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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The problem with the new high school is that it will trigger a massive re-districting that wouldn't just involve its feeders (Oakton, Herndon, SL, Centreville, Westfield, and Chantilly). Schools like Madison, Falls Church, Stuart, McLean, and Woodson would likely be impacted. From what I've heard, facilities hasn't figured out how the map will look. Until they come up with several possible scenarios, they can't plan to build the school. Both things need to be in place, basically.[/quote]

Nope.  There are six schools in western Fairfax with over 2300 students that can each contribute to a new school that would have over 2200 kids, and still have over 2200 kids themselves.

Whatever capacity issues exist at other schools further east can be addressed separately.  For example, if Stuart and Woodson gets too crowded, they can move kids to Annandale, and move kids from Annandale to Lee.  If Marshall and McLean get too crowded, they can move kids to Langley.  Neither would have anything to do with the new school in western Fairfax. 
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That's the issue. The other schools are over-capacity (and yes, I think this will likely involve Annandale, for example).

The current schools all have expanded capacity. The county isn't going to waste it and just reduce size. That would literally waste hundreds of millions of dollars that the county already spent.  What will likely happen is the new school will absorb capacity from its feeders, the feeders will absorb capacity from its overcrowded neighbors and so on. There's a ripple effect.

Even the feeders will be impacted. Let's look at Oakton. Yes, some of its students will be moved to the new school. But it's not going to be enough to address the 130 percent capacity issue. What will likely happen is that some of Oakton's feeders will head to Madison or South Lakes (which will probably be the biggest winner in terms of losing students to the new school).

And that's just one shuffle. When you have multiple schools feeding in, the process just expands like a web.[/quote]

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