FCPS Boundary Review Updates

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Anonymous wrote:Lets talk Timberlane. Is there any realistic chance it stays with McLean? Or gets transitioned into Marshall? Or is it ultimately bound for Falls Church High School?

I’d write to your sb rep. They created a real mess in that whole area, and you all got caught in the crossfire.

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Anonymous wrote:Thanks-but all proposals don’t have any reduction in the Langley boundary, so it’s safe right?

There is another round of changes coming.

Are you just referencing that they’ll have another round of feedback after this? I can’t see them adding changes at this point - maybe taking some changes off the table, but if they added changes it’d be politically quite painful for the school board, since their own no-bid consultant didn’t recommend them.

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Anonymous wrote:Here is my suggestion for Emerald Chase:

1. Lobby to stay at Oak Hill along with the Franklin Farm/Navy Island kids being sent there. There is room, I think according to the slides.
2. Go to Franklin along with the Navy Island. Again, I think there is room.
3. Lobby to go to Oakton along with the Navy Island. Chantilly is a non-starter.

I disagree with this gambit. If you want to attend Oakton HS pony up the cash to buy a house in Oakton. I don’t want to be fighting five years from now to keep my Oakton address home zoned to Oakton HS to accommodate “zone stability” for the Emerald Chase vultures.

Just because your town name is Oakton and the high school name is Oakton doesn't make it your community high school. Ask all the children all over FCPS who live much closer to one high school and go to a different one. The name doesn't matter, you can't use it as an excuse.

This is the silliest post.

Of course, if you live in Oakton you should attend the Oakton neighborhood high school. If you live in Lorton you should attend the Lorton neighborhood high school. If you live in Falls Church, you should attend the Falls Church neighborhood high school. It really is that simple.

At a minimum, students should be zoned for the high school that shares their home zip code, with all boundary tweaks limited to neighborhoods with zip codes outside of the immediate high school zip code.

You realize there are more than 1 Falls Church “neighborhood” schools right?

They all have different zip codes...

Falls Church high school 22042
Marshall High School 22043
Justice High School 22044

Not to mention the southern portion of McLean HS is also Falls Church (22046)

Whoever is suggesting doing ANYTHING related to school boundaries based on zipcodes really has no clue. Zipcodes are based on logistical convenience for a POST OFFICE from which your particular mail carrier's route originates. They are different in size and scope than schools, not typically co-located, and are not necessarily based on any notion of neighborhood or convenience, even if there does tend to be SOME degree of overlap in some cases with schools, it's by happenstance moreso than by design.

Agree. Some zips have more than one high school and some have none at all. I think there are a lot that apply to this.

If you don't live in the same zip code as a high school, then you would have the current status quo where you (hopefully) go to the nearest high school, but you are at risk of being rezoned every 5 years.

FCPS needs to lock in the closest neighborhoods to each high school if we are going to go through this 2 year process every 5 years. The zip code is an obvious non partial, concrete method to establish a compact area associated with each high school that will not be rezoned.

Or you could just prioritize buying a home as close as you can get to the high school. My neighborhood walks to HS. I think the chances of us ever getting rezoned to another HS- which would require a bus- are approximately 0%.

Great idea! There is a walking distance HS to every address in the county!

While we are at it, I hear the peasants calling for bread. Something about starving. What’s they you say? Let them eat cake? Wow, two amazing ideas in a row. You are on fire.

Location, location, location... We could have had a wonderful home on the cusp of a border but passed and found something not as nice nearby to the school we wanted. If a particular school is important to you then you need to prioritize location. I'm sorry that's just how it is with the nature of this sort of thing.

The Lemon Road ES rezoning takes kids who are literally across the street from Marshall HS and moves them to another HS. These kids could walk toMarshall in 2 minutes but will now have to take a 20 minute bus. So much for those parents' planning, eh?.

They shouldn’t move any of that area around Idylwood that’s currently split between Freedom Hill/Lemon Road/Shrevewood because those lines are going to be redrawn in a few years anyway when Dunn Loring elementary opens.

