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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is one of the smaller FCPS schools so it is easier to make teams and ECs.[/quote]

There are 25 regular/magnet high schools in FCPS.  Fairfax is #14 in terms of enrollment.

It used to be bigger but the City of Fairfax pushed some county kids out about a decade ago and they ended up at Woodson and Oakton instead.

That left Fairfax with an attendance island in the western part of the county that is closer to Centreville and Chantilly, but zoned for Fairfax.[/quote]

I don't think the "city" pushed them out. It occurred as part of a regular boundary change. [/quote]

That is not correct.  Fairfax City owns Fairfax HS and several other schools in the City of Fairfax.  Fairfax City contracts with FCPS to operate Fairfax HS and, in return, allows some students who live in Fairfax County outside the City of Fairfax to attend the city-owned schools.

In the early 2010s, Fairfax HS was quite overcrowded, with over 2600 kids, and the City of Fairfax asked FCPS to pull county kids out of Lanier (now Johnson) MS and Fairfax HS.  FCPS honored that request.  It was a bit of a mess because just a few years earlier FCPS had redistricted a bunch of Annandale HS kids to Woodson HS, and the later demand by Fairfax City forced FCPS to move more kids to Woodson.  Had they known when they adjusted the Annandale/Woodson boundary that they'd be moving Fairfax kids to Woodson as well, they might have taken a different approach to the Annandale/Woodson boundary change.  [/quote]

You have way too much time on your hands. [/quote]

Or maybe I just know the history and how to quickly navigate FCPS materials.

From 2013:

"On January 24, 2013, the School Board directed staff to undertake a boundary study aimed at providing enrollment relief for the current and projected overcrowding at Fairfax High School and its feeder, Lanier Middle School.  Fairfax High School is projected to be approximately 600 students over its capacity by the 2017-18 school year.  [b]The genesis for this boundary study began in summer 2012 when the School Board acknowledged the June 13, 2012, letter from the City of Fairfax School Board asking the Fairfax County School Board to commit to a boundary study of Fairfax High School and its feeders so “that the gross over-enrollment projected in the CIP is avoided.[/b]”  
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well, good for you. I can tell you I sat in on those meetings, as well. And that was not how it was presented (and our pyramid was affected by that). No, I did not spend the time mining through the school board docs. Congrats, you win that award. And know the most about school board goings on. [/quote]

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