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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Are you saying Emerald Chase/Bradley Farms (the neighborhood in question that is zoned for Oak Hill, Carson, and Westfield) is not an affluent neighborhood? My best friend lives there, and her house is worth around $850K-$900K. That seems fairly affluent to me![/quote]

No.  I meant the opposite.  I don't think Bradley Farms goes to Oak Hill.  I was referring to Emerald Chase that was moved to Oak Hill at that time. As I recall, Emerald Chase wanted to be redistricted to Chantilly along with the Oak Hill kids.  SB refused to do so and kept them at Westfield (I think they were already at Westfield.)  I believe they did that because they were taking too many kids from Westfield and sending them to South Lakes.  And I think they kept them there because they are affluent.

People also forget that not long before this, some of those neighborhoods had been switched from Oakton to Westfield --and then they were moved from Westfield to South Lakes.  So, some families experienced kids who attended three different high schools, even though they had not moved.

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Emerald Chase wasn't moved from Floris by the SL redistricting.  The SL redistricting only affected HS boundaries - typical FCPS redistrictings only affect a specific level - HS/MS/ES.

But... Emerald Chase was classic pre-wired FCPS redistricting.  Emerald Chase was moved from Floris to Oak Hill as part of ES redistricting driven by opening of Coates.  During Coates redistricting, FCPS claimed that Floris was on a path to overcrowding due to the then *planned* Discovery Square development - out in empty fields at the edge of Floris... nearer to the then under enrolled Lees Corner than to Floris. So, placing Discovery Square in Lees Corner wouldn't have affected any current residents at all, would have utilized Lees Corner's under enrolled facility, and would have addressed Floris' projected over enrollment issue.  But... Lees Corner wasn't on the list of ESes in the Boundary Study so the residents' suggestion that the Emerald Chase neighborhood remain in Floris where the community had always been and the then strictly future residents of the fields that became Discovery Square go to Lees Corner, could not be discussed at all because Lees Corner wasn't on FCPS's list of schools included in the Boundary Study.  So... FCPS moved Emerald Chase to Oak Hill, and Emerald Chase became the sole bit of Oak Hill ES that goes to Carson/Westfield.  Had Emerald Chase remained in Floris, it would have remained with the Floris/Carson/Westfield half of Floris.

Why half of Floris... The Floris boundary of Stu's district was West Ox as of the SL redistricting...[/quote]

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