FCPS HS Boundary

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Anonymous wrote:It makes more sense to use the existing capacity at Herndon and SL to start relieving Chantilly and centreville. Mclean kids can shift a few to Langley. But the western schools need relief now and waiting until a mega expansion is built in 5 years isn’t great.

McLean families didn't want to move to Langley either, they are very consistent that they want to keep the same boundaries and students and that they deserve a renovation (totally agree) and an expansion (disagree). They have been consistent in their desire for both things for a while now. I can respect that.

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Not much talk from western areas because it's crowded, everywhere. Once they actually move some of Westfield to Herndon and then Chantilly to Westfield, I'm sure Chantilly parents will be all over the forums....especially the Oak Hill and Franklin Farm parents.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think my post loaded. At a minimum there should be checks when you enter a new school (middle or high). Doing residency checks may alleviate a portion of the over crowding. And cause less disruptions to the kids they plan to move. How over crowded are the schools with kids who actually live in the boundary? Seems like a logical first step. They can do it during this “gathering data” phase

That is a great compromise.

New proof of residency must be provided to enroll in the next school level..

That would just be 2 times, 7th grade and 9th grade.

Likely, this would catch most of the people abusing the FCPS system by falsifying residency, with very little extra work for staff.

I would also suggest that residency checks should be required before rezoning any school.

Those who own or rent homes zoned for the school will be happy to provide it.

Those who are cheating will be unhappy, but it will protect people who are zoned for a school from unnecessary rezoning due to false attendance estimates.

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Anonymous wrote:What exactly is involved in a "residency check?"

Many schools across the country do this.

You bring in a current copy of a utility bill, car tax statement, personal property tax statement, mortgage statement, or signed current lease to the office when you register your kid in FCPS. The address must be located within the school zone and have one parent or guardian's name on it.

A residency check would require parents do this each year, or the year before any rezoning is implemented.

Addresses that do not match must return to their zoned school.

Grandma's address does not work unless she is the legal guardian.

All of my kids knew of several kids attending our high school (one discussed extensively on this thread as a rezoning target) who lived in houses zoned for neighboring schools. One of my kid's friends moved during middle school from their small townhouse in zone, to a very big, nice, newer house zoned for one of the low performing schools discusses in this thread.

Their family moved in 7th grade. The kid graduated with my kid. The kid spend 8th-12th grade attending our school instead of their zoned middle and high school.

Another one of my kids friends moved at the end of elementary school from a nice house in our neighborhood to a huge house zoned for a nearby high school discussed on this thread as a good school with lower enrollment.

That family used a family member's address to stay in our middle and high school for all of 7th through 12th grade graduation. They used this address even after the house was sold to a family with kids.

Every school year my kids end up at a team party or social event at a house not zoned for our high school. Different kids, different grades, different families.

They are able to do this because FCPS only checks residency 1 time.

You could easily register your kid in kindergarten at one address, move to another pyramid in 1st grade, and stay in the original pyramid through high school graduation by not changing your address. I am sure there are plenty of families that do this, especially for middle and high school.

Perhaps the problem is not as big as it seems to me, but I think it is far bigger than FCPS wants to admit.

If they are going to rezone our high school, then they owe it to the families to 1) use accurate numbers, not inflated projections, to justify the rezoning and 2) do a full residency check prior to rezoning so affected families and the district are certain that the school is overcrowded with residents, and not falsely inflated by kids who are zoned to other high schools.

You can require proof of residency to enroll a kid. Once enrolled, it gets a lot more questionable especially if they don't have a plan for what happens if the parents don't bring documents. Regardless of whether or not the parents provide anything, the kid is already enrolled and entitled to a public education.

They could reassign the student to another school that has a lower enrollment.

In what policy is that allowed? And they would have to send a one off bus for that student.

Keep dreaming.

In the morning, there are car loads of kids coming from the mixing bowl area to be dropped off at WSHS.

The kids whose parents are falsifying residency are not riding the bus.

The bus routes are not a legit argument against residency checks when a kid mices between elementary/Junior High and JH/HS.

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Anonymous wrote:What exactly is involved in a "residency check?"

Many schools across the country do this.

You bring in a current copy of a utility bill, car tax statement, personal property tax statement, mortgage statement, or signed current lease to the office when you register your kid in FCPS. The address must be located within the school zone and have one parent or guardian's name on it.

A residency check would require parents do this each year, or the year before any rezoning is implemented.

