King Abdullah Academy Closing: FCPS Buy for HS?

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Anonymous wrote:Anybody else want to put chances of each ES going to the new HS

Floris : 100% (Literally in Floris district lines)
Oak Hill : 95% (Very Small chance staying Chantilly with overcrowding there)
McNair : 90% (Small chance of staying Westfield or going to Herndon)
Coates : 85% (Small chance of staying Westfield or going to Herndon)
Crossfield : (75%)
Fox Mill : (65%)

Honestly both Crossfield and Fox Mill could go to South Lakes instead of the new HS and petty equidistant from those two options. However, it is easier to backfill Oakton with growth in Tysons. Hence higher chance of Crossfield being moved. Also Meren represents all of Fox Mill but only a fraction of Crossfield hence, the only option she has to protect South Lakes it to retain Fox Mill.

Floris: 100% (no brianer)
Coates: 100% (no brainer)
McNair: 90% (very likely)
FMES: 70% (the question is Meren)
Crossfield: 33% (Honestly, Oakton will be still better than the new HS)
Oak Hill: 50% (OHS’s probem is the middle school. It is very close to Franklin and should stay at Franklin and I don’t know if they create a new split feeder)

I am not sure I follow Oak Hill at 50%. Floris and Oak Hill are the two closest schools to KAA. Add in that they are trying to mange Chantilly’s capacity. I think it’s more like 90% Oak Hill gets moved to KAA. That will allow them to keep all the other neighborhoods being proposed to switch out of Chantilly by Thru at Chantilly.

They do have a problem at the middle school level, but they could fix that a few ways depending on who else ends up at KAA.

Easy. Make Franklin an AAP center which pulls kids back to Franklin, then rezone Oak Hill to Carson.

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Anonymous wrote:This would be so much easier if the School Board would eliminate IB at South Lakes. A lot of parents really don't like it.

For some reason, the SB members looooove IB and are always gassing it up. It hits a lot of educational buzzwords that certain advocacy groups love. “Lifelong learners” and “global citizens.”

If FCPS is required to keep the number of IB high schools the same, they could possibly move IB from SLHS to the future West County HS. Moreover, if KAA’s IB students already live close to the academy, then they could easily continue with the IB Program. Of course, I have no idea how many KAA students live near the academy. And FCPS would have to engage with the feeder school communities on the pros/cons of moving IB out of one high school and into a new one.

Why would they do that?

Right now, none of what appear to be the likely feeder schools attend an IB school. I doubt seriously if the families would want an IB school.
Westfield does have 36 attending South Lakes, but that may be because of friend groups from Carson or proximity.
Oakton has 13. Could be the same reason. Or language?

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Anonymous wrote:This would be so much easier if the School Board would eliminate IB at South Lakes. A lot of parents really don't like it.

For some reason, the SB members looooove IB and are always gassing it up. It hits a lot of educational buzzwords that certain advocacy groups love. “Lifelong learners” and “global citizens.”

If FCPS is required to keep the number of IB high schools the same, they could possibly move IB from SLHS to the future West County HS. Moreover, if KAA’s IB students already live close to the academy, then they could easily continue with the IB Program. Of course, I have no idea how many KAA students live near the academy. And FCPS would have to engage with the feeder school communities on the pros/cons of moving IB out of one high school and into a new one.

Something tells me that the current KAA students aren’t going to be slumming it at public school. Lol.

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Anonymous wrote:Anybody else want to put chances of each ES going to the new HS

Floris : 100% (Literally in Floris district lines)
Oak Hill : 95% (Very Small chance staying Chantilly with overcrowding there)
McNair : 90% (Small chance of staying Westfield or going to Herndon)
Coates : 85% (Small chance of staying Westfield or going to Herndon)
Crossfield : (75%)
Fox Mill : (65%)

Honestly both Crossfield and Fox Mill could go to South Lakes instead of the new HS and petty equidistant from those two options. However, it is easier to backfill Oakton with growth in Tysons. Hence higher chance of Crossfield being moved. Also Meren represents all of Fox Mill but only a fraction of Crossfield hence, the only option she has to protect South Lakes it to retain Fox Mill.

