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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Expanding high schools during renovations makes perfect sense, logistically and economically.

Better to be prepared with surplus space in as many high schools as possible, than to be caugh in a situation with too many students and not place to logically put them other than a bunch of trailers.

Rezoning should be the last resort.

I hope fcps continues to expand any high school they renovate.[/quote]

Here are the additional high school students FCPS is projecting in different pyramids if current and planned projects are built (only a fraction of these units are included in existing FCPS projections):

Marshall 795
McLean 615
Westfield 597
South Lakes 541
Edison 224
Fairfax 98
Falls Church 88
Lewis 86
West Potomac 73
Mount Vernon 52
Oakton 48
Justice 43
Chantilly 37
Woodson 25
Hayfield 15
South County 11
Annandale 6
Langley 4
Robinson 4
West Springfield 3
Herndon 2
Madison 2
Centreville 1

So in essence they know the county has four main growth areas: (1) Tysons (Marshall, McLean); (2) Herndon/Silver Line (Westfield); (3) Reston (South Lakes); and (4) Route 1/Embark (Edison).

Nevertheless, according to you, if Hayfield came up for a renovation, it would make more sense to spend money adding lots of additional seats there than to pro-actively allocate money to expand capacity in any of these four growth areas.

That seems like slavish adherence to a principle rather than smart planning.  
[/quote] McLean cannot absorb a single extra students, let alone over 600. The situation there is dire as it is. And it is starting to show in the declining SAT scores. You cannot maintain a decent quality education in a dangerously overcrowded environment. 
https://www.fcps.edu/news/fairfax-county-sat-scores-continue-surpass-state-and-global-averages?utm_campaign+=&utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery
And comparing FCPS declining SAT scores to global scores is as dumb as it gets. How could non-native speakers of English - living abroad -- possibly have comparable scores to students in U.S. public schools? But, yeah, globally, we are doing great. 
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