Addresses that do not match must return to their zoned school.

Grandma's address does not work unless she is the legal guardian.

All of my kids knew of several kids attending our high school (one discussed extensively on this thread as a rezoning target) who lived in houses zoned for neighboring schools. One of my kid's friends moved during middle school from their small townhouse in zone, to a very big, nice, newer house zoned for one of the low performing schools discusses in this thread.

Their family moved in 7th grade. The kid graduated with my kid. The kid spend 8th-12th grade attending our school instead of their zoned middle and high school.

Another one of my kids friends moved at the end of elementary school from a nice house in our neighborhood to a huge house zoned for a nearby high school discussed on this thread as a good school with lower enrollment.

That family used a family member's address to stay in our middle and high school for all of 7th through 12th grade graduation. They used this address even after the house was sold to a family with kids.

Every school year my kids end up at a team party or social event at a house not zoned for our high school. Different kids, different grades, different families.

They are able to do this because FCPS only checks residency 1 time.

You could easily register your kid in kindergarten at one address, move to another pyramid in 1st grade, and stay in the original pyramid through high school graduation by not changing your address. I am sure there are plenty of families that do this, especially for middle and high school.

Perhaps the problem is not as big as it seems to me, but I think it is far bigger than FCPS wants to admit.

If they are going to rezone our high school, then they owe it to the families to 1) use accurate numbers, not inflated projections, to justify the rezoning and 2) do a full residency check prior to rezoning so affected families and the district are certain that the school is overcrowded with residents, and not falsely inflated by kids who are zoned to other high schools.

You can require proof of residency to enroll a kid. Once enrolled, it gets a lot more questionable especially if they don't have a plan for what happens if the parents don't bring documents. Regardless of whether or not the parents provide anything, the kid is already enrolled and entitled to a public education.

They could reassign the student to another school that has a lower enrollment.

In what policy is that allowed? And they would have to send a one off bus for that student.

Keep dreaming.

My point is, that WOULD BE the policy. And no, they don't have to send a "one off" bus-especially because if the parent told them where to send the bus, that would make it obvious where the student actually lives.
Parent is to provide transportation to school if the parent fails to produce proof of residence so that a school bus stop can be assigned. Simple.

Oh I see, so you’re advocating for a theoretical policy. What happens when you send the person without a car to a different school as punishment for the infraction?

Gotta think before you post.

Theses kids are not taking the bus. Their parents drop them off via a carpool with other out of bounds kids. They already have adult transportation to school.

The only reason to be against this is if you are abusing the system.

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The ritzy public schools around Columbus, OH (where my parents and some of my other family members live) employ private investigators to make sure the kids attending their schools are residing within the district’s boundaries. https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/education/2017/05/15/districts-keep-close-watch-on/21038052007/

“ Licking Heights schools near Pataskala was experiencing such a rash of residency issues, it now employs a part-time officer specifically to check up on them.

"For the first time, we're seeing a significant downturn," said Licking Heights Superintendent Philip J. Wagner. In 2015-16, the officer investigated 139 residency cases, and 59 children were withdrawn from the district. This year through February, there were 62 reported cases, with 22 children withdrawn.

As the state's fourth fastest-growing district, overcrowding was becoming an issue. Wagner closed enrollment in 2012-13, and got serious about residency requirements. The district's website now informs people how to anonymously report violations.”

These are small districts too. Not the county wide behemoths in NoVa and MD. A typical district would have 1 HS, 1 MS, and 4-5 ES, possibly fewer. (Central OH has fewer kids in Catholic schools than Cleveland and Cincinnati, where the Catholic population is larger and the Catholic schools do better in sports, so there are generally more public schools, although not to a huge degree.) And they’re catching roughly 60 kids. Imagine how many people are getting away with it in big FCPS!

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Those districts care because they are so carefully drawn to exclude poor kids. FCPS does not care if a kid zoned for lewis goes to WSHS because it's still FCPS paying either way

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Anonymous wrote:Where can we see the proposed boundary changes or is everything just speculation for now?

I have a kid at Langley and he said his friends from Great Falls may have to switch schools. I have heard about rezoning for years. These kids are smart and motivated. I don’t know how these smart kids would help the struggling kids at Herndon. On paper, the school would look better but all you are doing is moving smart white and Asian kids to Herndon. I actually think more parents would either move or switch to private before switching to Herndon. I know I would.