Floris: 100% (no brianer)
Coates: 100% (no brainer)
McNair: 90% (very likely)
FMES: 70% (the question is Meren)
Crossfield: 33% (Honestly, Oakton will be still better than the new HS)
Oak Hill: 50% (OHS’s probem is the middle school. It is very close to Franklin and should stay at Franklin and I don’t know if they create a new split feeder)

I am not sure I follow Oak Hill at 50%. Floris and Oak Hill are the two closest schools to KAA. Add in that they are trying to mange Chantilly’s capacity. I think it’s more like 90% Oak Hill gets moved to KAA. That will allow them to keep all the other neighborhoods being proposed to switch out of Chantilly by Thru at Chantilly.

They do have a problem at the middle school level, but they could fix that a few ways depending on who else ends up at KAA.

Easy. Make Franklin an AAP center which pulls kids back to Franklin, then rezone Oak Hill to Carson.

Carson is a pretty big middle school. Its capacity is 1300 students, which would make a feeder high school 2600 students if they all came from the base school. KAA is speculated to have a capacity closer to 2000 based on square footage, so the fact Carson has so many AAP transfers actually works in balancing the MS/HS capacity miss match.

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Anonymous wrote:This would be so much easier if the School Board would eliminate IB at South Lakes. A lot of parents really don't like it.

For some reason, the SB members looooove IB and are always gassing it up. It hits a lot of educational buzzwords that certain advocacy groups love. “Lifelong learners” and “global citizens.”

If FCPS is required to keep the number of IB high schools the same, they could possibly move IB from SLHS to the future West County HS. Moreover, if KAA’s IB students already live close to the academy, then they could easily continue with the IB Program. Of course, I have no idea how many KAA students live near the academy. And FCPS would have to engage with the feeder school communities on the pros/cons of moving IB out of one high school and into a new one.

Something tells me that the current KAA students aren’t going to be slumming it at public school. Lol.

Actually, the new high school will likely have a pretty diverse population. It is quite unlikely to have Langley demographics.

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Anonymous wrote:This would be so much easier if the School Board would eliminate IB at South Lakes. A lot of parents really don't like it.

For some reason, the SB members looooove IB and are always gassing it up. It hits a lot of educational buzzwords that certain advocacy groups love. “Lifelong learners” and “global citizens.”

If FCPS is required to keep the number of IB high schools the same, they could possibly move IB from SLHS to the future West County HS. Moreover, if KAA’s IB students already live close to the academy, then they could easily continue with the IB Program. Of course, I have no idea how many KAA students live near the academy. And FCPS would have to engage with the feeder school communities on the pros/cons of moving IB out of one high school and into a new one.

Something tells me that the current KAA students aren’t going to be slumming it at public school. Lol.

Actually, the new high school will likely have a pretty diverse population. It is quite unlikely to have Langley demographics.

It definitely will but I don’t think it’s going to have a lot of kids who would have previously been attending a Muslim religious school run by a foreign embassy.

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Anonymous wrote:This would be so much easier if the School Board would eliminate IB at South Lakes. A lot of parents really don't like it.

For some reason, the SB members looooove IB and are always gassing it up. It hits a lot of educational buzzwords that certain advocacy groups love. “Lifelong learners” and “global citizens.”

If FCPS is required to keep the number of IB high schools the same, they could possibly move IB from SLHS to the future West County HS. Moreover, if KAA’s IB students already live close to the academy, then they could easily continue with the IB Program. Of course, I have no idea how many KAA students live near the academy. And FCPS would have to engage with the feeder school communities on the pros/cons of moving IB out of one high school and into a new one.

