FCPS Boundary Review - New Maps

[Anonymous]

fairfax matters published a detailed summary of the latest BRAC meeting. what’s really concerning is thru asked each region to list their top 10 priorities when changing boundaries. most pushed back on the changes or correcting things that make it worse. some prioritized accurate data. region 5 had making moves to forestville elementary to herndon high school out of langley when they are regional 1. why is region 5 making recommendations for region 1? thru said they will take priorities into consideration for next maps. not their own independent ideas. wtf region 5

[Anonymous]

I think a good number of comments in feedback time was about looking at transfers before moving kids that rightfully live in the boundaries. So this is just showing that it wouldn’t change much if they moved transfers so they can continue with their plan.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:what are the actual proposals? are there any that we know of?

From the email:

“What’s Next

Fall Community Boundary Review Meetings
In the fall, the consultant will update the Boundary Explorer Tool with refined scenarios. We will present the scenarios and gather feedback during another round of community meetings as part of Phase 2 (Part 2).

Final Advisory Committee Scenario Development
The consultant will develop boundary scenarios in November and December. Then, the committee will review those and make any final recommendations to the superintendent.

Superintendent’s Recommendations
I will consider the committee’s recommendations, and based on my review, I will present recommendations and a proposed implementation plan to the Fairfax County School Board in January 2026.”

It sounds like we will get a trickle of “refined scenarios” in the online tool over the next two months, that will then be formally presented in more community meetings.

Then, after the election, “The consultant will develop boundary scenarios in November and December.” This will result in final scenarios that Reid will present in January. My takeaway is that we will get to see the final scenario sometime the first week of winter break. Lovely.

You can’t make this up. Two years of everyone’s time and energy for the actual scenarios to be put together in a narrow window post-election, dumped on us during winter break, then pushed out in January, to take effect the following August.

What does this year’s election have to do with it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:fairfax matters published a detailed summary of the latest BRAC meeting. what’s really concerning is thru asked each region to list their top 10 priorities when changing boundaries. most pushed back on the changes or correcting things that make it worse. some prioritized accurate data. region 5 had making moves to forestville elementary to herndon high school out of langley when they are regional 1. why is region 5 making recommendations for region 1? thru said they will take priorities into consideration for next maps. not their own independent ideas. wtf region 5

Wow. So forestville ES thought they were safe through the initial draft maps. Could it have been plotted to have this suggestion to come from within BRAC (aka the community) so that neither thru nor FCPS take the heat for splitting up Langley?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:fairfax matters published a detailed summary of the latest BRAC meeting. what’s really concerning is thru asked each region to list their top 10 priorities when changing boundaries. most pushed back on the changes or correcting things that make it worse. some prioritized accurate data. region 5 had making moves to forestville elementary to herndon high school out of langley when they are regional 1. why is region 5 making recommendations for region 1? thru said they will take priorities into consideration for next maps. not their own independent ideas. wtf region 5

Is there any written record of what each of these region subgroups stated as their priorities? Or are we just supposed to hope people from BRAC tell us what was said in the meeting? Are there meeting minutes that become available, or just slides that someone puts together before the meeting even starts?

[Anonymous]

Another piece of data that I’m wondering if they are looking at is enrollment in certain elementary schools that will feed into these high schools in a few years. We have elementary schools in our “over capacity HS” pyramid that are way down in enrollment. I’ve asked this question of our board member with no response.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:fairfax matters published a detailed summary of the latest BRAC meeting. what’s really concerning is thru asked each region to list their top 10 priorities when changing boundaries. most pushed back on the changes or correcting things that make it worse. some prioritized accurate data. region 5 had making moves to forestville elementary to herndon high school out of langley when they are regional 1. why is region 5 making recommendations for region 1? thru said they will take priorities into consideration for next maps. not their own independent ideas. wtf region 5

Wow. So forestville ES thought they were safe through the initial draft maps. Could it have been plotted to have this suggestion to come from within BRAC (aka the community) so that neither thru nor FCPS take the heat for splitting up Langley?

i don’t know. probably. considering the third seat given to the woodson pyramid is in region 5 and does the school boards bidding. but when the task was list your regions priorities and you make one of them destroying another pyramid in another region it should be tossed out.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:fairfax matters published a detailed summary of the latest BRAC meeting. what’s really concerning is thru asked each region to list their top 10 priorities when changing boundaries. most pushed back on the changes or correcting things that make it worse. some prioritized accurate data. region 5 had making moves to forestville elementary to herndon high school out of langley when they are regional 1. why is region 5 making recommendations for region 1? thru said they will take priorities into consideration for next maps. not their own independent ideas. wtf region 5

Wow. So forestville ES thought they were safe through the initial draft maps. Could it have been plotted to have this suggestion to come from within BRAC (aka the community) so that neither thru nor FCPS take the heat for splitting up Langley?

i don’t know. probably. considering the third seat given to the woodson pyramid is in region 5 and does the school boards bidding. but when the task was list your regions priorities and you make one of them destroying another pyramid in another region it should be tossed out.

Agree. I had to look up regions to be sure. Did not realize Woodson is region 5.

Also, some of the favorite reps of organizations may be region 5. Did organizations meet separate or in their regions?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:fairfax matters published a detailed summary of the latest BRAC meeting. what’s really concerning is thru asked each region to list their top 10 priorities when changing boundaries. most pushed back on the changes or correcting things that make it worse. some prioritized accurate data. region 5 had making moves to forestville elementary to herndon high school out of langley when they are regional 1. why is region 5 making recommendations for region 1? thru said they will take priorities into consideration for next maps. not their own independent ideas. wtf region 5

Wow. So forestville ES thought they were safe through the initial draft maps. Could it have been plotted to have this suggestion to come from within BRAC (aka the community) so that neither thru nor FCPS take the heat for splitting up Langley?

i don’t know. probably. considering the third seat given to the woodson pyramid is in region 5 and does the school boards bidding. but when the task was list your regions priorities and you make one of them destroying another pyramid in another region it should be tossed out.

