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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The price tag for KAA will skyrocket by the time they reopen it as a 2100-student public high school. Wait and see. It’s absurd how poorly FCPS is managed. They can’t take care of the basics when it comes to managing their current facilities but when they saw a shiny toy was up for sale they had to have it. [/quote]

Nonsense. Its practically turnkey. They even sold the furnishings. NOT buying this property would have been the most financially foolish thing FCPS has done in a long time.[/quote]

KAA had like 850 kids. The ultimate price for FCPS will be much higher than the initial purchase price.

Mateo Dunne just wants to play hero ball.  Doesn’t matter if it’s a good or a bad deal as long as he gets attention.  [/quote]
KAA had an 8:1 student-to-teacher ratio.  The facilities and classrooms aren’t overly large but they can easily accommodate twice the number kids enrolled at KAA.  KAA won’t be a 2,000+ student high school without some significant renovations.  However, it could easily take 1,500 students tomorrow.[/quote]

It might upset a lot of parents, and the local community, but why not just make it a small 1,500 student school. Neighboring schools in Loudoun County are at that size.

It’s basically a turnkey facility. [/quote]

Why would it upset anyone if FCPS has another small HS like Lewis or even smaller?  They can be Class 4 or Class 5 and play against smaller schools in Loudoun like Broad Run and Dominion.  [/quote]

That sounds good to me. Most families are drawn to the large 3,000 student high schools with all their offerings. But if FCPS can offer the variety of courses, including high level AP subjects, and the same number of sports offerings at this smaller school, then it may just work out. Like you said, this new high school could join a sports conference with the Loudoun schools. FCPS would just need to think a little outside the box. Not every high school needs to be a 2,500 to 3,000 student school even if that’s the popular or expected baseline. [/quote]

The need is for more than 1500.  Chantilly and Westfield relief plus elimination of bus to Oakton.[/quote]

If that’s the case, could FCPS not add modulars and/or convert the adjacent buildings (mentioned previously upthread) into classroom space? [/quote]
They could, and may in the future.  They could also add walls to the kindergarten rooms and do the other renovations necessary for this school to host more than 1500.  The main building has the same square footage as Centreville HS (enrollment 2,623), so I'm sure it can handle 2,000.  [/quote]

This is being pitched as a turnkey project so they should not be spending much to modify the building beyond what’s absolutely necessary for it to function as a HS.

And Centreville doesn’t have an enrollment of 2623.  Its enrollment last year was 2281 and the main building has a design capacity of 1968.  [/quote]

Agree.  Also, though, Centreville has had more kids over the last couple of years.[/quote]

It would be more accurate to say that Centreville had more kids not that many years ago.  Over the past couple of years, the enrollment has been declining and judging from the numbers at Liberty and Rocky Run it seems like that will continue.  The most recent CIP has Centreville declining to 2079 kids by the 2029-30 school year.

This is why, with the KAA acquisition likely leading to some Centreville kids shifting to Westfield once three Westfield feeders (Coates, Floris, and McNair) move to KAA, expanding Centreville beyond 2500 during its upcoming renovation no longer makes any sense, if it ever did.  [/quote]

There is a neighborhood right next to Centreville that goes to Fairfax.  And, there are other neighborhoods close by that are not zoned to Centreville presently.[/quote]

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