FCPS Boundary Review Updates

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:From looking at scenario 3, are they adding students to McLean Hs?

They’re removing more students than they’re adding, so the net is still -200 students.

They’re currently adding the rest of Lemon Road and that random piece of Shrevewood. The townhouses from Lemon Road are a controversial move because they’re literally steps from Marshall HS with no major roads separating them.

[Anonymous]

I wonder if the county is nervous about the voucher system embedded in the tax bill. Now doesn’t seem like a great time to be upending school pyramids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:From looking at scenario 3, are they adding students to McLean Hs?

Not in the latest proposal. Latest Thru proposal would reduce McLean by 205 kids.

* 201 kids to Langley (Spring Hill attendance island)

* 190 kids to Falls Church (bulk of Timber Lane attendance island)

* Net 186 kids from Marshall (intended to reduce overcrowding at Kilmer MS, the main feeder MS to Marshall)

- part of Westgate (bounded by 123, Toll Road, 495) to McLean

- rest of Lemon Road to McLean (current split feeder)

- part of Falls Hill area from Shrevewood to McLean

- part of Timber Lane (west of Hollywood Road) to Marshall

Expect some of the Marshall/McLean swap to get revisited.

[Anonymous]

I’m sorry for this dumb question but is there an easy way to see the various scenarios? When I look up the boundary review in a google search, I’m not getting a straightforward “these are the options.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m sorry for this dumb question but is there an easy way to see the various scenarios? When I look up the boundary review in a google search, I’m not getting a straightforward “these are the options.”

No, there is not an easy way.

You have to go to the boundary review map embedded in the FCPS boundary info page. It is the one with all the dots.

Open that map.

Click on the neigbborhood or school you want to view.

There are 4 different map tiers: current boundaries, plus 3 different scenarios. I think it comes to 13 total different proposal maps per resident if you are trying to track changes from kindergarten through high school. The scenarios are all different. The scenarios are not the same scenarios presented by Thru at the first 2 meetings.

You can layer the current boundaries with each of the 3 scenarios, but you cannot layer the scenarios or elementary with high school.

You have to click the specific school level (such as elementary or high school) to get specific maps for that level, which might show different things based on level, between high school and elementary, for example.

You cannot do a simple search by pyramid. For example, there is no was to select "Annandale pyramid" to see all the maps layered to show all the changes affecting Annandale schools pyramid wide.

The map is not mobile friendly.

The map is not designed to be user friendly. You have to work to find the info you need.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m sorry for this dumb question but is there an easy way to see the various scenarios? When I look up the boundary review in a google search, I’m not getting a straightforward “these are the options.”

You can go to this web page for a description of the three scenarios: https://www.fcps.edu/about-fcps/maps/2024-2026-boundary-review

Scenario #1: Eliminates attendance islands and schools located outside their boundaries

Scenario #2: Scenario #1 plus eliminates split feeders under 25%

Scenario #3: Scenario #2 plus attempts to get overcrowded schools down to at least 105% of program capacity.

The interactive map where you can enter your address and see the different scenarios can be found at: https://www.fcpsboundaryreview.org/

The results vary by school.

Robinson and Herndon are examples of HS where no changes are contemplated.

McLean and Marshall are examples of HS where all the proposed changes are picked up in Scenario #1 and then just repeated in Scenarios #2 and #3.

West Springfield and Chantilly are examples of HS where Scenario #1 is no change, but Scenarios #2 and #3 propose changes (and #3 more than #2).

Does that help?

[Anonymous]

https://www.fcps.edu/about-fcps/maps/2024-2026-boundary-review

Click on "explore boundary scenarios."

Look closely at the options. Some of the changes --especially in #2 and #3 are lightly shaded over the black boundary lines. At first look, you might not see changes.

[Anonymous]

Reading Dr. Reid's "Weekly Reflections," it really does seem like someone at FCPS may have been responsible for dropping a Centreville student's boundary proposals for a class project into this thread.

https://www.fcps.edu/news/superintendents-weekly-reflections-138

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Reading Dr. Reid's "Weekly Reflections," it really does seem like someone at FCPS may have been responsible for dropping a Centreville student's boundary proposals for a class project into this thread.

https://www.fcps.edu/news/superintendents-weekly-reflections-138

Imagine the fury if they went nuclear at this point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Poplar Heights and Donna Lee Gardens should be lobbying to move to Shrevewood in place of the apartments off Hollywood Rd. This would eliminate the risk of Shrevewood becoming an over capacity Title I school. They’d also be guaranteed their consolation pyramid (Kilmer/Marshall) and they’d physically share a border with the McLean HS boundary should the Shrevewood split feeder proposal stick.

