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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]The situation with kids who live Centreville and Clifton going to Fairfax is a result of weird boundaries due to all Fairfax City kids attending Fairfax, even though some are closer to Oakton and Woodson, and Madison/Oakton/Fairfax/Woodson being so close to one another. It's also not ideal, as there are families at Fairfax who'd like to send their kids to Centreville, which is closer.[/quote]

This comment makes no sense at all.  Yes, all Fairfax City kids go to Fairfax.  But, the reason those kids out near Clifton/Centreville go there is because of the overcrowding at Centreville.  Period. Some of them live a mile from Centreville.   The next closest school to them is Chantilly, which is also overcrowded.  It has nothing to do with Woodson or Oakton.

[quote]Herndon is being expanded to 2500 seats, so between those additional seats and another 2500 or seats that might be added with a new high school, it is certainly possible that Herndon HS could have space to take on students from Langley, and Langley in turn might be able to accommodate more students who live closer to the school than the western parts of Great Falls.[/quote]
When and if there is space at Herndon, that could be considered.  Right now--or, at least, last year--Herndon has many more kids than Langley.

[quote]Of course, that all remains to be determined. What is unfortunate, however, is the prospect that people will actively work behind the scenes to kill the construction of a new school simply because they don't want Langley's boundaries even potentially to be revisited, or the idea that nothing can move forward unless Langley, alone among the high schools attended by students living in the western part of the county, receives some sort of iron-clad guarantee ahead of time that it will be scoped out of any future adjustments. No single school community should be allowed to exert such an outsized influence on FCPS decisions.[/quote]

I have no idea what the future holds iwth capacity and projections.  There are schools that are bursting at the seams--and they are not Langley.  My objection to the Hutchison site is traffic mitigation.  It would be a horrible place for a high school.  I doubt seriously that anyone plans to put a bridge across the toll road to help the traffic pattern and there is nowhere else to go but Elden St which can hardly handle the traffic there at present during commuter hours.  With Metro coming, commuter traffic will be worse.

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Hutchison isn’t ideal but where else is there land between it and Carson? Developers have scooped up all the vacant land there and have already started building. Maybe take over the clock tower commercial site?  Anywhere they put the HS will make traffic worse. This is Fairfax county!

Also, is it true that Westfields is artificially under capacity? Is the over/under enrollment calculated based on the ideal number for each school (about 2k?) instead of its actual max capacity (3k)? [/quote]

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