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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Isn’t Westfield really crowded too?[/quote]

Westfield was expanded to have a capacity of 3000 not too long after it was built..  Soon after the expansion was completed , the "new" guidance in 2008 was that all high schools should have a population of 2000.  This was to help justify the South Lakes boundary study.  A lot of neighborhoods were taken from Westfield and redistricted to South Lakes.    This helped justify SB taking kids from Oakton, Westfield, and Madison.  It has over 2600 according to the data posted at FCPS.  But, unless they have put something else there, there is plenty of room.[/quote]

I think the target enrollment they announced back then was 2100, not 2000, but of course it meant nothing in the long term and was just part of the rationale to downsize the schools that sent kids to South Lakes.  Now they are expanding Madison to 2500, Oakton to 2700, West Potomac to 3000, etc.  There is no consistency or logic in what FCPS does from a planning perspective.  They make up everything on the fly and then pretend it's consistent with some overarching principles that are then quickly discarded. [/quote]

+1  The rationale was constantly mentioned throughout that process.  It was a very ugly process.  Stu Gibson and Kathy Smith were the pushers. It was Stu's show, but Kathy was his good pal and helped him.   It was all outlined by the South Lakes PTA.  They even had it posted online for a while, but then realized that others were reading it.  The PTA picked and chose which neighborhoods they wanted.   Kathy Smith ponied up Chantilly to lose kids because once Fox Mill was moved to South Lakes, Oakton was underserved.  So they sent kids who lived down the street from Chantilly and sent them to Oakton.

South Lakes PTA wanted to pull some kids from Janiie, but she wouldn't let them go.  They also wanted Armstrong and Aldrin, but Herndon PTA screamed that they were taking their good PTA workers.  Seriously.  So, Herndon kept those schools.  Stu had wanted all Reston kids to go to South Lakes.[/quote]

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