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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Edison general education enrollment for 2024-25 was 2,111.

West Springfield general education enrollment was 2,528.

Lewis was 1,474 students, despite being boarded on both sides by huge student populations.

Even Mount Vernon, which is another under-populated school, had 1,618.

Why would the school board peel off additional students from Lewis?

It's not just AP versus IB. The school is starting to become too small to keep its sports teams fully populated, to have enough kids go into its music and drama programs. It doesn't have the depth of student population to feed into its programs. Which starts to create a spiral of people transfering out of the school, which makes the school smaller, which leads to fewer kids to go into programs, and more kids transferring out.

If the school board wants to close Lewis, the surrounding neighborhoods need to be prepared to take in an influx of students. [/quote]

Lewis has almost 300 students transferring to other schools.

How many of that 300 are from that Rolling Valley neighborhood getting rezoned to WSHS?

Dozens?

A hundred?

It will NOT be "just 20 students" added to WSHS from that neighborhood.

FCPS needs to release the number of Lewis students living in that neighborhood who currently pupil place to other schools.

That transfer number was overlooked when Daventry was moved to WSHS from Lewis, which resulted in the actual number of new WSHS students being many times more the "fewer than 20" students used to justify the rezoning.

The number of high school students in that neighborhood who will switch to WSHS far exceeds the 20 students currently attending Lewis.[/quote]

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