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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And the other issue is they will not want to increase the farms rate at any of the existing HS by pulling too many well off students out to go to New HS.
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Prediction:
Coates
McNair
Floris 
Oak Hill
(Crossfield)

This solves bus ride to Westfield on 28 and the overcrowding at Chantilly.
Enables Centreville to off load to Westfield.
They will try to include Crossfield because of the long bus ride to Oakton.  
Might allow close Navy kids to return to Chantilly.
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Doesn't that pull a lot of the non farms kids from westfield?

Looking at the map, there don't seem to be any areas zoned to Centreville that make sense to move to Westfield[/quote]

Look again.  [/quote]

Nope, nothing that makes sense if the goal is avoiding more split feeders.[/quote]

Bull Run[/quote]

Half of Bull Run ES are neighborhoods way over by Centre Ridge. You are suggesting to move the whole school to Westfield? [/quote]

Centre Ridge is not a HS, so yes Westfield could feed from 100% of Cub Run, Virginia Run, Deer Park, London Towne, and Bull Run.

I appreciate this means some Bull Run families might prefer to stay at Centreville and/or would end up with a longer commute.  But I see no alternative, especially if we want to move Willow Springs to Centreville and not expand Centreville more than needed.  Leaving Westfield, one of the largest high schools in the county, with only four feeders would make no sense.  Better not to close on the KAA then let that happen.

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So you aren't familiar with the Centreville area?

Your suggestions would basically concentrate all the low income neighborhoods in the Centreville/Chantilly area at Westfield, creating one HS full of economically disadvantaged kids surrounded by other schools with comparatively few disadvantaged kids (CHS, CVHS, KAA, Oakton etc.)

Deer Park: 35% free lunch
London Towne: 48% free lunch
Bull Run:  43% free lunch
Va Run- 35% free lunch
Cub Run: 22% free lunch

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Look, people have been complaining regularly about how the northern-most parts of Westfield (which stand to move over to KAA) are separated by Dulles and other commercial areas from the rest of the Westfield district.  Westfield with these five feeders would have an enrollment large enough to sustain academic offerings and extra-curricular programs and, even if its FARMS rate increased somewhat (note that all these schools have FARMS rates well below Coates, which will get moved out) the FARMS rate would be lower than Herndon and many other schools further east.

Chantilly already has a lower FARMS rate.  Moving Oak Hill out of Chantilly would increase, not decrease, the FARMS rate there.  Centreville's FARMS rate would go down if Cub Run were swapped with Willow Springs, but it would still have other higher FARMS feeders.  In any event, the rationale isn't to increase or decrease the FARMS rate at Centreville, but instead to make sure Westfield still has enough kids and also finally keep Willow Springs kids from having to travel all the way to Fairfax.

I notice you've offered no alternative, only complaints, so feel free to explain what you think makes sense, starting with who gets assigned to KAA and then addressing the spillover effects on Westfield and other schools.  [/quote]

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