OMG. Herndon doesn’t care if those so-called superior kids come or not on the basis of their socio-economic basis. They don’t care if they come at all. They just want the government to make decisions without being bullied by the top 1-3% of households with high income in FCPS to do what is just in their best interest.

+1000. I helped pay for Herndon’s expansion so I expect kids who live two miles from Herndon and 10 miles from Langley to attend Herndon. Period.

They can be re-zoned there, sure. But there are already kids who live 2 miles from Herndon, are currently zoned to that school, and don’t attend.

There are also kids who live two miles from Langley who attend other schools, including Marshall and Potomac. We can’t always force kids to attend the public schools in their area, but we can at least have boundaries that aren’t obviously gerrymandered.

I’m with you. Clean up 🧹 the boundaries and motivate more parents to get their children out of FCPS.

If being zoned to the schools their kids should attend leads Great Falls parents to exit FCPS, good riddance.

+1. Herndon mom here. We don’t need disgruntled former Langley families complaining about being forced to move to FARMS school. Please go private, but continue paying those Fairfax taxes.

You don’t realize that you’re the problem, not your kids. You’re lazy and happy to take other people’s resources.

You keep saying you don’t need us, then make comments like this saying the exact opposite. Do you depend on us or do you want nothing to do with us?

I think the Herndon parents would be happy to welcome any family that attends HHS without the grumbling, kevetching, and calling the kids who attend the school gang bangers. They are less thrilled to have the families who seem to think that their kids will be attending a school that is inferior with kids that they look down on or are afraid of. To be frank, your attitude sucks. No one doubts the desire to want to provide the best you can for your child but in doing so you are spending a lot of time trashing another group of kids and their school. It is not a good look.

It may not be a good look but it reflects the attitude of Langley parents. As a group, and especially when they get together and work themselves into a collective frenzy, they are just awful.

I generally think Great Falls residents are amazing. It’s funny the SJWs in this site really have changed my political views, but not in the way that they would have hoped.

You just stereotyped all Great Falls as awful. Have fun working the PTA with people you dislike so much!

The critics forget themselves. McLean carries the financial weight of FCPS and can create its own school district, avoid this mess, preserve our home values, and ensure the richness of the schools and their programs. If we decide, what options do the critics have? In truth, nothing. McLean has all to gain and nothing to lose. It fundraises Fairfax Democrats, and any aspiring politician will toe the line. This current bunch has forgotten its place. People moved to McLean for a reason. Accept that reality and pick another target.

Go ahead. Try to incorporate McLean and create your own schools. We will get out the popcorn while we watch you make that happen. The headlines will be a fun read too.

I think you've lost the plot.

McLean is largely sitting out this boundary discussion. If you live in McLean you're still going to end up at Langley, McLean, or Marshall (or TJ). You aren't agitated like the Great Falls posters, who are upset about the prospect of going to Herndon and in some cases blame McLean for (1) voting for Democrats and/or (2) having kids who might get rezoned from McLean to Langley (thus prompting the possible Langley-to-Herndon move).

No one in McLean thinks it's going to incorporate as a separate jurisdiction, especially with the recent extension of the moratorium through 2032. The MCA had a small committee looking at incorporation, which it disbanded once the state legislature extended the prohibition and Youngkin signed the bill.

Most people are sitting this out. The only people who are really upset are the people who live in ares that are highly likely to be rezoned to schools they deem less desirable. We are mainly reading posts from people who are in Great Falls and know that they might be moved to Herndon and the WSHS families who might be moved to Lewis. I have not seen many posts from people coming out of Chantilly or Centerville probably because they know the schools need relief and most of the alternative HSs are solid schools. I am guessing parents would prefer not to move but they are less up in arms because where they might be moved is less objectionable and they know that the schools are crowded.

There are parents wh are happy with the upcoming changes because they hope that it will improve their school and help their kids. But most of the County knows that their kids are not in the margins that are going to be shifted and are not that worried about it. I don't think anyone really expects that the school board is going to shift boundaries every 5 years. Most people understand that more periodic reviews should help to decrease some of the utilization issues that exist now.

Or, it just isn’t on a lot of people’s radar yet. When the maps come out is when the real outrage will begin.

Then repeat every five years.

