FCPS Boundary Review Updates

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Anonymous wrote:Looks like the slides are up: https://www.fcps.edu/sites/default/files/5-5-2025SuperintendentBoundaryReviewAdvisoryCommitteePresentation.pdf

Interesting that instead of starting new, they used the prior fixes from the other two meetings.

And yes, this just goes further to confirm that they are going to tinker around the edges and not move many kids.

Well I guess all the parents on freaking out about their high schoolers can just calm the F down.

-Carson mom who is still in shock that they didn't touch our school (except that tiny chunk of Chantilly Highlands they are now sending to Oakton)

High schools where kids may be reassigned to other schools possibly without grandfathering under Thru Consulting proposals:

Centreville
Chantilly
Edison
Fairfax
Lake Braddock
Marshall
McLean
Mount Vernon
South County
Westfield
West Potomac
West Springfield
Woodson

School with by far the longest commutes where no kids would be reassigned under Thru Consulting proposals:

Langley

The courage of Dr. Reid and the School Board is truly impressive, lol.

Check out sending a portion of Chantilly Highlands kids to Oakton. Terrible. And,you cannot even tell which streets in a compact neighborhood that they are sending.
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[Anonymous]

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

What about that person last fall with the “leaked maps”

The leaked map person got the elementary school correct (Hunt Valley) but the high school wrong (originally thought to be IB Lewis, but ended up AP South County)

My feeling is that what she originally leaked was accurate, but the overwhelming parent pushback got the original plan canned and redirected to SoCo.

FCPS is doing a trenendous disservice to Lewis for insisting upon kerping that school IB instead of switching it to AP. They are also shortchanging those families by not renovating the school to make it comparable to every other FCPS high school in the surrounding area.

I wonder if they realized they actually should reassess the IB to AP suggestion that many have provided. If so, they would have to enact it and let it level out a few years before reassessing capacities. I guess that falls under their renewed “assessment every 5 years”

[Anonymous]

School with by far the longest commutes where no kids would be reassigned under Thru Consulting proposals:

Sending a neighborhood with less than a 3 mile commute to a school that is more than 10 miles is being reassigned. And, it is not needed.

[Anonymous]

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School with by far the longest commutes where no kids would be reassigned under Thru Consulting proposals:

Sending a neighborhood with currently less than a 3 mile commute to a school that is more than 10 miles is being reassigned. And, it is not needed.

Two issues with this recommendation:
Splitting a tight knit neighborhood
Increasing commute

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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

This has been the case for a while now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looks like the slides are up: https://www.fcps.edu/sites/default/files/5-5-2025SuperintendentBoundaryReviewAdvisoryCommitteePresentation.pdf

Interesting that instead of starting new, they used the prior fixes from the other two meetings.

And yes, this just goes further to confirm that they are going to tinker around the edges and not move many kids.

Well I guess all the parents on freaking out about their high schoolers can just calm the F down.

-Carson mom who is still in shock that they didn't touch our school (except that tiny chunk of Chantilly Highlands they are now sending to Oakton)

High schools where kids may be reassigned to other schools possibly without grandfathering under Thru Consulting proposals:

Centreville
Chantilly
Edison
Fairfax
Lake Braddock
Marshall
McLean
Mount Vernon
South County
Westfield
West Potomac
West Springfield
Woodson

School with by far the longest commutes where no kids would be reassigned under Thru Consulting proposals:

Langley

The courage of Dr. Reid and the School Board is truly impressive, lol.

Check out sending a portion of Chantilly Highlands kids to Oakton. Terrible. And,you cannot even tell which streets in a compact neighborhood that they are sending.
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That's ridiculous. How stupid.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Also, the letter says they calculated capacity from the annual CIP. Annual CIP has Woodson and Edison projected to be overcapacity in a few years.... am I missing something? If enrollment changes by a year from now and schools are no longer over capacity, would they adjust?

CIP 2029-2030 won’t be accurate to look at now. They moved a chunk of Holmes MS from Edison to Annandale during the split feeder. They also removed some from Woodson to Fairfax HS during the attendance islands. So they are now at better capacity.

The Edison feeder that they propose to move to Annandale (Bren Mar Park ES) is the same feeder that got moved from Annandale to Edison in 2011. They may like not being the only Holmes feeder that goes to Edison rather than Annandale, but that area sure gets jerked around.

Was the net proposed movement between Woodson and Fairfax a reduction in the Woodson enrollment? It wasn't clear because the Frost numbers seemed to be inconsistent with the Woodson numbers and the Johnson numbers inconsistent with the Fairfax numbers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Also, the letter says they calculated capacity from the annual CIP. Annual CIP has Woodson and Edison projected to be overcapacity in a few years.... am I missing something? If enrollment changes by a year from now and schools are no longer over capacity, would they adjust?

CIP 2029-2030 won’t be accurate to look at now. They moved a chunk of Holmes MS from Edison to Annandale during the split feeder. They also removed some from Woodson to Fairfax HS during the attendance islands. So they are now at better capacity.

The Edison feeder that they propose to move to Annandale (Bren Mar Park ES) is the same feeder that got moved from Annandale to Edison in 2011. They may like not being the only Holmes feeder that goes to Edison rather than Annandale, but that area sure gets jerked around.

Was the net proposed movement between Woodson and Fairfax a reduction in the Woodson enrollment? It wasn't clear because the Frost numbers seemed to be inconsistent with the Woodson numbers and the Johnson numbers inconsistent with the Fairfax numbers.

Yeah, Woodson went from like 108 to 100% with the Fairfax City bridging.

[Anonymous]

Looking at some of these proposed changes it’s really not clear that the juice is worth the squeeze. Moving 100 kids so you take the capacity down 5 or 6 percent? I don’t think it’s worth that given what it will do to kids who will lose all their friends given they aren’t planning much if any grandfathering.

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If I’m reading this correctly, no changes to Langley? Just the poorer and middle class schools?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If I’m reading this correctly, no changes to Langley? Just the poorer and middle class schools?

Why would Langley need to change at this point? Their capacity is fine. Herndon’s is fine too. Yes, parts of Forestville ES are slightly closer to Herndon than to Langley, but they’re still not exactly *close*, and those far flung areas have to go to school somewhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Looking at some of these proposed changes it’s really not clear that the juice is worth the squeeze. Moving 100 kids so you take the capacity down 5 or 6 percent? I don’t think it’s worth that given what it will do to kids who will lose all their friends given they aren’t planning much if any grandfathering.

Especially the McLean/Longfellow/Timber Lane adjustments where they generate even more split feeders to connect an attendance island/split feeder.

[Anonymous]

Does the Chantilly/Oakton change take Stone Heather Dr. too? I can't make it out on the map.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looking at some of these proposed changes it’s really not clear that the juice is worth the squeeze. Moving 100 kids so you take the capacity down 5 or 6 percent? I don’t think it’s worth that given what it will do to kids who will lose all their friends given they aren’t planning much if any grandfathering.

Especially the McLean/Longfellow/Timber Lane adjustments where they generate even more split feeders to connect an attendance island/split feeder.

Or the Irving/West Springfield changes. Moving 90 kids and creating a new ES split feeder so you can drop MS and HS enrollment slightly? That doesn’t make a ton of sense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does the Chantilly/Oakton change take Stone Heather Dr. too? I can't make it out on the map.

To me, it looks Stone Heather Dr but not Stone Heather Ct