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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As far as South Lakes, I suspect that many of the "opt-ins" to Skyview were from Fox Mill.  It will be interesting to see which base schools those kids are coming from.  Has that been published?  I bet there are some from other area schools that are not going to be "in boundary."

Does anyone know what the breakdown is?[/quote]

Fox Mill and Floris kids at SLHS opted in. My kid reported kids from Hughes MS at the HS preview day for Skyview, so it wasn't just Fox Mill and Floris. I would guess that some where are 25 kids from FMES opted in this year. Keep in mond that FMES enrollment numbers are inflated by the JI program, so the kids going to SLHS from FMES is actually smaller then the enrollment at the school. It was probably roughly 50% of the 8th grade class from FMES opted in to Skyview. The Floris numbers at SLHS are pretty small as well. I am guessing the Hughes kids who opted in would be from Dogwood, maybe the kids who had been in the JI program at FMES.

I suspect that SLHS is also realizing that it is going to see an increase in the number of kids looking to pupil place to Skyview because it will be the closer AP school for lots of families. SLHS loses about 125 kids a year to Herndon for AP, that number might go up with an AP program at Skyview due to the difference in student bodies. Parents might be more comfortable pupil placing to a lower FARMs AP school then the higher FARMS AP school that had been the choice for most. And the SLHS community knows it. Some discussed it on Meren's FB posts.[/quote]

According to the capacity dashboard only 13 kids transferred from South Lakes to Herndon this year (158 transferred from Herndon to South Lakes).  When Skyview becomes an option for AP, the number of transfers out of South Lakes may increase substantially.  [/quote]

The SLHS map shows 157 SLHS students transferred out and 234 students transferred in.

[b]158 Herndon to SLHS[/b]
35 Westfield to SLHS
15 from Oakton to SLHS
All the others are 1 student.

TJ got 31 students from SLHS
Langley got 28 Students from SLHS
Oakton got 11 students from SHLS
The Herndon Map shows 13 transfers in, I think I misread the numbers. My apologies 1 from SLHS.
Westfield got 1 student from SLHS
Chantilly got 1 student from SLHS
Centreville got 1 student from SLHS

The tracker also said that a 1 doesn't necessarily mean 1, just that there was movement from that school to the other school but under 10. So probably more then 1 to the 4 schools listed with a 1. 
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158 students transfer from HHS to SLHS? Likely motivated students too.

And we wonder why the school is losing kids.[/quote]

There are 134 kids at Hughes MS from Herndon MS. Presumably most are there for AAP.

So that translates to roughly 268 kids in high school, a large number of whom decide to stay in the South Lakes pyramid.

However, if those kids were at Herndon HS it would still have well over 400 vacant seats to accommodate kids living nearby but in another pyramid should the need arise. [/quote]
So it’s mostly AAP kids? That’s a huge brain drain from HHS. Seems like if they want to beef up the school that’s the obvious place to start.[/quote]

But on the flip side moving the transfers to South Lakes back to Herndon on top of the South Lakes kids moving to Skyview would be a huge brain drain from SLHS.  If anything moving all these South Lakes kids to Skyview is an insurance policy for keeping IB at South Lakes since it becomes more dependent on the transfers for IB from Herndon to maintain its enrollment.

I think they have other plans for Herndon in a few years.  [/quote]
“Think” whatever you want but the fact is that there are 158 bright kids who transfer to South lakes even though they are in the HHS catchment area.  Would infuriate a lot of folks to make boundary changes based on low enrollment when there is an existing open sieve at HHS.[/quote]

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