
Board Member Dunne said at the last work session that every pyramid will be affected, and the consultant agreed. I don’t have any specifics or guesses for Woodson though. |
DP. Obviously everything is speculation because nothing has been formally revealed. That hasn't stopped Langley and West Springfield parents from speculating as to whether areas zoned for those schools may be redistricted to Herndon and Lewis, respectfully. With respect to the Timber Lane island, I'd say the main reasons why there isn't "more concern." 1. The Timber Lane island accounts from over half the FARMS population at Longfellow and McLean. Some don't believe the School Board would eliminate that diversity from Longfellow/McLean; rather, they believe if there's going to be another boundary change affecting Longfellow/McLean (the boundaries were just adjusted in 2021), it would be to move the Spring Hill attendance island to Cooper/Langley instead. 2. Timber Lane is a Title I school, so parents who are fine sending their kids to Timber Lane are more likely to be fine sending their kids to Jackson/Falls Church. Some might even prefer it since Falls Church will have been renovated, while McLean will have to wait for a new queue before its next renovation. In addition, some Timber Lane families sense that the rest of McLean sees them as the "poor kids," even when the single-family houses zoned to Timber Lane are in the $800K-$2M range. This is more of an issue at Longfellow, when kids from the different ES feeders are first coming together, than at McLean, but I've heard it can be tiresome. 3. Longfellow is not overcrowded, and the overcrowding at McLean is starting to abate. The freshman class this year is the smallest it's been for over five years. While there could be more kids from additional development closer to McLean (in Tysons, McLean, and near the WFC Metro), larger demographic trends will also kick in, which could mean fewer students. Is this really the time to change boundaries in that pyramid again, after the MS/HS boundaries were revised in 2021 and many of the ES boundaries were changed last year? |
Mantua is probably safe since it’s so close to Woodson. |
Woodson draws from two schools that are split feeders - Little Run and Oak View. In addition, Olde Creek, which feeds to Woodson, has an attendance island closer to Laurel Ridge (in the Robinson pyramid) than to Olde Creek. In theory, these are the types of situations they plan to address. Apart from that, the AAP center at Frost gets kids from the Annandale pyramid, so if they move those kids back to Poe it could impact Frost. |
I believe the apartments right across the street from Woodson may be zoned for Fairfax HS, and Fairfax Villa ES sure looks like an attendance island that should have been in FHS. FHS pyramid has dual superintendent though, Dr Reid and the Ffx City superintendent so maybe they don't touch it and instead ship Wakefield Forest and Canterbury Woods off to Annandale instead? Pure speculation |
The student transfer dashboard indicates that, in 2023-24, Glasgow had 97 transfers from Holmes and 27 from Poe, most presumably for AAP. Getting rid of the AAP center at Glasgow and keeping the AAP kids at their base schools would immediately appear to reduce the enrollment by roughly 125 kids. And this wouldn't require any change to the Justice boundaries, either. But Ricardy Anderson was very insistent on a boundary study and pushing Reid to say they'd look at making all the middle schools 6-8 schools, which seems logistically next to impossible. |
If those apartments are in Fairfax City, they have to attend Fairfax City schools, including Fairfax HS, by law. Fairfax Villa ES is not an attendance island. It used to go to Fairfax, but at some point the City of Fairfax asked FCPS to reduce the number of county students at Fairfax HS and Fairfax Villa got moved to Frost/Woodson. The moves created an attendance island zoned to Fairfax, but Woodson doesn't have an attendance island. |
FWIW in FCPS’s capacity projections for 2028-29 on the capacity dashboard, the only HS’s that are projected to be “in the red” and significantly over capacity are Woodson and WSHS. |
Can you show us where to find that dashboard please? |
Keep in mind that these projections include modular seats (but not trailers) when calculating a school's capacity. There's been some discussion as to whether they should try and get kids out of modulars, although they really haven't asked people at schools with modulars how they feel. |
https://www.fcps.edu/facilities-planning-future/facilities-and-membership-dashboards |
It’s a little convoluted but hopefully these instructions make sense. 1) go here: https://www.fcps.edu/facilities-planning-future/facilities-and-membership-dashboards and tap on the “Capacity overview …” link 2) tap on capacity utilization maps 3) change school level to HS 4) scroll down on the page until you see the second map for 28-29 projected capacity (it is my understanding this is the projection given the current maps with no changes/redistricting) WSHS they are projecting at 117% and Woodson at 108%. The yellows are around 100% plus or minus a few and the blue are under capacity. |
Fairfax HS is its own city, so none of those schools should be touched, and no other schools should be rezoned into Fairfax HS. |
West Springfield HS has zero modulars and empty classroom space. The projections for WSHS are wildly inaccurate and inflated. |
WSHS is using inaccurate inflated data. |