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[quote=Anonymous]I’m OP, not at Lewis, and simply think it speaks poorly of FCPS that Lewis with under 1700 kids last month is so close to West Springfield with 2650.

You or another WS poster took that as if I were saying FCPS should redistrict now but I wasn’t suggesting that. After all WSHS has already been expanded and perhaps no one should be reassigned to Lewis without a deeper dive into why it’s chronically under-enrolled.

I do think FCPS planning is atrocious and the School Board inattentive.  West Springfield was renovated around the same time as Marshall.  West Springfield was expanded to about 2500 seats and Marshall to about 2100, but it’s Marshall that pulls from over 1/2 of growing Tysons.  So why was more spent on WS?  Similarly they just expanded Madison to 2500 seats but are leaving McLean with under 2000 permanent seats, even though McLean picks up the rest of Tysons and the growth in Vienna is much lower.  And nothing is being done for Chantilly right now - Stella Pekarsky was the Chair of the School Board for a year and wasted an opportunity to have a bully pulpit about the overcrowding there.

It seems to me that if FCPS had competent leadership and oversight they’d be analyzing why they have misallocated resources and figuring out how to make better decisions in the future.  But they are too focused on politics to pay much attention to operations.

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