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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The new mascot is incredibly stupid.

Why bother making it a traditional high school when she clearly wants an aviation magnet.

Just prepare for the boundaries to be nullified at a programming re-vote.[/quote]
Fortunately for us there already was a public review period and a school board vote making it a traditional school.  No matter how much fear-mongering some people try to stir up on this board a magnet isn't happening.  They are fully underway opening as a traditional school.[/quote]

This is not quite true. The county’s recent approval to allow Skyview to open as a public school was based on its initial 1000-student enrollment. If FCPS wants Skyview to operate as a traditional school with a typical, larger enrollment, it will have to come back to the county within the next year.  And if the county were to deny the follow-up application FCPS’s fall-back might be to cap enrollment and operate Skyview as a magnet or lottery school.

I know that’s not what the School board directed, and FCPS may be able to satisfy the county Skyview can accommodate more than 1000 students, but it’s somewhat misleading to claim there aren’t still uncertainties.[/quote]
How does a school transition from traditional to magnet? Do the students who are already there have to make it through the application process or be sent back to their base school?[/quote]

They won't be doing that.

Here is a quote from someone on the planning commission:

“This has really been a long road trying to find an adequate spot and the fact that this just materialized is pretty miraculous,” said Braddock District Commissioner Mary Cortina. “I just can’t envision a better scenario of being able to find a place for the school.”

Sounds to me like they will approve it in the future when the plans are set.
https://www.ffxnow.com/2026/05/20/reuse-of-private-academy-as-public-skyview-high-school-approved/#disqus_thread[/quote]

Everyone agrees the site is a good site for a high school.  But they don't have the approvals yet to serve more than 1000 kids.

The costs are a real issue.  FCPS already lied when it put out multiple statements referring to an estimated $280 million in savings, based on the difference between the initial $150 million purchase price and estimates that building a new school from scratch would cost around $430 million.  Within a few months, they were estimating it would cost over $50 million more to get Skyview ready, which means the prior statements were false and the purported savings would be $230 million, not $280 million.

The "plans" for the future are not "set" until they've done a LOT of additional work with the main Skyview building and the two shell buildings.  If the costs are even higher, their prior misrepresentation becomes even more glaring.  In addition, future county approvals are not guaranteed.  That's why they probably do have a "Plan B" (i.e., some type of smaller magnet or lottery school) that would be an exit ramp if the costs spiral or future approvals hit an obstacle (as at Centreville). [/quote]

Centreville is still not approved, as far as I know.
It is at capacity.
Westfield is at capacity.
Oakton is over capacity.
South Lakes is close to capacity.
Chantilly is way over capacity.

There is new construction in most of the area around all these schools.  (Maybe not Centreville.)

Where do you think the kids should go to school?

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