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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't understand why Westfield is the whipping boy of this school board and neighborhoods seem frantic to avoid it.

It has a farms rate in the normal range for a middle of the pack FCPS HS, its not overcrowded, has successful sports teams, seems to send kids to the normal range of colleges based on instagram.

I don't live in the area but why did FCPS decide this school was going to be the designated dumping ground?[/quote]

The starting point was the decision to buy KAA, which lies within the Westfield boundaries.

You cannot create boundaries for Skyview without moving three ES that feed mostly or entirely to Westfield into Skyview (Coates, Floris, McNair).

That means you then have to backfill Westfield, at least to some extent, and people in wealthier areas zoned to Centreville and Chantilly quickly started fighting with each other over whether Lees Corner or the Centreville part of Bull Run should get moved.

Rather than piss off one of those areas, they pivoted towards just reassigning some poorer areas to Westfield and leaving it much smaller in a few years than it is now.  It is exactly how they dealt with other boundary changes during the county-wide review, just on a larger scale. They don’t care if it adds Westfield to the growing list of pariah schools in the county, so long as it quiets the noisiest voices now.  
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