It’s a stretch to see how this provides any cover at all. All it does is make our region 5 reps sound petty. I’m certain moving forestville es is not high on the list of the average region 5 family. We need better representation than this.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:fairfax matters published a detailed summary of the latest BRAC meeting. what’s really concerning is thru asked each region to list their top 10 priorities when changing boundaries. most pushed back on the changes or correcting things that make it worse. some prioritized accurate data. region 5 had making moves to forestville elementary to herndon high school out of langley when they are regional 1. why is region 5 making recommendations for region 1? thru said they will take priorities into consideration for next maps. not their own independent ideas. wtf region 5

Wow. So forestville ES thought they were safe through the initial draft maps. Could it have been plotted to have this suggestion to come from within BRAC (aka the community) so that neither thru nor FCPS take the heat for splitting up Langley?

Region 5 includes Woodson.

Woodson pyramid was inexplicably given 3 BRAC reps when almost every other pyramid just had 2.

The third Woodson rep is a longstanding Democratic activist who was apparently hand picked for the BRAC as a reward for years of shilling for the School Board.

This person hates the Langley pyramid and may well have spearheaded the weird Region 5 “priority” affecting Forestville working behind the scenes with Robyn Lady, the radical Dranesville representative from Herndon.

Absolutely bonkers stuff. Crazy that Region 5 reps would even make a recommendation affecting a different region (Region 1) and crazier still that they’d say it was one of their top 3 priorities.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:fairfax matters published a detailed summary of the latest BRAC meeting. what’s really concerning is thru asked each region to list their top 10 priorities when changing boundaries. most pushed back on the changes or correcting things that make it worse. some prioritized accurate data. region 5 had making moves to forestville elementary to herndon high school out of langley when they are regional 1. why is region 5 making recommendations for region 1? thru said they will take priorities into consideration for next maps. not their own independent ideas. wtf region 5

Wow. So forestville ES thought they were safe through the initial draft maps. Could it have been plotted to have this suggestion to come from within BRAC (aka the community) so that neither thru nor FCPS take the heat for splitting up Langley?

i don’t know. probably. considering the third seat given to the woodson pyramid is in region 5 and does the school boards bidding. but when the task was list your regions priorities and you make one of them destroying another pyramid in another region it should be tossed out.

It’s a stretch to see how this provides any cover at all. All it does is make our region 5 reps sound petty. I’m certain moving forestville es is not high on the list of the average region 5 family. We need better representation than this.

Yeah, as a parent from region 5 it’s pretty embarrassing. Especially when there are so many proposed changes that impact actual region 5 families.

But also, separating by regions is pointless, and I wish they’d stop trying to group the county this way. Marshall/Madison/McLean share a lot of split feeders, are heavily impacted by the current scenarios, but are in 3 different regions. Similarly, you have Franklin and Carson middle schools divided between region 1 and region 5.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think a good number of comments in feedback time was about looking at transfers before moving kids that rightfully live in the boundaries. So this is just showing that it wouldn’t change much if they moved transfers so they can continue with their plan.

It doesn't really show any of this because the data presentation is severely flawed


The information needs to be broken down by level (elementary, middle and high school) then by specific school to have any value.

TJ transfers needs to be completely eluminated from the data.

AP/IB and foreign language transfers for high schools need to be stand alone categories. Were AP/IB transfers even included?

This is not rocket science.

The data as presented completely hides the information necessary to make valid rezoning decisions.

[Anonymous]

Wow, why would Region 5 in the middle of the county have a “priority” of a boundary change on the far western end in Region 1, that isn’t even adjacent to their own boundaries and affects them in no way at all? The mind … it boggles. 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:fairfax matters published a detailed summary of the latest BRAC meeting. what’s really concerning is thru asked each region to list their top 10 priorities when changing boundaries. most pushed back on the changes or correcting things that make it worse. some prioritized accurate data. region 5 had making moves to forestville elementary to herndon high school out of langley when they are regional 1. why is region 5 making recommendations for region 1? thru said they will take priorities into consideration for next maps. not their own independent ideas. wtf region 5

Wow. So forestville ES thought they were safe through the initial draft maps. Could it have been plotted to have this suggestion to come from within BRAC (aka the community) so that neither thru nor FCPS take the heat for splitting up Langley?

i don’t know. probably. considering the third seat given to the woodson pyramid is in region 5 and does the school boards bidding. but when the task was list your regions priorities and you make one of them destroying another pyramid in another region it should be tossed out.

It’s a stretch to see how this provides any cover at all. All it does is make our region 5 reps sound petty. I’m certain moving forestville es is not high on the list of the average region 5 family. We need better representation than this.

Yeah, as a parent from region 5 it’s pretty embarrassing. Especially when there are so many proposed changes that impact actual region 5 families.

But also, separating by regions is pointless, and I wish they’d stop trying to group the county this way. Marshall/Madison/McLean share a lot of split feeders, are heavily impacted by the current scenarios, but are in 3 different regions. Similarly, you have Franklin and Carson middle schools divided between region 1 and region 5.

Divide and conquer. The current School Board/Superintendent are absolutely ruthless in their quest to tear up FCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow, why would Region 5 in the middle of the county have a “priority” of a boundary change on the far western end in Region 1, that isn’t even adjacent to their own boundaries and affects them in no way at all? The mind … it boggles. 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

Because now forestville ES can be moved “based off an BRAC-identified top priority”