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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.  
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I understand why you might say this, but you're missing part of the picture.   Send the Powell/Willow Springs kids now at Fairfax to Centreville, and Centreville's enrollment - which is around 2600 - easily goes up another 400-500 kids to over 3000, while Fairfax's enrollment would go down the same amount.  And Fairfax wouldn't have other areas to pick up because the other kids closer to Fairfax are already attending Woodson and Oakton. It is very much a product of the proximity of multiple high schools near Fairfax and the fact that neither FCPS nor the City of Fairfax want Fairfax HS to be a "runt" school with far fewer kids than other schools in the area. [/quote]

To that same point, in theory, they could move some of the Fairfax kids near Centreville or Clifton (which doesn't have space) to Robinson (which does), but again they haven't done that because they don't want to gut Fairfax's enrollment.

Fairfax City could go the Falls Church City route, take over the Fairfax schools (Fairfax, Johnson, Providence and Daniel's Run) entirely, and just have an independent school system with smaller schools than they have today.  That would strain the relations between Fairfax City and Fairfax County, however, and both the city and the county have benefitted from the current arrangement, where FCPS operates Fairfax HS, the school has kids who live in the county as well as the city, and it's a medium-sized high school by FCPS standards as opposed to a much smaller school like George Mason/Meridian in FCC.  [/quote]

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