There is no requirement for FCPS to maintain a certain number of IB schools. However, the IBO approves the schools authorized to award IB diplomas, so FCPS would need to apply separately for "West County HS" to offer IB and the IBO might be less inclined to approve the application if FCPS was abandoning another IB program.

In any event, the communities most likely to feed into the new school would prefer AP. Former KAA famiies really are on their own if they want to continue with IB for their kids.

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Anonymous wrote:This would be so much easier if the School Board would eliminate IB at South Lakes. A lot of parents really don't like it.

For some reason, the SB members looooove IB and are always gassing it up. It hits a lot of educational buzzwords that certain advocacy groups love. “Lifelong learners” and “global citizens.”

If FCPS is required to keep the number of IB high schools the same, they could possibly move IB from SLHS to the future West County HS. Moreover, if KAA’s IB students already live close to the academy, then they could easily continue with the IB Program. Of course, I have no idea how many KAA students live near the academy. And FCPS would have to engage with the feeder school communities on the pros/cons of moving IB out of one high school and into a new one.

There is no requirement for FCPS to maintain a certain number of IB schools. However, the IBO approves the schools authorized to award IB diplomas, so FCPS would need to apply separately for "West County HS" to offer IB and the IBO might be less inclined to approve the application if FCPS was abandoning another IB program.

In any event, the communities most likely to feed into the new school would prefer AP. Former KAA famiies really are on their own if they want to continue with IB for their kids.

I'm not sure there are many KAA families in the area. I live near it and I don't know any. I've not seen anyone on here post that they knew any of them. From what I read, KAA is helping them with "online IB" to finish the program.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m thrilled about this. We are in Fox Mill/Carson and the transition from Carson to SLHS where our neighborhood kids are a minority is awful. I am hoping very much that our neighborhood along with RCMS area will go to this new school.

It’s going to very interesting to see what they do if they make this a general HS. Fox Mill is a big neighborhood. They may not want to pull it out of SLHS. There is also the reducing transportation time vs. reducing split feeder issue. I don’t see how they solve both because the new HS won’t have room for everyone. Look at
who people think should attend this new school… Fox Mill, Emerald Chase, Franklin Farm, Chantilly Highlands, who else? There’s isn’t room for everyone so someone is either keeping their long commute to Oakton or staying at Westfield or South Lakes

Fox Mill used to go to Oakton and South Lakes was just fine without it.

Actually it wasn’t; hence, the large boundary change in 2008.

And then South Lakes got expanded after that outside the renovation queue.

Fox Mill isn’t that far from South Lakes and should stay there. If anything they should look to adjust the boundaries so it goes to Hughes as well.

The last thing anyone should be implying is that we need to build an addition to KAA before the sale has even closed.

Why? The Western HS was proposed to relieve SLHS, Oakton, Westfield, and Chantilly. Basically Caron is going to feed the new school instead of three or four way split.

South Lakes isn't overcrowded like Chantilly, no one travels as far to South Lakes as Crossfield travels to Oakton, and capacity at the new school may be limited. So, nice try (again), but I wouldn't assume that everyone currently zoned to Carson will feed to this school. Boundaries may change, and they may conclude they still need some split feeders, even if they can reduce the three-way split at Carson.

LOL, I'm not trying anything difficult. Read past CIPs to understand why the new high school was proposed. Check how close Carson MS is to the new HS.

Don't overcomplicate it.

It's complicated by the fact that Carson has a large capacity for a MS and the new school would appear to have a small capacity for a HS.

Also, reducing student commutes to Oakton may take priority over sending everyone now at Carson to the new HS.

Sorry if reality bites.

No worries, it won’t bite.

Carson MS will be a feeder school for the new HS, just like Herndon MS to Herndon HS, Hughes MS to South Lakes HS, Johnson MS to Fairfax HS, and Cooper MS to Langley HS.

If you lack common sense, just wait and see.

Or it could remain a split feeder like it has been, and like Franklin, Thoreau, Holmes, Poe, and Kilmer have been.

