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

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SLHS would not lose that many kids, it would still be in the 90% capacity.

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Anonymous wrote:SLHS would not lose that many kids, it would still be in the 90% capacity.

There a neighborhoods within 2 miles of SL districted to Madison High. If meren needs to fill SL, she should ask boundary folks to explore that.

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Anonymous wrote:SLHS would not lose that many kids, it would still be in the 90% capacity.

They would lose around 500 bringing them to 83%

Fox Mill and part of Floris.

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Anonymous wrote:SLHS would not lose that many kids, it would still be in the 90% capacity.

There a neighborhoods within 2 miles of SL districted to Madison High. If meren needs to fill SL, she should ask boundary folks to explore that.

They just expanded Madison to 2500 seats. It would be very stupid to pull kids out of a school they just expanded.

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Anonymous wrote:SLHS would not lose that many kids, it would still be in the 90% capacity.

There a neighborhoods within 2 miles of SL districted to Madison High. If meren needs to fill SL, she should ask boundary folks to explore that.

They just expanded Madison to 2500 seats. It would be very stupid to pull kids out of a school they just expanded.

Madison can absorb some of Oakton and the people who live really close to SouthLakes (within 2 miles) can be moved so that Foxmill can go to Skyview. I’m not sure why Madison is untouchable here if every other school is on the table.

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Anonymous wrote:fyi, skyview teachers have been phone calling parents of carson parents to pursuade them to go to skyview. I heard that from a carson parent who's kid failed to get into TJ. I guess skyview did not get as many opt-in students.

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Anonymous wrote:800 students enrolled at Skyview for the fall, that's the number they just put out.

Sounds like barely enough to open, but School Board members are going to get slammed over this mess next year.

Only two things can happen:

1. Skyview will have to cut back even further on what it can offer to such a small group of students; or

2. The overhead and cost per student at Skyview will be through the roof compared to other high schools.

This Superintendent and School Board have made such a mess of FCPS.

And this is 800 students that they've enlisted as they've been recruiting from the whole county. This is not kids opting in from only the 5 local high schools.

They had 650 from the 5 local schools, 400 of those were 9th graders. They will have zero issues getting larger classes once the boundaries are set. I am impressed that they have the numbers that they do given that it is going to start with no sports, smaller things like ban and marching band, and fewer electives due to the student body size. If anything, I think the fact that 400 9th graders opted in fromt he 5 local schools is amazing.

Oh please. I have an 8th grader at Carson and neither she nor any of her friends have heard from Skyview teachers. Give me a break.

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Anonymous wrote:fyi, skyview teachers have been phone calling parents of carson parents to pursuade them to go to skyview. I heard that from a carson parent who's kid failed to get into TJ. I guess skyview did not get as many opt-in students.

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Anonymous wrote:800 students enrolled at Skyview for the fall, that's the number they just put out.

Sounds like barely enough to open, but School Board members are going to get slammed over this mess next year.

Only two things can happen:

1. Skyview will have to cut back even further on what it can offer to such a small group of students; or

2. The overhead and cost per student at Skyview will be through the roof compared to other high schools.

This Superintendent and School Board have made such a mess of FCPS.

And this is 800 students that they've enlisted as they've been recruiting from the whole county. This is not kids opting in from only the 5 local high schools.

They had 650 from the 5 local schools, 400 of those were 9th graders. They will have zero issues getting larger classes once the boundaries are set. I am impressed that they have the numbers that they do given that it is going to start with no sports, smaller things like ban and marching band, and fewer electives due to the student body size. If anything, I think the fact that 400 9th graders opted in fromt he 5 local schools is amazing.

I think that you are wrong about that. We are at Carson. My kid is an 8th grader who opted in in AAP. He has had several classes where the teacher polled the kids, about half the kids in each of his classes said they were going to Skyview. I have no doubt that they were reaching out to kids who applied to TJ and were waitlisted or declined, they may have decided to not opt in because they thought they were going to TJ. The main group of kids who he knew who were not opting in were kids headed to Oakton.

The 9th grade gatherings have been very, very full at Skyview. The 10th grade is smaller but the 800 number if larger then the one I heard at the last Skyview meeting, which was 650.

Navy & Waples kids make up a large portion of AAP and those kids are zoned to Oakton.

(Nice try though)

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Anonymous wrote:SLHS would not lose that many kids, it would still be in the 90% capacity.

There a neighborhoods within 2 miles of SL districted to Madison High. If meren needs to fill SL, she should ask boundary folks to explore that.

