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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It seems bizarre because there are some middle schools that feed into at least 3 high schools. [/quote]

Neighborhood high schools typically have one or two middle school feeders (in terms of base boundaries; it gets more complicated with AAP programs):

[b]One feeder[/b]:

Centreville - Liberty
Fairfax - Johnson
Hayfield - Hayfield (secondary school)
Herndon - Herndon
Justice - Glasgow
Lake Braddock - Lake Braddock (secondary school)
Langley - Cooper
Lewis - Key
McLean - Longfellow
Mount Vernon - Whitman
Robinson - Robinson (secondary school)
South County - South County
West Potomac - Sandburg
West Springfield - Irving
Woodson - Frost

[b]Two feeders[/b]:

Annandale - Holmes, Poe
Chantilly - Franklin, Rocky Run
Edison - Holmes, Twain
Falls Church - Jackson, Poe
Madison- Kilmer, Thoreau
Marshall - Kilmer, Thoreau
South Lakes - Carson, Hughes

[b]Three feeders[/b]:

Oakton - Carson, Franklin, Thoreau
Westfield - Carson, Franklin, Stone[/quote]

I tried to update this to reflect not just base boundaries, but also the current AAP program assignments (FCPS doesn't spell this out explicitly, so this may not be 100% accurate, but it should be fairly close):

[b]One feeder[/b]:

Fairfax - Johnson
Justice - Glasgow
Lake Braddock - Lake Braddock (secondary school)
Langley - Cooper
McLean - Longfellow
South County - South County
West Potomac - Sandburg
Woodson - Frost

[b]Two feeders[/b]:

Centreville - Liberty, Rocky Run
Herndon - Herndon, Hughes
Mount Vernon - Whitman, Sandburg
Robinson - Robinson (secondary school), Lake Braddock
South Lakes - Carson, Hughes
West Springfield - Irving, Lake Braddock

[b]Three feeders[/b]:

Chantilly - Franklin, Rocky Run, Carson
Edison - Holmes, Twain, Glasgow
Falls Church - Jackson, Poe, Glasgow
Hayfield - Hayfield (secondary school), Lake Braddock, Twain
Lewis - Key, Lake Braddock, Twain
Madison- Kilmer, Thoreau, Jackson
Marshall - Kilmer, Thoreau, Jackson

[b]Four feeders[/b]:

Annandale - Holmes, Poe, Frost, Glasgow
Oakton - Carson, Franklin, Thoreau, Jackson
Westfield - Carson, Franklin, Stone, Rocky Run

So this suggests that 1/3 of the neighborhood high schools in FCPS only draw from a single middle school, when you factor in AAP middle school assignments.  [/quote]

South Lakes might have two feeder schools but the number of kids coming from Carson is relatively small. I believe that it is mainly the kids from Fox Mill and some kids from Floris but that is it. Fox Mill sends a max of 90, but probably less then that because of kids going Private, kid(s) going  to TK, or transferring to an AP school. Most of South Lakes is coming from Hughes[/quote]

There are no doubt other examples of schools where some of the feeders don’t send many kids.  At Edison, for example, the vast majority of kids come from Twain, but they have kids from one ES (Bren Mar Park) coming from Holmes and then an even smaller number zoned for BMP from the AAP program at Glasgow.

At Marshall, the majority come from Kilmer, but there are a relatively small number from Thoreau, and a really small number from Jackson (it would be AAP kids from one ES (Cunningham Park) zoned for Marshall who have Thoreau as the base school but Jackson as the AAP school.

With McLean and Langley, on the other hand, you just have kids coming from one MS.  Not sure it really makes much of a difference in terms of being accepting of newcomers, OP’s original concern, because both schools also have kids coming from privates and a fair number of newcomers every year.  Getting involved with some activity is always going to be the best way to meet others outside the classroom. [/quote]

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