It's on peoples radar. The newspaper articles and meetings have been posted on my neighborhood Facebook page. My kid is in activities that meet during the summer with kids at 5 different high schools and all of the parents have mentioned it. People are aware but none of them seem to be all that excited about it one way or the other. Some live close to the HS that they are at right now or where the kids are going to be attending. Some because they are not worried about shifting between the schools in their area.

And no one I know thinks that there will be shifts every 5 years.

I’ve met several people, with kids in the line of fire who haven’t heard of the boundary review, and that’s people likely directly impacted by it. You’re right that some people won’t care, but you are just trying to minimize/downplay the upcoming blowback.

No one that I know thinks that there will be shifts every five years, except for everyone who has read the policy and knows the boundary review is required by the school board. Your attempts at gaslighting on this point is incredibly transparent and not credible.

Boundary review is required. Not boundary changes. Boundary review. They can look at boundaries and go "We don't need to make any changes." They could look at the boundaries and see that a school is now over crowded and review if they need to make a shift in order to deal with the over crowding. They might decide they don't need to make a change because it is caused by event X or they might decide that they do because cause X is more long term and not a one off.

The change is going to suck for kids moved from Langley to Herndon and WSHS to Lewis. The schools they are moving to are very different schools. There is no getting around that. I get why parents are upset and concerned. Do I think that the boundary adjustments shouldn't be made? No. We have overcrowded schools and under utilized schools, lets use the space that we have intelligently.

If my kid is moved he will move from a mid level school to another mid level school. He isn't in high school yet and I am not attached to the high school he is set to go to. All that he cares about is that he stays with his friends from his ES days and he will be because his ES is not a split feeder.

I am comfortable with his being moved to a different school, even Herndon, because I know that there is a solid AP program and he will be moving into that cohort. I would prefer he stay where he is rather then move to Herndon but I am not selling my house to move to a different school. I am not renting an apartment to get into a different school. We cannot afford private. I know enough people who have graduated from Herndon and have had great experiences there. None of their kids have had issues that folks on this board are worried about. I would prefer he move into a school that is less of a school within a school because I don't think that is the best environment. I don't think moving MC and UMC kids into Herndon or Lewis or Mt. Vernon is going to make a difference in the lives of the kids who are struggling. I also don't think you build an extension to a school when there are open seats nearby.

Aren't you the South Lakes poster who posts regularly here? It would help if you'd identify yourself so that people understand you're repeating the perspective of someone whose school happened to benefit from an earlier boundary change and then was expanded outside the renovation queue.

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Anonymous wrote:It makes more sense to use the existing capacity at Herndon and SL to start relieving Chantilly and centreville. Mclean kids can shift a few to Langley. But the western schools need relief now and waiting until a mega expansion is built in 5 years isn’t great.

McLean families didn't want to move to Langley either, they are very consistent that they want to keep the same boundaries and students and that they deserve a renovation (totally agree) and an expansion (disagree). They have been consistent in their desire for both things for a while now. I can respect that.

You keep repeating this, and it is false.

Many of the families redistricted from McLean to Langley in 2021 wanted to move. They typically had younger kids at Colvin Run and Spring Hill, both of which are split feeders where most of the kids go to Cooper/Langley. They welcomed the move so their kids could stay together with their ES classmates through high school.

Other McLean families opposed the move. Some had older kids who had attended Colvin Run and Spring Hill, but gone on to have a good experience at Longfellow/McLean, and they wanted this for their other children as well. Others weren't directly affected by the boundary change, but opposed it because they know the school will eventually lose teachers and electives if FCPS just keeps redistricting kids.

Even with the funky attendance islands, McLean has relatively compact boundaries, and serves a dense area slated for more future growth. When it is next renovated, it will make sense to expand the school, which has the fewest permanent seats of any HS in FCPS. Stated differently, it would be short-sighted not to expand the school just because another school at the opposite end of the county has some extra capacity. But, either way, there may be further boundary changes before that happens.

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Anonymous wrote:What exactly is involved in a "residency check?"

Many schools across the country do this.

You bring in a current copy of a utility bill, car tax statement, personal property tax statement, mortgage statement, or signed current lease to the office when you register your kid in FCPS. The address must be located within the school zone and have one parent or guardian's name on it.

A residency check would require parents do this each year, or the year before any rezoning is implemented.

Addresses that do not match must return to their zoned school.

Grandma's address does not work unless she is the legal guardian.

