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[quote=Anonymous][quote]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)?
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Who said it had to be between Carson and Hutchison?  They had a perfect site at Carson and gave it away for political reasons to the Saudi's.  Then they lied and said it wasn't enough space for a high school--but Saudi website says it is on 40 acres.  For comparison, Chantilly is on about 17..

Hutchison is not just not ideal, it would be terrible.  Wonder if the School Board has had VDOT consider the traffic impact on it?

Westfield was over 2600 last year.  I do know it was expanded to have 3000 capacity--don't know if the extra capacity is being utilized.

I don't know where to find the capacity of each school.  Perhaps someone could weigh in on that.  I just remember from the boundary study in 2008 that Westfield had capacity of 3000 but Stu and Katjy decided (right after the expansion, paint was hardly dry) that was too big.

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