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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Fairfax is not growing in areas where there is room to build a school. There is however population growth in the older suburbs like Seven Corners and Baileys X Roads where many new apartments are coming on line. Parts of Western Fairfax county is growing, but the growth will be accommodated by recently finished or upcoming school expansions.

Re new construction, FCPS prefers to renovate with phased construction over a few years vs tear down rebuild, even if renovation comes out a little more in terms of cost. (The exception is the historic Dunn Loring School which will be demolished.)

MCPS is currently building multiple new middle and high schools for its growing population.

Locally, MCPS and APS prefer to tear down and rebuild their secondary schools (unless they are historic or part of a historic district).

DCPS renovates all of its historic school buildings (for obvious reasons). [/quote]

What about PWCPS?[/quote]

PWCPS builds brand new high schools with all the bells and whistles. Like APS (Arlington) the newer high schools have swimming pools. (I believe at least two of the new PWCPS high schools have pools?)

One future new high school is planned to reduce crowding at Woodbridge Senior High in the eastern part of the county. [/quote]

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