You're the one making assumptions that at this point are premature.

Nice spin.

You are the one making a claim that Fox Mill should stay in SLHS. I am just pointing out that’s very unlikely. Hopefully, you are not too dumb to understand this.

How close are the middle schools you listed to the nearest high school? Do you know the distance between Carson Middle School and the new high school?

It is 0.5 miles.

Given that South Lakes isn't overcrowded like Chantilly, and the distance from Fox Mill to South Lakes is much shorter than the distance from Crossfield to Oakton, it's quite likely. Sorry.

Here you go.

So the bottomline is you just don’t want Fox Mill to be assigned to the new school.

Wait and see.

It's not that I don't want Fox Mill to be assigned to the new school. It's that making sure Oak Hill goes there to address overcrowding at Chantilly and Crossfield goes there to shorten the long commute to Oakton should be higher priorities.

You, on the other hand, are trying to get assurances now that everyone currently at Carson will go there. That is simply premature.

Again, I'm sorry you dislike South Lakes so much.

Don't be ridiculous.

When did I say I dislike SLHS? I personally like the IB program at SLHS.

But, it makes far more sense for current Carson kids to attend the new school than your absurd idea.

Look at the map. Why should Oak Hill and Crossfield kids go to the new school while Fox Mill kids stay at SLHS? Do you really think that makes sense?

Stop being sorry and get some common sense.

It clearly makes sense to send Oak Hill and Crossfield kids there and if necessary keep Fox Mill kids at South Lakes since the priorities should be reducing overcrowding at Chantilly and reducing long commutes to Oakton.

It appears you didn't bother to listen to what the School Board members voting in favor of this purchase had to say. That's what they were focusing on, not changing the SLHS boundaries. It's sad we've invested so much in South Lakes over the years only for people to try and avoid it when it's nearby and not overcrowded.

Oak Hill doesn’t even go to Carson, and the school board is already working on reducing the overload at Chantilly.

Crossfield is closer to SLHS and farther from the new high school compared to Fox Mill. If anything, they should send Crossfield to SLHS instead of Fox Mill. Isn’t that obvious?

You lose all credibility by insisting Oak Hill and Crossfield kids go to the new school while Fox Mill kids stay at SLHS. I don’t see it happening.

You sound like you don’t live here or don’t understand that Crossfield is much further away from Oakton than Fox Mill is from South Lakes. Why would they disrupt two entire communities to make this change instead of one, dummy?

DP. I DO live in the area and am familiar with all these neighborhoods and all these schools. Sounds like you are not.

1. None of us know how this would end up, but several posters are leaving out some details:
McNair and Coates will likely attend this school
2. All of Floris will likely attend this school. Remember McNair, Coates, and Floris send kids to Westfield. Westfield is isolated from the community neighborhoods by commercial and industrial areas--along with Dulles Airport. The commute is also not an easy one during rush hour. 28 is a nightmare.
3. Oak Hill (which, by the way is the closest elementary school and neighborhood to the Carson/KAA site) currently attends Chantilly. THRU plans to split this neighborhood and send a good portion of it to Oakton. The Oak Hill community is not happy about this. It splits the neighborhood and sends a good portion of it thirty minutes away--going from a short commute to a thirty minute commtute. KAA is basically across the street.
4. Discovery Square--which attends Floris--is also right by the KAA site.
5. PP--who claims that Crossfield is further away than Fox Mill--is stretching the issue because most of Crossfield's attendance zone is just as close to KAA as Fox Mill. If she really were familiar with the area, she would realize that Franklin Farm on the other side of 286 would likely go down Franklin Farm Rd to Centreville. They could turn on Wall or McLearen to get there. They would be driving through neighborhoods that likely will also attend the KAA site.

Again, none of us know how this will play out. I could see Emerald Chase once again going to Oak Hill and Carson and KAA, but I don't know. And, neither do any of us.