They just expanded Madison to 2500 seats. It would be very stupid to pull kids out of a school they just expanded.

Madison can absorb some of Oakton and the people who live really close to SouthLakes (within 2 miles) can be moved so that Foxmill can go to Skyview. I’m not sure why Madison is untouchable here if every other school is on the table.

Look at the boundaries and tell us what part of Oakton Madison is supposed to absorb without creating even weirder boundaries. Madison isn’t in western Fairfax and wasn’t part of the five pyramids included in the study for good reason. You’re just pulling stuff out of thin air now.

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Anonymous wrote:SLHS would not lose that many kids, it would still be in the 90% capacity.

They would lose around 500 bringing them to 83%

Fox Mill and part of Floris.

This is true. And I predict both SLHS and Westfield will end up around that range.

Herndon is at 77% and nobody complains about it.

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Anonymous wrote:SLHS would not lose that many kids, it would still be in the 90% capacity.

There a neighborhoods within 2 miles of SL districted to Madison High. If meren needs to fill SL, she should ask boundary folks to explore that.

They just expanded Madison to 2500 seats. It would be very stupid to pull kids out of a school they just expanded.

Madison can absorb some of Oakton and the people who live really close to SouthLakes (within 2 miles) can be moved so that Foxmill can go to Skyview. I’m not sure why Madison is untouchable here if every other school is on the table.

Look at the boundaries and tell us what part of Oakton Madison is supposed to absorb without creating even weirder boundaries. Madison isn’t in western Fairfax and wasn’t part of the five pyramids included in the study for good reason. You’re just pulling stuff out of thin air now.

Madison high school isn’t in western fairfax, but several of its neighborhoods are. Have you ever seen a map? It’s been considered in every boundary review for South Lakes since the 80s.

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Anonymous wrote:It is unfair of Meren to keep FM at SL for no other reason than to prop up test scores.

Who will move into South Lakes? Was that in any scenario?

No one would need to move into Oakton if they took Crossfield out--and there is new construction coming.

This. Why isn’t anyone moving to SL??

Why would anyone need to? There is already all of Hughes feeding into it and plenty of new construction.

[Anonymous]

They said they have almost 800 signed up for skyview. The enrollment is fine.

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Anonymous wrote:Quick summary of it, but they're picking it back up in late afternoon. Again, my best attempt at a summary.

• Reid wants to add another cycle of reviews
o Wants to come back with 3 scenarios again in May
o Another cycle of review again after that
o Move the board vote from June to July
o Wants to shift the focus to a feeder issue and HS focus, and don’t touch the elementary schools unless there is a feeder pattern issue until the next 5 year review
• Continuing to revise the 3 scenarios that exist, not create brand new ones
• 2,000 students is the target, not 2,500
• Consensus from the board members is the elementary schools need to be off the table in this review
• Reid confirmed they’re not going to touch elementary schools in future revisions
• 800 students are signed up for the Fall, and the board seemed pretty pleased with that
• Meren’s pissed about all of it. Specifically referenced the Fox Mill ES boundary changes.
• Some talk on future uses of the pool, trainings/certifications/etc.

Thanks for this. So nobody said about Lees Corner to Westfield scenario?

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Anonymous wrote:SLHS would not lose that many kids, it would still be in the 90% capacity.

There a neighborhoods within 2 miles of SL districted to Madison High. If meren needs to fill SL, she should ask boundary folks to explore that.

They just expanded Madison to 2500 seats. It would be very stupid to pull kids out of a school they just expanded.

Madison can absorb some of Oakton and the people who live really close to SouthLakes (within 2 miles) can be moved so that Foxmill can go to Skyview. I’m not sure why Madison is untouchable here if every other school is on the table.

Look at the boundaries and tell us what part of Oakton Madison is supposed to absorb without creating even weirder boundaries. Madison isn’t in western Fairfax and wasn’t part of the five pyramids included in the study for good reason. You’re just pulling stuff out of thin air now.

Madison high school isn’t in western fairfax, but several of its neighborhoods are. Have you ever seen a map? It’s been considered in every boundary review for South Lakes since the 80s.

Didn’t answer the question.

And this isn’t a boundary review for South Lakes. It’s a review to create new boundaries for a new school well to the west of South Lakes. Just because it pulls it South Lakes doesn’t mean there’s any reason to pull in under-capacity Madison. Do you want to include Marshall and Langley while you’re at it?

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Anonymous wrote:SLHS would not lose that many kids, it would still be in the 90% capacity.

They would lose around 500 bringing them to 83%

Fox Mill and part of Floris.

Its 400