Does Pimmit Hills walk to Marshall? I’ve only ever seen high schoolers get off the bus there while directly across Magarity there are walkers heading to McLean.

They should move all of Pimmit to
Lemon Road. It makes no sense to have an apartment complex cut in half so if they move buildings, they move schools. They are walking distance to Lemon Road and are closer to Shrevewood and Westgate.

What do you mean by "Pimmit"? Pimmit Hills? Apartments off Pimmit Drive? They aren't the same thing and are on opposite sides of Route 7.

A counter-proposal for the Langley/McLean/Marshall/Madison pyramids:

Langley: Churchill Road, Spring Hill, Colvin Run, Great Falls, Forestville ES; Cooper MS

McLean: Chesterbrook, Franklin Sherman, Kent Gardens, Haycock, Lemon Road (except for area on Marshall side of Route 7), Westgate ES; Longfellow MS

Marshall: Shrevewood, Stenwood, Freedom Hill, Dunn Loring (when it opens), Timber Lane, Westbriar ES; Kilmer MS

Madison: Wolftrap, Louise Archer, Flint Hill, Marshall Road, Vienna, Cunningham Park ES; Thoreau MS

No split feeders except Lemon Road (temporary) unless numbers require adjustments. Route 7 treated as primary dividing line in Tysons area (Westbriar crosses Route 7, but the area is mostly the two malls and office buildings). No more worrying about attendance islands/bridging attendance islands.

The apartment complex behind Whole Foods off of Pimmit is half zoned for Lemon Road and 1/2 zoned for Freedom
Hill. An apartment complex being cut in half has kids bouncing between two schools. They should all go to Lemon Road as it is closer.

Is this the same apartment complex that Freedom tried to send in its entirety to Lemon Road 10-15 years ago because they didn’t want the poor students? They were successful in sending half. If so, they should be zoned back to Freedom. It was about the time when Lemon Road became a AAP Center.

PP is referring to the garden apartments on the south side of Route 7 between Pimmit Drive and George C. Marshall Drive.

Lemon Road got expanded in 2013. At the time all those apartments went to Freedom Hill. There were proposals to move all or some of the apartments to Lemon Road, which is on the other side of Route 7. This also coincided with overcrowding at Haycock, which at the time had an ever bigger AAP program that a lot of kids in the Marshall pyramid were attending.

The conclusion was to make Lemon Road an AAP center and send half the garden apartments in that complex there. Going by the current enrollment numbers it was a good decision as Lemon Road is at 101% capacity and Freedom Hill at 81% capacity. If all those kids had moved out of Freedom Hill it would be even more under capacity now. But it can result in situations where the kids of tenants in the same large complex who switch units have to change schools.

I just used to boundary adjustment tool and it has that 1/2 of the apartment complex (Lemon Road/Freedom Hill Complex) going to Longfellow and Mclean now. Which is odd because that was not on the original slide proposals. So now if kids move buildings they can move to a new ES, Middle and/or High School?

I also question what additional changes are on the boundary adjustment tool that was not on the slides.

There are a ton of changes added between the slides and the online tool, and a lot of them are very subtle. Look closely at your pyramid for all scenarios.

And, look for lightly shaded colors beyond boundary lines. Very subtle and painful adjustments are lightly shaded.

This is not true. They are all shaded the same color. Stop lying.

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Anonymous wrote:Lets talk Timberlane. Is there any realistic chance it stays with McLean? Or gets transitioned into Marshall? Or is it ultimately bound for Falls Church High School?

It never made sense that it went to McLean. Route 7 is a big boundary.

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Anonymous wrote:Here is my suggestion for Emerald Chase:

1. Lobby to stay at Oak Hill along with the Franklin Farm/Navy Island kids being sent there. There is room, I think according to the slides.
2. Go to Franklin along with the Navy Island. Again, I think there is room.
3. Lobby to go to Oakton along with the Navy Island. Chantilly is a non-starter.