I don't see Fox Mill being at the top of the list. But, I may be wrong. South Lakes does not appear to need relief at this time and Fox Mill is equidistant to South Lakes and Carson--though some neighborhoods are closer to Carson. Neither is far.

If I were the School Board, my first goal would be to eliminate the long bus ride to Oakton and the bus ride/isolation to Westfield. Overcrowding at Chantilly has repeatedly been given a priority and I THINK it is very likely Oak Hill will attend KAA.

This creates a contiguous boundary. It eliminates split neighborhoods and split feeder elementary schools.

Fox Mill to new HS: 3.3 miles
Crossfield to new HS: 5.3 miles

AGAIN - not talking about the actual schools, talking about where kids live now compared to current high school.

Of course. In general Fox Mill kids live closer than Crossfield kids. Look at the map. The traffic is also easy for Fox Mill kids thanks to Pinecrest rd.

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Anonymous wrote:I must say, I'm wondering if some of the most vicious pro-rezoning people (only where other people's kids are concerned, of course) are now finding themselves in an unsavory position - either potential rezoning to a less desirable school or not being zoned to the new and more desirable one.

It's fun to pop my popcorn and watch karma come back around.

Is the new HS really “less desirable?” It’s a nice, brand new building filled with the kids who are already at Carson (most likely). And doesn’t come with a long commute to Oakton if you’re in that situation.

My expectation is it is going to be more desirable than Westfield and SLHS but less desirable than Oakton.

Just my thought.

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Anonymous wrote:This would be so much easier if the School Board would eliminate IB at South Lakes. A lot of parents really don't like it.

For some reason, the SB members looooove IB and are always gassing it up. It hits a lot of educational buzzwords that certain advocacy groups love. “Lifelong learners” and “global citizens.”

Honestly, FCPS needs to get rid of IB altogether. Fewer kids graduate with an IB Diploma then transfer out of the IB schools to go to an AP school. Not enough people don’t take advantage of the program for what it costs and most people would be happy to see it go away. The people who stay at IB schools without getting the diploma tend not to care either way, until their kid goes to college and can’t get credit for the 1 or 2 IB SL classes that they took. Then they complain about not having AP at the school, at least that has been our experience.

No idea why cutting IB has not been a budget saving option. I would guess that would cover the cost of a good number of teachers, aids, and monitors that are being cut due to the budget issues.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m thrilled about this. We are in Fox Mill/Carson and the transition from Carson to SLHS where our neighborhood kids are a minority is awful. I am hoping very much that our neighborhood along with RCMS area will go to this new school.

It’s going to very interesting to see what they do if they make this a general HS. Fox Mill is a big neighborhood. They may not want to pull it out of SLHS. There is also the reducing transportation time vs. reducing split feeder issue. I don’t see how they solve both because the new HS won’t have room for everyone. Look at
who people think should attend this new school… Fox Mill, Emerald Chase, Franklin Farm, Chantilly Highlands, who else? There’s isn’t room for everyone so someone is either keeping their long commute to Oakton or staying at Westfield or South Lakes

Fox Mill used to go to Oakton and South Lakes was just fine without it.

Actually it wasn’t; hence, the large boundary change in 2008.

And then South Lakes got expanded after that outside the renovation queue.

Fox Mill isn’t that far from South Lakes and should stay there. If anything they should look to adjust the boundaries so it goes to Hughes as well.

The last thing anyone should be implying is that we need to build an addition to KAA before the sale has even closed.

Why? The Western HS was proposed to relieve SLHS, Oakton, Westfield, and Chantilly. Basically Caron is going to feed the new school instead of three or four way split.

South Lakes isn't overcrowded like Chantilly, no one travels as far to South Lakes as Crossfield travels to Oakton, and capacity at the new school may be limited. So, nice try (again), but I wouldn't assume that everyone currently zoned to Carson will feed to this school. Boundaries may change, and they may conclude they still need some split feeders, even if they can reduce the three-way split at Carson.

