FCPS Boundary Review Updates

[Anonymous]

Kaa is the same sq footage as CVHS, they should have a capacity of around 2000

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kaa is the same sq footage as CVHS, they should have a capacity of around 2000

+1 this is just fine for a HS. There are plenty of HS in the region that are between 2000-2200ish.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When the fall comes, look for various School Board members to make claims about how various schools need to be "right-sized." This begs the question as to the right size of an FCPS high school, a topic on which the School Board's views seem to fluctuate to serve their agendas.

Thought you might find it interesting to know the enrollments of the various high schools back in September 1995 (and I have this information in hard copy, so don't ask for a link):

Lake Braddock 2516
Robinson 2451
Chantilly 2447
Herndon 2305
Centreville 2299
Oakton 2156
West Springfield 2093
Annandale 1939
Hayfield 1865
South Lakes 1740
Fairfax 1661
Woodson 1655
Lee (now Lewis) 1653
TJ 1624
Madison 1518
West Potomac 1488
Langley 1463
Mount Vernon 1452
McLean 1379
Falls Church 1303
Stuart (now Justice) 1272
Edison 1161
Marshall 1087

Westfield and South County then got built to help with the crowding at some of the western/southwestern high schools. And you can see why they moved some kids from Herndon to Langley around this time. They toyed with the idea of closing Marshall and selling the valuable land near Tysons, but fortunately decided not to do so, which served them well once more residential growth started occurring near Tysons.

Also, for those complaining FCPS shouldn't go ahead with the KAA deal because the enrollment might be small, it's clear that its enrollment would be bigger than the enrollment of several high schools was 20 years ago.

Interesting. Just shows the need in western area. Chantilly was one of the very largest schools then--BEFORE Westfield. And, Chantilly and Westfield are two of the largest schools now. (WS may be close?) Centreville has more kids now, but Westfield was built to relieve Chantilly and Centreville.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When the fall comes, look for various School Board members to make claims about how various schools need to be "right-sized." This begs the question as to the right size of an FCPS high school, a topic on which the School Board's views seem to fluctuate to serve their agendas.

Thought you might find it interesting to know the enrollments of the various high schools back in September 1995 (and I have this information in hard copy, so don't ask for a link):

Lake Braddock 2516
Robinson 2451
Chantilly 2447
Herndon 2305
Centreville 2299
Oakton 2156
West Springfield 2093
Annandale 1939
Hayfield 1865
South Lakes 1740
Fairfax 1661
Woodson 1655
Lee (now Lewis) 1653
TJ 1624
Madison 1518
West Potomac 1488
Langley 1463
Mount Vernon 1452
McLean 1379
Falls Church 1303
Stuart (now Justice) 1272
Edison 1161
Marshall 1087

Westfield and South County then got built to help with the crowding at some of the western/southwestern high schools. And you can see why they moved some kids from Herndon to Langley around this time. They toyed with the idea of closing Marshall and selling the valuable land near Tysons, but fortunately decided not to do so, which served them well once more residential growth started occurring near Tysons.

Also, for those complaining FCPS shouldn't go ahead with the KAA deal because the enrollment might be small, it's clear that its enrollment would be bigger than the enrollment of several high schools was 20 years ago.

Interesting. Just shows the need in western area. Chantilly was one of the very largest schools then--BEFORE Westfield. And, Chantilly and Westfield are two of the largest schools now. (WS may be close?) Centreville has more kids now, but Westfield was built to relieve Chantilly and Centreville.

Oakton kids also moved to Westfield when it opened.

If you are pivoting to current enrollments, as of June 2025 it was as follows:

Lake Braddock 2947
Chantilly 2937
West Springfield 2781
Westfield 2699
Oakton 2607
West Potomac 2606
Robinson 2494
Woodson 2420
McLean 2414
South Lakes 2406
Fairfax 2367
Edison 2284
Justice 2284
Centreville 2281
Hayfield 2253
Marshall 2190
Herndon 2181
Langley 2180
Annandale 2101
TJ 2098
South County 2087
Madison 2077
Falls Church 2070
Mount Vernon 1823
Lewis 1622

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When the fall comes, look for various School Board members to make claims about how various schools need to be "right-sized." This begs the question as to the right size of an FCPS high school, a topic on which the School Board's views seem to fluctuate to serve their agendas.