Shrevewood parents crap all over their current poor kids (off Route 29 and outside the Beltway) so they probably aren't going to be very nice to the kids west of Hollywood Road, either. They want so bad to be Haycock South and instead the school is turning into Timber Lane West.

Shrevewood parents have given up on that community and school. Most families have taken their UMC kids to Lemon Road and it seems like most (all) would be happy to be redistricted to MHS. Pathetic little community of virtue signalers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Reading Dr. Reid's "Weekly Reflections," it really does seem like someone at FCPS may have been responsible for dropping a Centreville student's boundary proposals for a class project into this thread.

https://www.fcps.edu/news/superintendents-weekly-reflections-138

Imagine the fury if they went nuclear at this point.

I think the student came up with a model that tried to reduce commuting distance, but without regard to actual or planned school capacity. That keeps it an academic exercise.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Reading Dr. Reid's "Weekly Reflections," it really does seem like someone at FCPS may have been responsible for dropping a Centreville student's boundary proposals for a class project into this thread.

https://www.fcps.edu/news/superintendents-weekly-reflections-138

Imagine the fury if they went nuclear at this point.

I think the student came up with a model that tried to reduce commuting distance, but without regard to actual or planned school capacity. That keeps it an academic exercise.

Yep.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Poplar Heights and Donna Lee Gardens should be lobbying to move to Shrevewood in place of the apartments off Hollywood Rd. This would eliminate the risk of Shrevewood becoming an over capacity Title I school. They’d also be guaranteed their consolation pyramid (Kilmer/Marshall) and they’d physically share a border with the McLean HS boundary should the Shrevewood split feeder proposal stick.

Shrevewood parents crap all over their current poor kids (off Route 29 and outside the Beltway) so they probably aren't going to be very nice to the kids west of Hollywood Road, either. They want so bad to be Haycock South and instead the school is turning into Timber Lane West.

Shrevewood parents have given up on that community and school. Most families have taken their UMC kids to Lemon Road and it seems like most (all) would be happy to be redistricted to MHS. Pathetic little community of virtue signalers.

Actually you're wrong. Much of Falls Hill prefers to stay at Marshall.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Poplar Heights and Donna Lee Gardens should be lobbying to move to Shrevewood in place of the apartments off Hollywood Rd. This would eliminate the risk of Shrevewood becoming an over capacity Title I school. They’d also be guaranteed their consolation pyramid (Kilmer/Marshall) and they’d physically share a border with the McLean HS boundary should the Shrevewood split feeder proposal stick.

Shrevewood parents crap all over their current poor kids (off Route 29 and outside the Beltway) so they probably aren't going to be very nice to the kids west of Hollywood Road, either. They want so bad to be Haycock South and instead the school is turning into Timber Lane West.

Shrevewood parents have given up on that community and school. Most families have taken their UMC kids to Lemon Road and it seems like most (all) would be happy to be redistricted to MHS. Pathetic little community of virtue signalers.

Actually you're wrong. Much of Falls Hill prefers to stay at Marshall.

So why has there been a mass exodus out of Shrevewood to Lemon Road? AAP is the front.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Poplar Heights and Donna Lee Gardens should be lobbying to move to Shrevewood in place of the apartments off Hollywood Rd. This would eliminate the risk of Shrevewood becoming an over capacity Title I school. They’d also be guaranteed their consolation pyramid (Kilmer/Marshall) and they’d physically share a border with the McLean HS boundary should the Shrevewood split feeder proposal stick.

Shrevewood parents crap all over their current poor kids (off Route 29 and outside the Beltway) so they probably aren't going to be very nice to the kids west of Hollywood Road, either. They want so bad to be Haycock South and instead the school is turning into Timber Lane West.

Shrevewood parents have given up on that community and school. Most families have taken their UMC kids to Lemon Road and it seems like most (all) would be happy to be redistricted to MHS. Pathetic little community of virtue signalers.

Actually you're wrong. Much of Falls Hill prefers to stay at Marshall.

So why has there been a mass exodus out of Shrevewood to Lemon Road? AAP is the front.

That has zero to do with Lemon Road and Shrevewood.