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Anonymous
Hopefully, they relieve Chantilly and Centreville as part of this first round of boundary changes. There are 100s of seats in Herndon that need to be used rather than spending 200 million to make a mega school in Centreville with a projected declining enrollment. I say this in regards to the Lewis/WSHS comments because CV/CH are packed in like sardines and need relief now while Lewis and WS are fine and not nearly as costly. I get wanting to support Lewis enrollment numbers but that should not be the priority over the western HSs. |
Anonymous
+1 WSHS is fine - it’s at capacity and students who go there have not reported serious crowding or facility issues. They just got a renovation to better use the existing space, which helps a lot. WSHS being full and desirable as a school has nothing to do with Lewis and their students shouldn’t be used to prop up Lewis’s sagging enrollment. |
Anonymous
| There is however room to deal with some of the WSHS ES feeders, which can be overcrowded. Orange Hunt in particular. But this can be accomplished by changing boundaries with nearby ES zoned for Lake Braddock and/or South County and then moving students around in that area. LB and SC are physically closer than Lewis if you’re on the edges of WS’s boundaries, and both schools (SC in particular) could stand to absorb a few more students. |
Anonymous
Fake empathy for western HS? West Springfield is projected to be at 117% capacity in 2028, and Centreville only at 113%. And why should Centreville be denied a decent renovation the attention that Oakton, West Springfield, and Langley all received. |
Anonymous
No one is suggesting they shouldn't get a renovation. But it doesn't make sense to expand Centreville to 3,000 capacity when the projected enrollment in 2026 and beyond is under 2,200. |
Anonymous
DP. Chantilly at 118%. I’m of the view that none should be moved, but PP has a point, why are Centreville and Chantilly exempt? FCPS should not be picking winners and losers. If this is their new playbook, they need to be all in. |
Anonymous
Another bald faced lie from Sandy at the July 18th SB meeting: she stated that CIP data is 99% accurate. Meanwhile, the HVES principal is emailing parents about a modular duplex being installed this week to support capacity by adding two extra classrooms. HVES is listed at 93% capacity and scheduled for 101% by 28-29 according to the CIP. So how far off are the CIP #s for other schools? |
Anonymous
They said they have no money for building more IIRC. And I thought the idea was that a 3000-person school wasn’t equitable from a student opportunity perspective. So scaling this to a basic renovation and moving some boundaries is the most efficient use of seats in the near term while also saving a whole bunch of money. |
Anonymous
Yep, the centreville expansion is unfortunately a casualty of the new policy. |
Anonymous
You are spreading misinformation. The Centreville expansion is still in the latest CIP, which this School Board approved. So is the Dunn Loring project, for which there is less need. There is no way they are going to expand Herndon as they did and then not add a significant number of additional seats to Centreville. Maybe only build it out to 2500, but it will still get expanded. |
Anonymous
I mean yes, it’s really hard to make the varsity girls volleyball team or the school musical in a 3000 person school. However: a lot of large schools will run a varsity, JV, and Freshman team for sports, and Freshman is often no cut. I’ve seen it where marching band was open to all as long as you played your instrument in middle school and went to all the practices (band is a class so it fits in your daily school schedule), and the audition bands like concert, jazz, orchestra for certain instruments, were optional. There are options. And it’s a hell of a lot easier for the school to offer all the AP classes and all the electives and multiple sessions of each at a school with 2500-3000 students vs. 1500-2000 students. The public high school in Indiana that went viral for looking like a nice new college campus building and having all the bells and whistles has an enrollment of around 7000, for context. |
Anonymous
I mean to convey that the centreville expansion doesn’t pass muster by the board’s new metrics as enshrined in the new policy. It’s duplicitous to say we don’t have money in the budget for unnecessary expansions so we have to redistrict while at the same time building a school out to become one of the larger schools in the county all the while with adequate seats nearby. If the school board doesn’t kill the expansion project, we will all know why, but based on their own updated criteria, it should be killed. |
Anonymous
The new policy is a boundary policy. It's not a policy on capital improvements. It would be crazy if board members like Dunne, McDaniel, and Lady - all of whom are zoned for schools that were recently expanded - were to invoke the boundary change policy as a basis to avoid making appropriate investments in Centreville and other schools scheduled for renovation. If they really want to show they care about spending money wisely, the first thing they should kill is the ridiculous Dunn Loring ES project, which is a complete waste of money. Investing in Centreville HS is not. |
Anonymous
It would not be crazy at all as capital improvements and boundary policies are intrinsically linked by their focus on enrollment and capacity. What a silly statement. Centreville enrollment is declining but they are overcrowded now along with Chantilly and there are seats sitting in Herndon. No need to expand; just renovate and save a lot of money. And in the meantime, just shift the boundaries and provide relief with the same sense of urgency some discussed the need to enroll more students as Louis. |
Anonymous
Centreville is still above capacity as is Chantilly, which unlike Herndon, is nearby. Expanding Centreville to accommodate both its current population and provide relief to Chantilly makes more sense than what you've proposed. Herndon can take kids from Westfield and Langley, if needed. Before that happens, there needs to be much more focus on the accuracy of the Herndon projections. And what is "Louis"? Where are you from, anyway? |