I disagree with this gambit. If you want to attend Oakton HS pony up the cash to buy a house in Oakton. I don’t want to be fighting five years from now to keep my Oakton address home zoned to Oakton HS to accommodate “zone stability” for the Emerald Chase vultures.

Just because your town name is Oakton and the high school name is Oakton doesn't make it your community high school. Ask all the children all over FCPS who live much closer to one high school and go to a different one. The name doesn't matter, you can't use it as an excuse.

This is the silliest post.

Of course, if you live in Oakton you should attend the Oakton neighborhood high school. If you live in Lorton you should attend the Lorton neighborhood high school. If you live in Falls Church, you should attend the Falls Church neighborhood high school. It really is that simple.

At a minimum, students should be zoned for the high school that shares their home zip code, with all boundary tweaks limited to neighborhoods with zip codes outside of the immediate high school zip code.

You realize there are more than 1 Falls Church “neighborhood” schools right?

They all have different zip codes...

Falls Church high school 22042
Marshall High School 22043
Justice High School 22044

Not to mention the southern portion of McLean HS is also Falls Church (22046)

Whoever is suggesting doing ANYTHING related to school boundaries based on zipcodes really has no clue. Zipcodes are based on logistical convenience for a POST OFFICE from which your particular mail carrier's route originates. They are different in size and scope than schools, not typically co-located, and are not necessarily based on any notion of neighborhood or convenience, even if there does tend to be SOME degree of overlap in some cases with schools, it's by happenstance moreso than by design.

Agree. Some zips have more than one high school and some have none at all. I think there are a lot that apply to this.

If you don't live in the same zip code as a high school, then you would have the current status quo where you (hopefully) go to the nearest high school, but you are at risk of being rezoned every 5 years.

FCPS needs to lock in the closest neighborhoods to each high school if we are going to go through this 2 year process every 5 years. The zip code is an obvious non partial, concrete method to establish a compact area associated with each high school that will not be rezoned.

Or you could just prioritize buying a home as close as you can get to the high school. My neighborhood walks to HS. I think the chances of us ever getting rezoned to another HS- which would require a bus- are approximately 0%.

Great idea! There is a walking distance HS to every address in the county!

While we are at it, I hear the peasants calling for bread. Something about starving. What’s they you say? Let them eat cake? Wow, two amazing ideas in a row. You are on fire.

Location, location, location... We could have had a wonderful home on the cusp of a border but passed and found something not as nice nearby to the school we wanted. If a particular school is important to you then you need to prioritize location. I'm sorry that's just how it is with the nature of this sort of thing.

The Lemon Road ES rezoning takes kids who are literally across the street from Marshall HS and moves them to another HS. These kids could walk toMarshall in 2 minutes but will now have to take a 20 minute bus. So much for those parents' planning, eh?.

They shouldn’t move any of that area around Idylwood that’s currently split between Freedom Hill/Lemon Road/Shrevewood because those lines are going to be redrawn in a few years anyway when Dunn Loring elementary opens.

Does Pimmit Hills walk to Marshall? I’ve only ever seen high schoolers get off the bus there while directly across Magarity there are walkers heading to McLean.

They should move all of Pimmit to
Lemon Road. It makes no sense to have an apartment complex cut in half so if they move buildings, they move schools. They are walking distance to Lemon Road and are closer to Shrevewood and Westgate.

What do you mean by "Pimmit"? Pimmit Hills? Apartments off Pimmit Drive? They aren't the same thing and are on opposite sides of Route 7.

