood of “there will be a pause announced after spring break” posts did not age well.

Sure. Let’s put a pin in this. Make sure to follow up whether you are right or wrong, and I’ll do the same. Deal?

Now we just gotta wait for those night worm BRAC members to wake up.

Did not age well. You are a troll.

[Anonymous]

Looks like Irving/WSHS will be brought under capacity by moving kids to South County. If I’m reading the map correctly, it will create a split feeder out of Hunt Valley, with most kids remaining at Irving/WS and a smaller proportion to SC.

[Anonymous]

Waiting to hear on the grandfathering aspect for the 400+ HSers that are proposed to move...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thank you! I can now stop refreshing!

Looks like they are proposing moving kids from Centreville and Westfield to Southlakes

They would move 115 kids from Centreville to Westfield and 121 from Westfield to South Lakes.

[Anonymous]

I wish they’d post the comprehensive pyramid flows because it seems like they “fixed” a lot of boundaries by creating some really bizarre split feeder patterns that are equally bad as what currently exists, if not worse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thank you! I can now stop refreshing!

Looks like they are proposing moving kids from Centreville and Westfield to Southlakes

Not sure I understand your Centreville part. Looks like they are sending some/much of the Floris area that was assigned to South Lakes in 2008 back to Westfield. The maps are hard to read with some of the roads not clear.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Thank you! I can now stop refreshing!

Looks like they are proposing moving kids from Centreville and Westfield to Southlakes

They would move 115 kids from Centreville to Westfield and 121 from Westfield to South Lakes.

Way more disruption...

[Anonymous]

Does look like the kids that they suggested move from Oak Hill to Fox Mill in the last set of maps from Westfield to Oakton.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wish they’d post the comprehensive pyramid flows because it seems like they “fixed” a lot of boundaries by creating some really bizarre split feeder patterns that are equally bad as what currently exists, if not worse.

One I notice is the group that currently goes to Oak Hill/Carson/Westfield is now suggested to Fox Mill/Carson?/Oakton. Doesn't Fox Mill go to South Lakes?

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Anonymous wrote:Does look like the kids that they suggested move from Oak Hill to Fox Mill in the last set of maps from Westfield to Oakton.

That’s my neighborhood. They are moving us to South Lakes. The little section you see going to Oakton from Chantilly is a a few streets in Chantilly Highlands, who I know are not going to be happy.

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Anonymous wrote:Thank you! I can now stop refreshing!

Looks like they are proposing moving kids from Centreville and Westfield to Southlakes

Not sure I understand your Centreville part. Looks like they are sending some/much of the Floris area that was assigned to South Lakes in 2008 back to Westfield. The maps are hard to read with some of the roads not clear.

I think it's actually they are proposing to move more of Floris from Westfield to South Lakes. But, yes, the maps are hard to read!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wish they’d post the comprehensive pyramid flows because it seems like they “fixed” a lot of boundaries by creating some really bizarre split feeder patterns that are equally bad as what currently exists, if not worse.

Yes, there are some bizarre feeder patterns with the middle schools. Some of that could be fixed with the Western HS but … that’s a pipe dream.