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Reply to "Why does Fairfax County not seem to build new schools, especially high schools?"
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[quote=Anonymous][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] The main areas anticipated for future residential growth in Fairfax County and the immediately affected pyramids are, in descending order: 1. Tysons (Marshall/McLean) 2. New Silver Line stations in Herndon (Westfield) 3. Reston (South Lakes) 4. Route 1/Embark (Edison) [/quote] Embark will chiefly affect Mount Vernon HS and West Potomac HS as that is where the new housing will be concentrated. WP is already very large so if boundaries are used to alleviate things I could see Hayfield and Edison getting thrown into the mix.[/quote] The analysis that FCPS posted from March 2023 indicating potential student growth from new residential housing indicated that Edison could pick up 169 additional students, compared to 62 at West Potomac and 52 at Mount Vernon. The Edison growth included new projects off Route 1 in the Huntington area - maybe that's not considered Embark, but it's still within the Edison district - as well as off Route 241. [/quote]
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