A counter-proposal for the Langley/McLean/Marshall/Madison pyramids:

Langley: Churchill Road, Spring Hill, Colvin Run, Great Falls, Forestville ES; Cooper MS

McLean: Chesterbrook, Franklin Sherman, Kent Gardens, Haycock, Lemon Road (except for area on Marshall side of Route 7), Westgate ES; Longfellow MS

Marshall: Shrevewood, Stenwood, Freedom Hill, Dunn Loring (when it opens), Timber Lane, Westbriar ES; Kilmer MS

Madison: Wolftrap, Louise Archer, Flint Hill, Marshall Road, Vienna, Cunningham Park ES; Thoreau MS

No split feeders except Lemon Road (temporary) unless numbers require adjustments. Route 7 treated as primary dividing line in Tysons area (Westbriar crosses Route 7, but the area is mostly the two malls and office buildings). No more worrying about attendance islands/bridging attendance islands.

The apartment complex behind Whole Foods off of Pimmit is half zoned for Lemon Road and 1/2 zoned for Freedom
Hill. An apartment complex being cut in half has kids bouncing between two schools. They should all go to Lemon Road as it is closer.

Is this the same apartment complex that Freedom tried to send in its entirety to Lemon Road 10-15 years ago because they didn’t want the poor students? They were successful in sending half. If so, they should be zoned back to Freedom. It was about the time when Lemon Road became a AAP Center.

PP is referring to the garden apartments on the south side of Route 7 between Pimmit Drive and George C. Marshall Drive.

Lemon Road got expanded in 2013. At the time all those apartments went to Freedom Hill. There were proposals to move all or some of the apartments to Lemon Road, which is on the other side of Route 7. This also coincided with overcrowding at Haycock, which at the time had an ever bigger AAP program that a lot of kids in the Marshall pyramid were attending.

The conclusion was to make Lemon Road an AAP center and send half the garden apartments in that complex there. Going by the current enrollment numbers it was a good decision as Lemon Road is at 101% capacity and Freedom Hill at 81% capacity. If all those kids had moved out of Freedom Hill it would be even more under capacity now. But it can result in situations where the kids of tenants in the same large complex who switch units have to change schools.

I just used to boundary adjustment tool and it has that 1/2 of the apartment complex (Lemon Road/Freedom Hill Complex) going to Longfellow and Mclean now. Which is odd because that was not on the original slide proposals. So now if kids move buildings they can move to a new ES, Middle and/or High School?

I also question what additional changes are on the boundary adjustment tool that was not on the slides.

There are a ton of changes added between the slides and the online tool, and a lot of them are very subtle. Look closely at your pyramid for all scenarios.

And, look for lightly shaded colors beyond boundary lines. Very subtle and painful adjustments are lightly shaded.

This is not true. They are all shaded the same color. Stop lying.

What they said is fair. The base map has different coloring to indicate parks and waterways and the overlay of the boundary recommendations have poor contrast. The color appears different than the rest of the boundary. The West Springfield adjustments are especially hard to follow around Middle Stream Valley Park because their using green and blue over a green base map.

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Anonymous wrote:Lets talk Timberlane. Is there any realistic chance it stays with McLean? Or gets transitioned into Marshall? Or is it ultimately bound for Falls Church High School?

I will give you my perspective, and it's mine only.

Timber Lane has been bouncing around in the Thru proposals. It's caught in the crossfire for two reasons: (1) it's an attendance island now at Longfellow/McLean and (2) Graham Road ES currently lies within the Timber Lane boundary south of Route 29.

The BRAC slides had them both keeping Timber Lane north of Route 29 at Longfellow/McLean, except for the area off Route 29 west of Hollywood Road, which they were proposing to move to Kilmer but keep at McLean. And then they had Timber Lane south of Route 29 moving to Longfellow but not McLean. The proposals required them to move part of Shrevewood from Marshall to McLean to bridge the island.

The proposals in the tool deal with some of the obvious flaws. They don't have kids going to Kilmer and then McLean any longer, or kids going to Longfellow and then Falls Church. By any reasonable measure, those are improvements. But they now propose to move all of Timber Lane north of Route 29 to Jackson/Falls Church, except for the area west of Hollywood Road, which they'd continue to move to Kilmer, but then also move to Marshall rather than keep it at McLean.