LOL, I'm not trying anything difficult. Read past CIPs to understand why the new high school was proposed. Check how close Carson MS is to the new HS.

Don't overcomplicate it.

It's complicated by the fact that Carson has a large capacity for a MS and the new school would appear to have a small capacity for a HS.

Also, reducing student commutes to Oakton may take priority over sending everyone now at Carson to the new HS.

Sorry if reality bites.

No worries, it won’t bite.

Carson MS will be a feeder school for the new HS, just like Herndon MS to Herndon HS, Hughes MS to South Lakes HS, Johnson MS to Fairfax HS, and Cooper MS to Langley HS.

If you lack common sense, just wait and see.

Or it could remain a split feeder like it has been, and like Franklin, Thoreau, Holmes, Poe, and Kilmer have been.

You're the one making assumptions that at this point are premature.

Nice spin.

You are the one making a claim that Fox Mill should stay in SLHS. I am just pointing out that’s very unlikely. Hopefully, you are not too dumb to understand this.

How close are the middle schools you listed to the nearest high school? Do you know the distance between Carson Middle School and the new high school?

It is 0.5 miles.

Given that South Lakes isn't overcrowded like Chantilly, and the distance from Fox Mill to South Lakes is much shorter than the distance from Crossfield to Oakton, it's quite likely. Sorry.

Here you go.

So the bottomline is you just don’t want Fox Mill to be assigned to the new school.

Wait and see.

It's not that I don't want Fox Mill to be assigned to the new school. It's that making sure Oak Hill goes there to address overcrowding at Chantilly and Crossfield goes there to shorten the long commute to Oakton should be higher priorities.

You, on the other hand, are trying to get assurances now that everyone currently at Carson will go there. That is simply premature.

Again, I'm sorry you dislike South Lakes so much.

Don't be ridiculous.

When did I say I dislike SLHS? I personally like the IB program at SLHS.

But, it makes far more sense for current Carson kids to attend the new school than your absurd idea.

Look at the map. Why should Oak Hill and Crossfield kids go to the new school while Fox Mill kids stay at SLHS? Do you really think that makes sense?

Stop being sorry and get some common sense.

It clearly makes sense to send Oak Hill and Crossfield kids there and if necessary keep Fox Mill kids at South Lakes since the priorities should be reducing overcrowding at Chantilly and reducing long commutes to Oakton.

It appears you didn't bother to listen to what the School Board members voting in favor of this purchase had to say. That's what they were focusing on, not changing the SLHS boundaries. It's sad we've invested so much in South Lakes over the years only for people to try and avoid it when it's nearby and not overcrowded.

Oak Hill doesn’t even go to Carson, and the school board is already working on reducing the overload at Chantilly.

Crossfield is closer to SLHS and farther from the new high school compared to Fox Mill. If anything, they should send Crossfield to SLHS instead of Fox Mill. Isn’t that obvious?

You lose all credibility by insisting Oak Hill and Crossfield kids go to the new school while Fox Mill kids stay at SLHS. I don’t see it happening.

You sound like you don’t live here or don’t understand that Crossfield is much further away from Oakton than Fox Mill is from South Lakes. Why would they disrupt two entire communities to make this change instead of one, dummy?

DP. I DO live in the area and am familiar with all these neighborhoods and all these schools. Sounds like you are not.

1. None of us know how this would end up, but several posters are leaving out some details:
McNair and Coates will likely attend this school
2. All of Floris will likely attend this school. Remember McNair, Coates, and Floris send kids to Westfield. Westfield is isolated from the community neighborhoods by commercial and industrial areas--along with Dulles Airport. The commute is also not an easy one during rush hour. 28 is a nightmare.
3. Oak Hill (which, by the way is the closest elementary school and neighborhood to the Carson/KAA site) currently attends Chantilly. THRU plans to split this neighborhood and send a good portion of it to Oakton. The Oak Hill community is not happy about this. It splits the neighborhood and sends a good portion of it thirty minutes away--going from a short commute to a thirty minute commtute. KAA is basically across the street.
4. Discovery Square--which attends Floris--is also right by the KAA site.
5. PP--who claims that Crossfield is further away than Fox Mill--is stretching the issue because most of Crossfield's attendance zone is just as close to KAA as Fox Mill. If she really were familiar with the area, she would realize that Franklin Farm on the other side of 286 would likely go down Franklin Farm Rd to Centreville. They could turn on Wall or McLearen to get there. They would be driving through neighborhoods that likely will also attend the KAA site.

