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

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Anonymous wrote:Navy mommies are outdoing the Rios tonight. God forbid their first grader gets moved to Chantilly from Oakton. Half the distance and a fairly equal school. Where is the humanity??? Welp!

Did they freak out about their little Franklin Farm island? That gets moved in all three scenarios (I agree that it should move, it's dumb).

I believe Lees Corner and Navy parents rightfully called out the Chief of staff for claiming they had informed everyone for the last 18 months about these changes which is entirely untrue. These maps were introduced on Tuesday.

I wasn’t at the meeting and have no idea what other Navy parents are saying, but for the past however many months we were given the impression that the only group they were focusing on was that Navy island (FF). Now every, single Navy household is personally affected by one of these scenarios. I don’t care one bit if my kid goes to Chantilly. I do care if my child has to drive past Navy to go to a Waples Mill for 6th grade, which is twice the distance and based on the map would split him from 95% of his friends.

I hear you. You are probably referring to Scenario 1 which moves some Navy families to Waples Mill. Luckily, it sounds like Scenarios 1&3 will be canned. At the meeting on Tuesday and last night, most groups agreed Scenario 2 was the lesser of the evils. In fact, the moderator said Scenario 2 was designed to be more conservative and move kids less. My guess is they will revise it after the feedback. They said that’s why they are doing these meetings. New maps will come out in May.

Also, Scenarios 1&3 had Lees Corner Elementary, which currently goes to Chantilly HS and some can even walk, moving to Westfield HS which is so far down 50 it’s ridiculous.

All of this leads me to believe they will not proceed with either of these scenarios.

While I agree moving kids that can walk to school is ridiculous, I am hoping you can now appreciate what the kids at Floris, Coates and McNair have had to deal with commuting to Westfield for the past 20 years.

[Anonymous]

Honestly, they should just set the boundaries for Skyview and let the rest sort out. Westfield will still have plenty of kids. Chantilly will be smaller.
They may need to do something about Centreville overcrowding and send some of those kids to Westfield.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Honestly, they should just set the boundaries for Skyview and let the rest sort out. Westfield will still have plenty of kids. Chantilly will be smaller.
They may need to do something about Centreville overcrowding and send some of those kids to Westfield.

PP here.
I meant that Chantilly will be less crowded--not smaller than Westfield.

It does seem to me that moving those Cub Run kids who attend Chantilly to Westfield might be reasonable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Honestly, they should just set the boundaries for Skyview and let the rest sort out. Westfield will still have plenty of kids. Chantilly will be smaller.
They may need to do something about Centreville overcrowding and send some of those kids to Westfield.

PP here.
I meant that Chantilly will be less crowded--not smaller than Westfield.

It does seem to me that moving those Cub Run kids who attend Chantilly to Westfield might be reasonable.

It’s annoying that they only show the utilization percentages and not the estimated enrollment numbers. If I multiply the utilization with the capacity, I get the following under scenario 2:

Westfield @ 82% is 2308
Chantilly @ 99% (no modular) is 2307
Centreville @ 96% (no mod) is 1865
Skyview @ 89% is 1780
South Lakes @ 83% is 2032
Oakton @ 103% is 2721

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Honestly, they should just set the boundaries for Skyview and let the rest sort out. Westfield will still have plenty of kids. Chantilly will be smaller.
They may need to do something about Centreville overcrowding and send some of those kids to Westfield.

PP here.
I meant that Chantilly will be less crowded--not smaller than Westfield.

It does seem to me that moving those Cub Run kids who attend Chantilly to Westfield might be reasonable.

It’s annoying that they only show the utilization percentages and not the estimated enrollment numbers. If I multiply the utilization with the capacity, I get the following under scenario 2:

Westfield @ 82% is 2308
Chantilly @ 99% (no modular) is 2307
Centreville @ 96% (no mod) is 1865
Skyview @ 89% is 1780
South Lakes @ 83% is 2032
Oakton @ 103% is 2721

If that’s how it works out it’s obvious part of Oakton should move to South Lakes.

[Anonymous]

It doesn't make sense to me to leave so many kids at Oakton when there are open seats at much closer high schools.

[Anonymous]

Its also obvious that the Centreville renovation should be scaled way back and only include modest updates.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Honestly, they should just set the boundaries for Skyview and let the rest sort out. Westfield will still have plenty of kids. Chantilly will be smaller.
They may need to do something about Centreville overcrowding and send some of those kids to Westfield.

PP here.
I meant that Chantilly will be less crowded--not smaller than Westfield.

It does seem to me that moving those Cub Run kids who attend Chantilly to Westfield might be reasonable.

The dividing line here should be Route 28, not Walney Road. Moving the kids in the small sliver in between from Chantilly to Westfields is crazy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Navy mommies are outdoing the Rios tonight. God forbid their first grader gets moved to Chantilly from Oakton. Half the distance and a fairly equal school. Where is the humanity??? Welp!