So if you're talking about Timber Lane north of Route 29, there are areas they'd move from Longfellow/McLean to both Kilmer/Marshall and Jackson/Falls Church. I don't see them backing off quickly from the proposal to send the area west of Hollywood Road to Shrevewood/Kilmer/Marshall, because it's tied to their proposed solution to Graham Road, which hasn't changed and involves changing the boundaries of four elementary schools (Graham Road, Pine Spring, Shrevewood, and Timber Lane). Move that area back to Timber Lane, and Timber Lane is seriously overcrowded with the changes south of Route 29. Move it to Shrevewood, and keep it at Longfellow/McLean, and they've created a new attendance island unless they move the rest of Timber Lane north of Route 29 back to Longfellow/McLean.

As to whether they might revert to keeping the rest of Timber Lane at Longfellow/McLean, that's possible. That's tied less to Graham Road, and relates more to whether they want to eliminate or bridge the current attendance island, and whether they want to take advantage of the Falls Church expansion to 2500 seats. Right now, moving that part of Timber Lane to Falls Church is the only proposal they have to move anything into Falls Church, and it won't push Jackson over 105%, either. If they do keep most of Timber Lane north of Route 29 at Longfellow/McLean, they'll need to move part of Shrevewood to Longfellow/McLean, unless they abandon the idea of eliminating attendance islands, and they'll need to reverse other proposed changes such as making Lemon Road feed entirely to Longfellow/McLean (although I'd also expect them after further review to keep the part of Lemon Road that's on the Marshall side of Route 7 there, since it's so close to GCM).

Moving this part of Timber Lane to Marshall rather than Falls Church is a possibility if the parents from the area lobby heavily for that as an alternative. In the mid-1980s, the Shouse Village neighborhood in Vienna was assigned to Langley (as it is now). Langley got overcrowded and FCPS staff proposed moving it to Marshall. The parents got them to move it to McLean instead, where it stayed until 2021. With other changes they are considering for Marshall, it looks like Marshall would have the space, so the issue is more whether Kilmer (which is overcrowded) would have space. This alternative would not take advantage of the additional seats at Falls Church, but they aren't proposing to do anything to move kids into expanded Herndon right now, either. So it's not like they have a consistent approach to making sure they are doing something at every high school that's been expanded recently to take advantage of additional seats.

TLDR version - sure, everything is going to remain in play for months, and it's possible they could revert to keeping most of Timber Lane north of Route 29 at Longfellow/McLean or entertain requests to move to Kilmer/Marshall instead. Area west of Hollywood Road is likely to move to Shrevewood since they've boxed themselves into making other changes to Timber Lane's boundaries south of Route 29 that will increase Timber Lane's enrollment.

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Anonymous wrote:Thanks-but all proposals don’t have any reduction in the Langley boundary, so it’s safe right?

There is another round of changes coming.

Are you just referencing that they’ll have another round of feedback after this? I can’t see them adding changes at this point - maybe taking some changes off the table, but if they added changes it’d be politically quite painful for the school board, since their own no-bid consultant didn’t recommend them.

I think it’s clear where their major focuses are, so I can still see some of these scenarios changing wildly (specifically for Marshall which has the most dramatic shifts that still don’t make much sense.)

It should be noted that WSHS and Chantilly have actual options in their scenarios. One in which no one is moved. In the Marshall/McLean/Vienna/Falls Church scenarios it’s all or nothing for the MS/HS moves.

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Anonymous wrote:Lets talk Timberlane. Is there any realistic chance it stays with McLean? Or gets transitioned into Marshall? Or is it ultimately bound for Falls Church High School?

I’d write to your sb rep. They created a real mess in that whole area, and you all got caught in the crossfire.

Their rep is Frisch, lol. Maybe ask him to kill Dunn Loring ES and expand McLean HS so they can keep all their kids and not torture families with boundary changes.

