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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do they want to make Haycock 99% full while leaving other schools in the 80s, especially given the development and infill building in Haycock bounds? Why are so many schools involved for one school’s overcrowding that could easily be fixed by program changes?[/quote]

They are projecting Haycock at 92-96% under Option B.

If the LLIV program at Franklin Sherman gets stronger with more kids and a new principal, there will be fewer FS AAP kids at Haycock.

If the new WFC development gets built and overcrowd Haycock they can move some kids to Lemon Road. [/quote]

The projections for Haycock have always been way off and the new development is not taken into consideration in the projections. If there was no phasing, option B would make Haycock 99% full, even by their projections. It’s unclear why phasing makes it 96%. Either way, 96 or 99 are too full, especially considering the development around west falls Church. And it’s not good to blindly guess at what might happen with FS LLIV.  Why does KG program overcrowding justify all these changes to so many other schools?[/quote]

I think the bottom line is that they aren’t just trying to relieve the overcrowding at Kent Gardens.  They are also trying to add kids to Chesterbrook, which otherwise is facing a big enrollment decline, but they can’t just move kids from Kent Gardens to Chesterbrook because most of the Kent Gardens areas nearest to Chesterbrook are walkable to Kent Gardens.  And then Elaine Tholen is trying to make her Langley friends happy by using this as an opportunity to move the relatively small number of Langley kids at Franklin Sherman (about 12% of FS) to Churchill Road. So they’ve ended up with a proposal to move a lot of kids to try and achieve these multiple objectives.

You’re undoubtedly right that Haycock is looking at more overcrowding down the road with the additional kids from Kent Gardens and the new development planned near the WFC Metro.  But the WFC development is still a few years away and, if needed, moving part of Haycock to Lemon Road would make it a more balanced McLean/Marshall feeder (Lemon Road physically sits within the McLean attendance area but probably 75% or so goes to Marshall).

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