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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All the other proposed maps in the other versions had Westfield with a more reasonable population-at least 23-400 students by pulling from Lees Corner, or Bull Run, or the Walney area, etc. This "final" map is the only one that dipped all the way down to @2000. I'm sure the Westfield people were taken aback by that. [/quote]

Where were all the people thinking an enrollment of 2300 or 2400 kids is "reasonable" when FCPS was refusing to invest in other schools and downsizing them?  [b]If Westfield ends up with 2150 kids[/b] or so, it will still have an enrollment larger than nine other high schools, including Skyview.  [/quote]

The projection has it at only 2083, which is fewer than 2150, with the only MC neighborhood being rezoned lobbying FCPS hard to get out. There's no chance they add more kids in but based on the shenanigans so far, there's a likely chance they move kids back to Chantilly, which would leave them with 1900 or fewer. [/quote]

You're right that the projection has Westfield at 2083, not 2150.  That's still higher than nine other high schools based on all the boundary adjustments adopted and proposed:  [b]Herndon,[/b] Marshall, South County, [b]Falls Church, Annandale, South Lakes, Mount Vernon[/b], Skyview, and[b] Lewis. [/b] [/quote]

Interesting that this list of smallest schools also includes all the academic have-not schools people are desperate to avoid in FCPS and that FCPS ignores and refuses to improve. They are deliberately moving Westfield from a regular middle of the pack school down to the bottom tier of Avoid at All Cost schools. [/quote]
If the only thing keeping Westfield in the middle of the pack was all those kids north of 50, then this was inevitable.[/quote]

Not sure what your point is? Moving over a thousand kids out of any school with balanced demographics but only moving back in 200 or so mostly low income kids destabilizes any school community. Those areas have been zoned to Westfield for at least 25 years. [/quote]

The current proposal is to move 386 kids into Westfield - 309 from Chantilly and 77 from Centreville.  Not "200 or so."

It's still a sizable loss of students for Westfield, but Westfield would have more kids than nine other high schools in the county, including Skyview. 
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10th smallest school by population with the largest HS building capacity in the county.  Make it make sense…. There is no reason Westfield doesn’t have a top 5 population.  It’s because the county caved to the wealthy and connected at Chantilly and Centreville.  Case closed[/quote]

Westfield does not have the largest HS building capacity in FCPS. Lake Braddock and West Potomac both have more 9-12 capacity.

Westfield is still expected to have more kids than nine other high schools, including Skyview, once these changes are fully implemented.

It’s likely Westfield will stop winning state championships with a smaller student enrollment but FCPS implicitly decided smaller schools were better when it decided to buy KAA.

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