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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do Marshall, Madison and Oakton pyramids have so many overlapping split feeders compared to all of the other pyramids in fcps?
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FCPS could have aligned Madison’s boundaries with Thoreau’s, and Marshall’s with Kilmer, and thereby eliminate the middle/high split feeders. It hasn’t done so, as that would mean part of the Town of Vienna would go to Marshall, and now part of Oakton has been reassigned to Thoreau as well.  Oakton is a tougher case because the high school isn’t really close to any middle school.

If you want to avoid the split feeders, Cooper/Langley, Longfellow/McLean, Frost/Woodson and Irving/West Springfield are straight feeders, and Lake Braddock and Robinson are both 7-12 secondary schools (although some Robinson kids go to Lake Braddock for AAP).

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Or the other way round. Marshall kids could go to Kilmer instead.[/quote]

The issue is that both Thoreau and Kilmer currently sit in the Marshall district, so the cleanest alignment would have been to align the high school boundaries with the middle School boundaries. To do the opposite would mean that you’d go to Kilmer if you lived next door to Thoreau.

But it’s moot given the latest changes. There will be split feeders in that area at least until the new western high school is built.[/quote]

Agreed, but there are also houses that are assigned to Kilmer very close to Madison.[/quote]

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