All of my kids knew of several kids attending our high school (one discussed extensively on this thread as a rezoning target) who lived in houses zoned for neighboring schools. One of my kid's friends moved during middle school from their small townhouse in zone, to a very big, nice, newer house zoned for one of the low performing schools discusses in this thread.

Their family moved in 7th grade. The kid graduated with my kid. The kid spend 8th-12th grade attending our school instead of their zoned middle and high school.

Another one of my kids friends moved at the end of elementary school from a nice house in our neighborhood to a huge house zoned for a nearby high school discussed on this thread as a good school with lower enrollment.

That family used a family member's address to stay in our middle and high school for all of 7th through 12th grade graduation. They used this address even after the house was sold to a family with kids.

Every school year my kids end up at a team party or social event at a house not zoned for our high school. Different kids, different grades, different families.

They are able to do this because FCPS only checks residency 1 time.

You could easily register your kid in kindergarten at one address, move to another pyramid in 1st grade, and stay in the original pyramid through high school graduation by not changing your address. I am sure there are plenty of families that do this, especially for middle and high school.

Perhaps the problem is not as big as it seems to me, but I think it is far bigger than FCPS wants to admit.

If they are going to rezone our high school, then they owe it to the families to 1) use accurate numbers, not inflated projections, to justify the rezoning and 2) do a full residency check prior to rezoning so affected families and the district are certain that the school is overcrowded with residents, and not falsely inflated by kids who are zoned to other high schools.

You can require proof of residency to enroll a kid. Once enrolled, it gets a lot more questionable especially if they don't have a plan for what happens if the parents don't bring documents. Regardless of whether or not the parents provide anything, the kid is already enrolled and entitled to a public education.

They could reassign the student to another school that has a lower enrollment.

In what policy is that allowed? And they would have to send a one off bus for that student.

Keep dreaming.

My point is, that WOULD BE the policy. And no, they don't have to send a "one off" bus-especially because if the parent told them where to send the bus, that would make it obvious where the student actually lives.
Parent is to provide transportation to school if the parent fails to produce proof of residence so that a school bus stop can be assigned. Simple.

Oh I see, so you’re advocating for a theoretical policy. What happens when you send the person without a car to a different school as punishment for the infraction?

Gotta think before you post.

Being removed to go to your assigned school is not a punishment.

Correct, if they were at their assigned school they would get bus service or be within the walk zone. Whereas at the out of boundary school they have to have someone drive them. One of the biggest contributors to absenteeism is the parent not getting the kid to school/to school on time, so a kid getting on the bus to their assigned school should help with the all important attendance.

Sorry maybe we’re talking past each other. I understood the original post to say someone caught skirting the rules would have their kids sent to an under enrolled school, not their base school. That’s the genesis of my pushback.

Ultimately, this seems more of an academic exercise than anything. There are just too many reasons to maintain the status quo, despite Herndon and Lewis zoned families taking advantage of it.

Anyone with $24k-$30k could probably take the rental approach with little risk.

I'm not the pp you quoted, but I believe it might be my post you are referring to?

Someone posted that "they don't have a plan for what happens if the parents don't bring documents." My response was that if parents don't have proof of residency in a school zone, the kid should be assigned to a school with the lowest enrollment.

Parent: I'm here to register my child at X high school We live at 123 Elm st., which is in the boundaries
School Registrar: Great! Do you have a lease or utility bill or other proof of residence?
Parent: No, I don't
School Registrar: Ok, then. We'll just take your word for it, even though X high school is already 20% over capacity....


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Parent; I'm here to register my child at X high School. We live at 123 Elm St. which is in the boundaries
School Registrar: Great! Do you have a lease or utility bill or other proof of residence?
Parent: No, I don't
School Registrar: Well, I'm sorry but we require proof of residence. X high school is already 20% over capacity and we need to ensure we are only enrolling students who live within the boundaries. If you could, please come back with proof of residence, or we could enroll your child at Y high school because they are 15% under capacity right now. You would be responsible for providing transportation to Y High for your child.

No, they get sent to the schools zoned for 123 Elm St. Whatever those are. Not “oh you tried to get into school A without proof, now we’re sending you to school
B because it’s below capacity, but you should really be at school C by your address.” None of that. Unless you’re talking about the families specifically claiming to be “homeless” for the football situation described in another thread, which is a separate whole ass mess.

Maybe that's what they are doing now and that's why some schools are overcrowded, but they shouldn't do that.