Again, none of us know how this will play out. I could see Emerald Chase once again going to Oak Hill and Carson and KAA, but I don't know. And, neither do any of us.

I don't see Fox Mill being at the top of the list. But, I may be wrong. South Lakes does not appear to need relief at this time and Fox Mill is equidistant to South Lakes and Carson--though some neighborhoods are closer to Carson. Neither is far.

If I were the School Board, my first goal would be to eliminate the long bus ride to Oakton and the bus ride/isolation to Westfield. Overcrowding at Chantilly has repeatedly been given a priority and I THINK it is very likely Oak Hill will attend KAA.

This creates a contiguous boundary. It eliminates split neighborhoods and split feeder elementary schools.

Fox Mill to new HS: 3.3 miles
Crossfield to new HS: 5.3 miles

AGAIN - not talking about the actual schools, talking about where kids live now compared to current high school.

Of course. In general Fox Mill kids live closer than Crossfield kids. Look at the map. The traffic is also easy for Fox Mill kids thanks to Pinecrest rd.

It is a wash. Some Fox Mill live closer than some Crossfield kids and some Crossfield kids live closer than some Fox Mill kids.
The question is: will they move Crossfield from Oakton? If so, Crossfield goes to KAA. That seems likely to me, but I don't live in Crossfield boundary or Fox Mill. And, I am not on the School Board--which is what counts.

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Anonymous wrote:This would be so much easier if the School Board would eliminate IB at South Lakes. A lot of parents really don't like it.

For some reason, the SB members looooove IB and are always gassing it up. It hits a lot of educational buzzwords that certain advocacy groups love. “Lifelong learners” and “global citizens.”

If FCPS is required to keep the number of IB high schools the same, they could possibly move IB from SLHS to the future West County HS. Moreover, if KAA’s IB students already live close to the academy, then they could easily continue with the IB Program. Of course, I have no idea how many KAA students live near the academy. And FCPS would have to engage with the feeder school communities on the pros/cons of moving IB out of one high school and into a new one.

Something tells me that the current KAA students aren’t going to be slumming it at public school. Lol.

Actually, the new high school will likely have a pretty diverse population. It is quite unlikely to have Langley demographics.

Isn’t Langley close to majority minority? Oh I see, you only count certain races in your quotas. How very racist of you.

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Moving Crossfield so the kids there are traveling shorter distances could align with changes to other boundaries to send kids to schools closer to their homes.

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Anonymous wrote:This would be so much easier if the School Board would eliminate IB at South Lakes. A lot of parents really don't like it.

For some reason, the SB members looooove IB and are always gassing it up. It hits a lot of educational buzzwords that certain advocacy groups love. “Lifelong learners” and “global citizens.”

If FCPS is required to keep the number of IB high schools the same, they could possibly move IB from SLHS to the future West County HS. Moreover, if KAA’s IB students already live close to the academy, then they could easily continue with the IB Program. Of course, I have no idea how many KAA students live near the academy. And FCPS would have to engage with the feeder school communities on the pros/cons of moving IB out of one high school and into a new one.

Something tells me that the current KAA students aren’t going to be slumming it at public school. Lol.

Actually, the new high school will likely have a pretty diverse population. It is quite unlikely to have Langley demographics.

Isn’t Langley close to majority minority? Oh I see, you only count certain races in your quotas. How very racist of you.

No. I was talking about FARMS and non English speakers.