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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the feeling here about Sangster is that we are being kicked out of our community. Next year I will have a senior at West Springfield and (with the boundary change) a freshman at Lake Braddock. It feels weird. And it feels like our community is turning its back on my current 8th grader.

Also moving the students from WSHS to LB is going to make LB (on the high school side) over 100%. So we are being pushed from one overcrowded school to another overcrowded school. But really if we are going to move boundaries then some WSHS people should move TO Lewis. Ugh. The solution isn’t really a solution. And. What. About. Daventry. Send all those townhouses back to Lewis where they belong. [/quote]

I think you Sangster people are losing the support of the rest of the WSHS communities, OH, HV, RV, CF, KM and WS when you word your comments as that instead of Sangster going all to Lake Braddock, you want to kick out a neighborhood from the other end and send them past the mixing bowl to Lewis.

People just shake their heads over this, because Lake Braddock is such a good school and has such close ties to WSHS.[/quote]

I'm not the OP, but honestly, it is going to happen sooner than later.  Moving Sangster is a bandaid (bring the numbers to the tippy top of what they are calling 'acceptable overcrowding..105%).  Something larger will have to give, and you can't move any more into LB...It will have to go the other way (Daventry/HV/Others?).  [/quote]

WSHS will drop by approximately 100 students when class of 2026 graduates.

105% is not overcrowded at WSHS.

The trailers are not needed once it gets to around 107% which is where it was a year or two ago.

WSHS only needs to lose around 120 or so students to hit 105%

Between Sangster getting rezoned and 2026 graduating, WSHS should lose around 200-250 students by fall 2026.[/quote]

Good luck with that![/quote]

West Springfield class of 2026 is 735 students

Irving 8th grade is 579 students

That is a decrease of 156 students at WSHS high school between June 4, 2026 graduation and the 2026 school year, just from Class of 2026 graduating.

Irving transfers out around 55 students per grade to Lake Braddock for AAP.

All of those AAP students will return to WSHS for 9th grade.

This means when you factor in both the graduating seniors, plus the AAP kids returning from Lake Braddock, WSHS will drop by roughly 100 students starting the 2026 school year without a single student getting rezoned.

If FCPS starts enforcing WSHS being closed to transfers, WSHS could decrease by 120-130 students in 2026.

WSHS will drop from 2841 students this year, to somewhere around 2725-2750 students next year, just from the graduation of Class of 2026, a smaller enrollment than WSHS had in the 2024-25 school year, which was 2781 students.

This is before a single studdnt is rezoned from WSHS.  If you add in the 125 or so students getting rezoned, WSHS could easily be around 2600 students by the start of the 2026 school year.

Insult if you must, but realize that the numbers are the numbers.

https://schoolprofiles.fcps.edu/schlprfl/f?p=108:107::105:::P0_CURRENT_SCHOOL_ID,P0_EDSL:151,0

https://schoolprofiles.fcps.edu/schlprfl/f?p=108:107::105:::P0_CURRENT_SCHOOL_ID,P0_EDSL:150,0
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It’s not quite that simple. The current WSHS 9th grade class was 634 when 8th graders and now 711 as freshmen. That’s more than the 50 AAP transfers returning. There’s usually some additional growth from the K-8 private school kids. And while this year’s 8th grade class is abnormally small, the 7th grade class is back over 650. WSHS enrollment numbers have likely peaked, but they won’t roll off as quickly as you’re predicting. [/quote]

The WS parents have been claiming for years that "next year" the enrollment will start to come down significantly, and it's never happened.  They've lost credibility.

If they are going to move [b]any[/b] high school kids out of their current schools, the starting point is WSHS. [/quote]

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