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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids are at Chantilly HS.  It is truly ridiculous.  You guys complaining about West Springfield HS truly have no idea.[/quote]

West springfield people are not complaining.

There is a poster from Lewis who regularly starts threads about WSHS and how they think that WSHS needs to be rezoned to Lewis. There is at least one thread started each month about this, and any time anyone starts a thread about one of the overcrowded schools like WestPo, McLean or the western high schools, they try to redirect the thread to West Springfield and Lewis.

It happens like clockwork.

No one from WSHS is complaining online about this.

Really, when there are multiple schools around 30% over capacity, the schools that are just barely over capacity should not even be part of this discussion.[/quote]

For one thing, the disparity in population between Lewis and WS is unmatched by any other pair of neighboring schools that are frequently compared. Annandale vs. Woodson, Herndon vs. Langley, MVHS vs. West Potomac. MVHS would be the most similar situation, but even they have nearly 300 more students than Lewis. All the other schools such as Annandale, Herndon, Justice have 2100+ students. Lewis started the year at 1685 while WS is at 2600 and Edison at 2250. Not saying WS should be rezoned, but Lewis is clearly an outlier in size not just in FCPS but in the region. It's one of the only VHSL Class 5 schools other than TJ.[/quote]

Capacity wise, Edison is essentially equal to WSHS.  Both are around 5% above capacity.  Edison is half the distance and over twice the driving time to Lewis as WSHS.

Rezoning a neighborhood or two from WSHS to Lewis or Edison to Lewis will not make a difference to anyone's enrollment except for Bishop Ireton and all the other Virginia Catholic high schools.[/quote]

+1 and at any rate, South County is also fairly under-enrolled so if they were really concerned about massive overcrowding at West Springfield, it would be easy to pick off a few neighborhoods from the southern boundaries of WS and send them to SoCo instead. Would be a much easier drive than crossing the mixing bowl in a school bus. [/quote]

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