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Anonymous wrote:Here is my suggestion for Emerald Chase:

1. Lobby to stay at Oak Hill along with the Franklin Farm/Navy Island kids being sent there. There is room, I think according to the slides.
2. Go to Franklin along with the Navy Island. Again, I think there is room.
3. Lobby to go to Oakton along with the Navy Island. Chantilly is a non-starter.

I disagree with this gambit. If you want to attend Oakton HS pony up the cash to buy a house in Oakton. I don’t want to be fighting five years from now to keep my Oakton address home zoned to Oakton HS to accommodate “zone stability” for the Emerald Chase vultures.

Just because your town name is Oakton and the high school name is Oakton doesn't make it your community high school. Ask all the children all over FCPS who live much closer to one high school and go to a different one. The name doesn't matter, you can't use it as an excuse.

This is the silliest post.

Of course, if you live in Oakton you should attend the Oakton neighborhood high school. If you live in Lorton you should attend the Lorton neighborhood high school. If you live in Falls Church, you should attend the Falls Church neighborhood high school. It really is that simple.

At a minimum, students should be zoned for the high school that shares their home zip code, with all boundary tweaks limited to neighborhoods with zip codes outside of the immediate high school zip code.

You realize there are more than 1 Falls Church “neighborhood” schools right?

They all have different zip codes...

Falls Church high school 22042
Marshall High School 22043
Justice High School 22044

Not to mention the southern portion of McLean HS is also Falls Church (22046)

Whoever is suggesting doing ANYTHING related to school boundaries based on zipcodes really has no clue. Zipcodes are based on logistical convenience for a POST OFFICE from which your particular mail carrier's route originates. They are different in size and scope than schools, not typically co-located, and are not necessarily based on any notion of neighborhood or convenience, even if there does tend to be SOME degree of overlap in some cases with schools, it's by happenstance moreso than by design.

Agree. Some zips have more than one high school and some have none at all. I think there are a lot that apply to this.

If you don't live in the same zip code as a high school, then you would have the current status quo where you (hopefully) go to the nearest high school, but you are at risk of being rezoned every 5 years.

FCPS needs to lock in the closest neighborhoods to each high school if we are going to go through this 2 year process every 5 years. The zip code is an obvious non partial, concrete method to establish a compact area associated with each high school that will not be rezoned.

Or you could just prioritize buying a home as close as you can get to the high school. My neighborhood walks to HS. I think the chances of us ever getting rezoned to another HS- which would require a bus- are approximately 0%.

Great idea! There is a walking distance HS to every address in the county!

While we are at it, I hear the peasants calling for bread. Something about starving. What’s they you say? Let them eat cake? Wow, two amazing ideas in a row. You are on fire.

Location, location, location... We could have had a wonderful home on the cusp of a border but passed and found something not as nice nearby to the school we wanted. If a particular school is important to you then you need to prioritize location. I'm sorry that's just how it is with the nature of this sort of thing.

The Lemon Road ES rezoning takes kids who are literally across the street from Marshall HS and moves them to another HS. These kids could walk toMarshall in 2 minutes but will now have to take a 20 minute bus. So much for those parents' planning, eh?.

They shouldn’t move any of that area around Idylwood that’s currently split between Freedom Hill/Lemon Road/Shrevewood because those lines are going to be redrawn in a few years anyway when Dunn Loring elementary opens.

Does Pimmit Hills walk to Marshall? I’ve only ever seen high schoolers get off the bus there while directly across Magarity there are walkers heading to McLean.

They should move all of Pimmit to
Lemon Road. It makes no sense to have an apartment complex cut in half so if they move buildings, they move schools. They are walking distance to Lemon Road and are closer to Shrevewood and Westgate.

What do you mean by "Pimmit"? Pimmit Hills? Apartments off Pimmit Drive? They aren't the same thing and are on opposite sides of Route 7.

