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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do people say a given high school is great or not? For example, Chantilly gets a lot of accolades vs Westfield or Centreville - it is that the teachers are better or clubs are better or electives...I'm not sure what people are comparing. Chantilly for example is a little dark and crowded - that is where my kid is zoned for unless we opt into Western, but I do hesitate to try a new school when people seem to think Chantilly and Oakton were the lucky draws for base school.  [/quote]

I am not familiar with Centreville.
However, Chantilly is popular, IMHO, because it is truly a community school.  No student lives more than 10 minutes away from the school and their friends from school live close to them.

Westfield is split into two sections--those who will likely attend Western do not live close to any other neighborhoods in the Westfield community.  If you look at the boundary map--it looks contiguous.  But, those kids are separated from the rest of Westfield which is well on the other side of 50 by a couple of miles. So, the community feel is more difficult.  The ones slated to go from Chantilly to Westfield, however, live on the same side of 50 as Westfield and are much, much closer to Westfield than those expected to go to Western.
I think Westfield will be more popular once those kids are removed because they will not be remote from the other students.[/quote]

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