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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][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Their story about South Lakes is that 7000 housing "units" are being proposed. Who knows how many of those are actually going to be built and most of those will not be the type of housing that high schoolers live in, but that's their cover story for SLHS. [/quote]

SLHS is at a reasonable capacity level after the move. There has been a lot of new housing in the area, to include apartments and townhouses and single family homes. It also shares borders with Oakton and can take students from Oakton if needed. I know that there are Crossfield families that hate hearing this, but Crossfield is likely to be moved to SLHS in a few years when Oakton is well over capacity.

SLHS has a great community and is a good school. It's biggest downside is IB but the School Board doesn't want to hear that. They could easily set up an IB academy or two in the county and bus kids who want IB to those schools and probably have a pretty robust IB program. The way they run IB right now, they can't even get the equivalent of one HS graduating class out of all the IB Diplomas across all the IB schools. I am not counting the specialized IB certificates that they have brought in to make the IB numbers look better but the actual IB diplomas. [/quote]

SLHS share borders with 5 other pyramids[/quote]

There are ES at all of those schools that could be moved to SLHS but the main one that I hear about is Oakton. Crossfield is at Oakton and already has students at SLHS so it makes sense that those kids would shift to SLHS when Oakton is deemed too over crowded. Madison and Marshall are close enough that I can see them swapping schools, I know that some just moved  between the two but it seems like that caused some controversy. Langley is most likely to send kids to Herndon if it becomes too overcrowded. Herndon is not going to have to worry about getting to capacity any time soon and already sends a bunch of kids to SLHS for IB.

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If Crossfield kids zoned to Oakton get moved to Franklin right now and then South Lakes in the future, where would they attend Middle School? Make Franklin into a three way split? [/quote]

Based on what they are trying to do in this rezoning, I would imagine they would get moved to Hughes to avoid a split feeder.[/quote]

Yes, move an ES to two different middle schools in a five-year period seems likely...[/quote]
Doesn't Crossfield already have some kids at Hughes?  Moving the rest there would eliminate another split feeder.[/quote]

There is no room to do so, and that area of Crossfield is in Reston.  [/quote]

Just eliminate AAP center. There will be room.[/quote]

You make a good point. Here's my prediction:

In 4-5 years (just in time for another comprehensive boundary review) AAP centers will be at all middle schools, meaning (1) Hughes will have capacity because the Herndon kids will be back at Herndon and (2) Franklin will be overcapacity because the Navy and Waples kids will return from Carson. Guess what the perfect school to move out of Franklin into Hughes-South Lakes will be? Crossfield!

At the same time, Carson will be well under capacity and overcapacity elementary schools like Floris, McNair, and Coates will be in the perfect position to move their 6th graders into a 6-8 middle school at Carson.[/quote]

Carson will not be underserved.  There will be plenty of kids there.  Five elementary schools.[/quote]
That's how many are there now PLUS AAP from I think three other schools. When those AAP kids go back to their base middle schools, Carson will in fact be under capacity. [/quote]

The additional AAP is from Oak Hill, Lees Corner, and Navy/Waples Mill.  So the current AAP includes Crossfield which is already there.  That will be switched out with Oak Hill.  So, the only current AAP not assigned in bounds. to Carson that will no longer be there is Lee's Corner and Navy/Waples Mill.  Carson will be fine and not underserved.
Crossfield is switching with Oak Hill. [/quote]

I don't know why you keep arguing with me and why you keep using the word "underserved" which does not mean the same thing as "under capacity." If you take a look at the slides from the presentation about middle school AAP, you can see the actual capacity percentages that prove my point.[/quote]

The problem is not whether Carson will be under capacity.  The problem is that Franklin doesn't have capacity for all the aap kids for it's feeder schools.  Lees corner, waples mill, crossfield and navy are known for yielding a lot of aap kids.[/quote]

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