A counter-proposal for the Langley/McLean/Marshall/Madison pyramids:

Langley: Churchill Road, Spring Hill, Colvin Run, Great Falls, Forestville ES; Cooper MS

McLean: Chesterbrook, Franklin Sherman, Kent Gardens, Haycock, Lemon Road (except for area on Marshall side of Route 7), Westgate ES; Longfellow MS

Marshall: Shrevewood, Stenwood, Freedom Hill, Dunn Loring (when it opens), Timber Lane, Westbriar ES; Kilmer MS

Madison: Wolftrap, Louise Archer, Flint Hill, Marshall Road, Vienna, Cunningham Park ES; Thoreau MS

No split feeders except Lemon Road (temporary) unless numbers require adjustments. Route 7 treated as primary dividing line in Tysons area (Westbriar crosses Route 7, but the area is mostly the two malls and office buildings). No more worrying about attendance islands/bridging attendance islands.

The apartment complex behind Whole Foods off of Pimmit is half zoned for Lemon Road and 1/2 zoned for Freedom
Hill. An apartment complex being cut in half has kids bouncing between two schools. They should all go to Lemon Road as it is closer.

Is this the same apartment complex that Freedom tried to send in its entirety to Lemon Road 10-15 years ago because they didn’t want the poor students? They were successful in sending half. If so, they should be zoned back to Freedom. It was about the time when Lemon Road became a AAP Center.

PP is referring to the garden apartments on the south side of Route 7 between Pimmit Drive and George C. Marshall Drive.

Lemon Road got expanded in 2013. At the time all those apartments went to Freedom Hill. There were proposals to move all or some of the apartments to Lemon Road, which is on the other side of Route 7. This also coincided with overcrowding at Haycock, which at the time had an ever bigger AAP program that a lot of kids in the Marshall pyramid were attending.

The conclusion was to make Lemon Road an AAP center and send half the garden apartments in that complex there. Going by the current enrollment numbers it was a good decision as Lemon Road is at 101% capacity and Freedom Hill at 81% capacity. If all those kids had moved out of Freedom Hill it would be even more under capacity now. But it can result in situations where the kids of tenants in the same large complex who switch units have to change schools.

I just used to boundary adjustment tool and it has that 1/2 of the apartment complex (Lemon Road/Freedom Hill Complex) going to Longfellow and Mclean now. Which is odd because that was not on the original slide proposals. So now if kids move buildings they can move to a new ES, Middle and/or High School?

I also question what additional changes are on the boundary adjustment tool that was not on the slides.

There are a ton of changes added between the slides and the online tool, and a lot of them are very subtle. Look closely at your pyramid for all scenarios.

And, look for lightly shaded colors beyond boundary lines. Very subtle and painful adjustments are lightly shaded.

This is not true. They are all shaded the same color. Stop lying.

What they said is fair. The base map has different coloring to indicate parks and waterways and the overlay of the boundary recommendations have poor contrast. The color appears different than the rest of the boundary. The West Springfield adjustments are especially hard to follow around Middle Stream Valley Park because their using green and blue over a green base map.

Exactly this.

And there are many additional changes that are not on the original map, such as a few streets from Silverbrook getting moved 25 minutes away to Lake Braddock from a school 5 minutes away, South County.

People were not expecting many of these additional changes.

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Sorry, but have the changes come out yet? I haven't been following closely.

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry, but have the changes come out yet? I haven't been following closely.

Read this thread and you'll be all caught up.

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry, but have the changes come out yet? I haven't been following closely.

Read this thread and you'll be all caught up.

All 400 pages???

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry, but have the changes come out yet? I haven't been following closely.

Read this thread and you'll be all caught up.

All 400 pages???

Summary - No one likes the proposed changes

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry, but have the changes come out yet? I haven't been following closely.

Read this thread and you'll be all caught up.

All 400 pages???

Summary - No one likes the proposed changes

Thank you. So they haven't come out yet? When will they be official?

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry, but have the changes come out yet? I haven't been following closely.

Read this thread and you'll be all caught up.

All 400 pages???

Summary - No one likes the proposed changes

Thank you. So they haven't come out yet? When will they be official?

https://www.fcpsboundaryreview.org/