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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Westgate had the most capacity and a brand new expanded facility, this is the obvious choice but uppity McLean moms would lose their minds so they'd rather over crowd the other McLean only elementary schools.[/quote]

Uhh, no.  FCPS staff proposed not to move anyone to Westgate because it’s one of the main elementary schools serving growing Tysons, along with Spring Hill. [/quote]

Exactly, if anything they should be shifting even more students to Chesterbrook which is projected at 86% capacity in 5 years and presumably continuing to drop off from there as it's on a long-term downward trend in enrollment (and that's even taking into account the proposed shifts from Scenario B).  It's the furthest from Tysons and abuts the Arlington county line, so it really has nowhere else to draw additional students from to make use of the available capacity of Chesterbrook (and leave more capacity available for growth near Tysons and even some modest growth in downtown McLean where more projects like Signet could happen). Haycock also likely to see increased enrollment from West Falls Church development, so shifting kids there from KG seems a bit short-sighted as well unless they are planning to unwind the AAP Center aspect of Haycock.[/quote]

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