Did they freak out about their little Franklin Farm island? That gets moved in all three scenarios (I agree that it should move, it's dumb).

I believe Lees Corner and Navy parents rightfully called out the Chief of staff for claiming they had informed everyone for the last 18 months about these changes which is entirely untrue. These maps were introduced on Tuesday.

I wasn’t at the meeting and have no idea what other Navy parents are saying, but for the past however many months we were given the impression that the only group they were focusing on was that Navy island (FF). Now every, single Navy household is personally affected by one of these scenarios. I don’t care one bit if my kid goes to Chantilly. I do care if my child has to drive past Navy to go to a Waples Mill for 6th grade, which is twice the distance and based on the map would split him from 95% of his friends.

I hear you. You are probably referring to Scenario 1 which moves some Navy families to Waples Mill. Luckily, it sounds like Scenarios 1&3 will be canned. At the meeting on Tuesday and last night, most groups agreed Scenario 2 was the lesser of the evils. In fact, the moderator said Scenario 2 was designed to be more conservative and move kids less. My guess is they will revise it after the feedback. They said that’s why they are doing these meetings. New maps will come out in May.

Also, Scenarios 1&3 had Lees Corner Elementary, which currently goes to Chantilly HS and some can even walk, moving to Westfield HS which is so far down 50 it’s ridiculous.

All of this leads me to believe they will not proceed with either of these scenarios.

While I agree moving kids that can walk to school is ridiculous, I am hoping you can now appreciate what the kids at Floris, Coates and McNair have had to deal with commuting to Westfield for the past 20 years.

Someone has to go there. Those areas are about the same distance as some areas in Centreville they are proposing to move now.
This is the problem with building a school on "available land we found" that's not really near any neighborhoods.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Honestly, they should just set the boundaries for Skyview and let the rest sort out. Westfield will still have plenty of kids. Chantilly will be smaller.
They may need to do something about Centreville overcrowding and send some of those kids to Westfield.

PP here.
I meant that Chantilly will be less crowded--not smaller than Westfield.

It does seem to me that moving those Cub Run kids who attend Chantilly to Westfield might be reasonable.

The dividing line here should be Route 28, not Walney Road. Moving the kids in the small sliver in between from Chantilly to Westfields is crazy.

Why is it crazy? That area is one of the closest to Westfield HS that's not already zoned there (no S in Westfield BTW-where do you live where you don't know the name of the schools?)

[Anonymous]

Those kids are zoned to Cub Run. Most of Cub Run goes to Westfield already. It makes sense to move those kids to fill seats at Westfield and make space at CHS. That's one of the few sensible suggestions in the scenarios.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Honestly, they should just set the boundaries for Skyview and let the rest sort out. Westfield will still have plenty of kids. Chantilly will be smaller.
They may need to do something about Centreville overcrowding and send some of those kids to Westfield.

PP here.
I meant that Chantilly will be less crowded--not smaller than Westfield.

It does seem to me that moving those Cub Run kids who attend Chantilly to Westfield might be reasonable.

It’s annoying that they only show the utilization percentages and not the estimated enrollment numbers. If I multiply the utilization with the capacity, I get the following under scenario 2:

Westfield @ 82% is 2308
Chantilly @ 99% (no modular) is 2307
Centreville @ 96% (no mod) is 1865
Skyview @ 89% is 1780
South Lakes @ 83% is 2032
Oakton @ 103% is 2721

If that’s how it works out it’s obvious part of Oakton should move to South Lakes.

Agree. If they want AP, they can pupil place to Skyview or Westfield (Chantilly will be full).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Those kids are zoned to Cub Run. Most of Cub Run goes to Westfield already. It makes sense to move those kids to fill seats at Westfield and make space at CHS. That's one of the few sensible suggestions in the scenarios.

I agree.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Honestly, they should just set the boundaries for Skyview and let the rest sort out. Westfield will still have plenty of kids. Chantilly will be smaller.
They may need to do something about Centreville overcrowding and send some of those kids to Westfield.

PP here.
I meant that Chantilly will be less crowded--not smaller than Westfield.

It does seem to me that moving those Cub Run kids who attend Chantilly to Westfield might be reasonable.

The dividing line here should be Route 28, not Walney Road. Moving the kids in the small sliver in between from Chantilly to Westfields is crazy.

DP. Most of Cub Run is not in Chantilly pyramid. Moving that sliver to Stone and Westfield aligns the school.

[Anonymous]

Its pretty clear that what makes sense logically is to move the Franklin Farm area zoned for Oakton over to South Lakes.

Will it happen? Of course not. Only neighborhoods without political clout are getting moved.