Thought you might find it interesting to know the enrollments of the various high schools back in September 1995 (and I have this information in hard copy, so don't ask for a link):

Lake Braddock 2516
Robinson 2451
Chantilly 2447
Herndon 2305
Centreville 2299
Oakton 2156
West Springfield 2093
Annandale 1939
Hayfield 1865
South Lakes 1740
Fairfax 1661
Woodson 1655
Lee (now Lewis) 1653
TJ 1624
Madison 1518
West Potomac 1488
Langley 1463
Mount Vernon 1452
McLean 1379
Falls Church 1303
Stuart (now Justice) 1272
Edison 1161
Marshall 1087

Westfield and South County then got built to help with the crowding at some of the western/southwestern high schools. And you can see why they moved some kids from Herndon to Langley around this time. They toyed with the idea of closing Marshall and selling the valuable land near Tysons, but fortunately decided not to do so, which served them well once more residential growth started occurring near Tysons.

Also, for those complaining FCPS shouldn't go ahead with the KAA deal because the enrollment might be small, it's clear that its enrollment would be bigger than the enrollment of several high schools was 20 years ago.

Interesting. Just shows the need in western area. Chantilly was one of the very largest schools then--BEFORE Westfield. And, Chantilly and Westfield are two of the largest schools now. (WS may be close?) Centreville has more kids now, but Westfield was built to relieve Chantilly and Centreville.

Oakton kids also moved to Westfield when it opened.

If you are pivoting to current enrollments, as of June 2025 it was as follows:

Lake Braddock 2947
Chantilly 2937
West Springfield 2781
Westfield 2699
Oakton 2607
West Potomac 2606
Robinson 2494
Woodson 2420
McLean 2414
South Lakes 2406
Fairfax 2367
Edison 2284
Justice 2284
Centreville 2281
Hayfield 2253
Marshall 2190
Herndon 2181
Langley 2180
Annandale 2101
TJ 2098
South County 2087
Madison 2077
Falls Church 2070
Mount Vernon 1823
Lewis 1622

True. I had forgotten about that. However, many of them were not there for long. They were moved to South Lakes during the 2008 boundary shift. The number of neighborhoods moved from Oakton still at Westfield is small.

[Anonymous]

Lee had grown to around 2100 in 2005 before a boatload of students were removed when South County opened.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lee had grown to around 2100 in 2005 before a boatload of students were removed when South County opened.

Looks like Lewis is back to its historical size.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lee had grown to around 2100 in 2005 before a boatload of students were removed when South County opened.

Looks like Lewis is back to its historical size.

Being small, poor, and heavily ESL is separating Lewis from most of the high schools in FCPS (in a bad way). Mount Vernon as well as it appears to be shrinking faster than Lewis.

[Anonymous]

Is Lake Braddocks number include 7th-8th or just HS?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is Lake Braddocks number include 7th-8th or just HS?

Same question- are these secondary schools numbers full school number or just the HS population? If so, why would moving kids to LBSS be a good idea? Neighborhoods don’t want to bounce back and forth between schools every time they do a review.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is Lake Braddocks number include 7th-8th or just HS?

Just high school


LB middle school has around 700+ students per grade

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is Lake Braddocks number include 7th-8th or just HS?

Just the 9-12 enrollments. Same for the two other secondary schools (Hayfield and Robinson).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lee had grown to around 2100 in 2005 before a boatload of students were removed when South County opened.

Looks like Lewis is back to its historical size.

As of 1995. Schools have had different enrollments at different times in the past. Enrollments were low in the mid-90s. But the 1995 numbers show they were willing to keep Marshall open with under 1100 kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lee had grown to around 2100 in 2005 before a boatload of students were removed when South County opened.

Looks like Lewis is back to its historical size.

As of 1995. Schools have had different enrollments at different times in the past. Enrollments were low in the mid-90s. But the 1995 numbers show they were willing to keep Marshall open with under 1100 kids.

The average school had a much lower enrollment. And I can bet that Marshall did not have a 55% FR lunch rate or a 35% ESL rate. These things make a tremendous difference.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lee had grown to around 2100 in 2005 before a boatload of students were removed when South County opened.

Looks like Lewis is back to its historical size.

As of 1995. Schools have had different enrollments at different times in the past. Enrollments were low in the mid-90s. But the 1995 numbers show they were willing to keep Marshall open with under 1100 kids.

The average school had a much lower enrollment. And I can bet that Marshall did not have a 55% FR lunch rate or a 35% ESL rate. These things make a tremendous difference.

I don't have that information, but you are no doubt correct, although Marshall was in the bottom half of FCPS high schools in the 1990s. By the early 2000s it was performing better than most FCPS high schools due to new, more expensive residential growth near Tysons. Pimmit Hills also started to see a ton of tear-down activity that continues to this day.