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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just flipping through FCPS CIP 2023-2027 and saw that $10 million is assigned to "South West County HS" for the site acquisition.  This is in addition to the $13.5 million for Western High School.

So what is this South West County HS???  Are the FCPS thinking about adding TWO high schools?

By the way the 2026–27 Capacity Utilization projection also shows that the most crowded schools would be Chantilly and Centreville High Schools, two schools that are located in the Southwestern area.

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This came up during the School Board meeting where Jeff Platenberg gave the CIP presentation.  Elaine Tholen specifically asked about this (it's a topic of interest if you live in Great Falls) and Platenberg said this only refers to one high school.

My take-away is that the project was described differently in two different bonds and FCPS now effectively has a total of $23.5M earmarked for site acquisition for a new high school somewhere in the western part of the county.  People can continue to debate whether it will actually get built. [/quote]

Thanks.  I think it's politically much easier to build a new HS in Southwestern area, somewhere in Centerville or Clifton, which would probably mean no boundary changes for Herndon and Great Falls areas.

The proposed CIP for 2023-2027 projects that Herndon, Langley, Oakton, South Lakes and Westfield would be at or under capacity for 2026-2027.   It also omits the usual language that the new school in the western area of the county would provide capacity relief for high schools in the Centreville, Chantilly, Herndon, Oakton, South Lakes, and Westfield areas.

So it looks like if a new high school is ever built, it's going to be in the Southwestern area.  In other words, Langley parents will score another win.

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Hard to say.  If you look at the FCPS on the potential student yield from new and approved housing units, the largest number of additional high school students would be coming from the areas zoned for Westfield near the Phase 2 Silver Line stations and the third largest would be coming from new development in Reston feeding into South Lakes (Marshall and McLean would pick up the second and fourth highest numbers from Tysons developments).  Not sure how much of that is reflected in the 2023-2027 projections.

So, depending on what actually gets built, there could be enrollment pressure in other parts of the county besides southwestern Fairfax in the coming years. [/quote]

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