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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well, no. That's the problem, right? Unless FCPS decides to offer the exact same courses at every high school, a school with 40% disadvantaged kids is going to offer a whole lot fewer classes, clubs, etc. Why do you think those parents pay to charter a bus from Oak Hill to Langley every morning? For "Russian"? [/quote]

There aren’t a lot of kids transferring to Langley from any single school.

The really large cohort of transferring kids in western Fairfax is the group transferring from Herndon to South Lakes ostensibly for IB.  The transfers from one AP school to another just aren’t that big. You can argue that an increase in the FARMS rate at Westfield might lead to more transfers to South Lakes, but at some point South Lakes stops taking pupil placements and the longer commute to other IB schools discourages people from pupil placing.

It sounds like there’s either a Westfield parent who wants to keep Floris captive at Westfield (even though KAA sits in the Floris district) or there’s a poster who just wants to keep KAA from opening as a neighborhood school, for some undisclosed reason.  In general, a 35-40% FARMS school with, say, 2200 or 2300 kids could still offer a lot of academic options to kids.[/quote]

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