It's not what they do. I just had to register my kid for high school (he did private for middle school). I had to provide proof of residence even though I already have another kid at the same high school.

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Anonymous wrote:Not much talk from western areas because it's crowded, everywhere. Once they actually move some of Westfield to Herndon and then Chantilly to Westfield, I'm sure Chantilly parents will be all over the forums....especially the Oak Hill and Franklin Farm parents.

Yeah, thanks but no thanks.

- Chantilly parent

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Anonymous wrote:Not much talk from western areas because it's crowded, everywhere. Once they actually move some of Westfield to Herndon and then Chantilly to Westfield, I'm sure Chantilly parents will be all over the forums....especially the Oak Hill and Franklin Farm parents.

Yeah, thanks but no thanks.

- Chantilly parent

Start advocating. Chantilly was brought up many times at the school board. Its definitely on their minds

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Anonymous wrote:Not much talk from western areas because it's crowded, everywhere. Once they actually move some of Westfield to Herndon and then Chantilly to Westfield, I'm sure Chantilly parents will be all over the forums....especially the Oak Hill and Franklin Farm parents.

There is plenty of capacity to be used on the east side to help alleviate McLean and FC and Justice. In the western part of the county, Chantilly and centreville are way over capacity and Herndon and SL are right next door in conjunction with moves to Westfields.

I know some may want to “stick it” to GF parents, but the smart move is to immediately shift Chantilly and centreville kids northward and not waste any of the capacity on forestville es or years and millions on the cash expansion.

They said so in the board meeting that there was no money. But it will look silly to leave centreville and Chantilly busting at the seems while they shift some GF kids from one under enrolled school to another in HHS and a few kids to Lewis from WSHS when neither are dealing with what centreville and Chantilly are dealing with regarding capacity.

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Anonymous wrote:Not much talk from western areas because it's crowded, everywhere. Once they actually move some of Westfield to Herndon and then Chantilly to Westfield, I'm sure Chantilly parents will be all over the forums....especially the Oak Hill and Franklin Farm parents.

There is plenty of capacity to be used on the east side to help alleviate McLean and FC and Justice. In the western part of the county, Chantilly and centreville are way over capacity and Herndon and SL are right next door in conjunction with moves to Westfields.

I know some may want to “stick it” to GF parents, but the smart move is to immediately shift Chantilly and centreville kids northward and not waste any of the capacity on forestville es or years and millions on the cash expansion.

They said so in the board meeting that there was no money. But it will look silly to leave centreville and Chantilly busting at the seems while they shift some GF kids from one under enrolled school to another in HHS and a few kids to Lewis from WSHS when neither are dealing with what centreville and Chantilly are dealing with regarding capacity.

It won’t look silly to eliminate the split feeder at Spring Hill or to move Forestville kids who live much closer to Herndon than to Langley there. That wouldn’t preclude moving some Chantilly kids before the Centreville project is completed. Keep in mind FCPS is projecting hundreds of extra seats at Herndon and a decline in Centreville’s enrollment.

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Anonymous wrote:Not much talk from western areas because it's crowded, everywhere. Once they actually move some of Westfield to Herndon and then Chantilly to Westfield, I'm sure Chantilly parents will be all over the forums....especially the Oak Hill and Franklin Farm parents.

There is plenty of capacity to be used on the east side to help alleviate McLean and FC and Justice. In the western part of the county, Chantilly and centreville are way over capacity and Herndon and SL are right next door in conjunction with moves to Westfields.

I know some may want to “stick it” to GF parents, but the smart move is to immediately shift Chantilly and centreville kids northward and not waste any of the capacity on forestville es or years and millions on the cash expansion.

They said so in the board meeting that there was no money. But it will look silly to leave centreville and Chantilly busting at the seems while they shift some GF kids from one under enrolled school to another in HHS and a few kids to Lewis from WSHS when neither are dealing with what centreville and Chantilly are dealing with regarding capacity.

It won’t look silly to eliminate the split feeder at Spring Hill or to move Forestville kids who live much closer to Herndon than to Langley there. That wouldn’t preclude moving some Chantilly kids before the Centreville project is completed. Keep in mind FCPS is projecting hundreds of extra seats at Herndon and a decline in Centreville’s enrollment.

Cville/Chantilly need all that space now vs giving GF a shorter bus ride. So you would just leave cville to be the most crowded school in the county and also under construction for the next 4-5 years? Seems silly when you can move what’s required now and save 100s of millions.