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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does anyone know any rising sophomores opting in?
Our base school is not great, but I don’t know any sophomores opting in to Western. They just don’t seem interested about attending a school with limited clases and activities and having to go to the base school for sports. 
And the fewer that opt in, the fewer others want to follow.
I wish they had just settled the boundaries and made everyone go.[/quote]

Yes, I know a bunch are from SLHS. I have neighbors whose kids will be moving and they told me that many of their kids friends opted in. Honestly, I know rising Juniors who are annoyed that they don't have the choice.

I would be surprised if they get 500 sophomores but they will have a decent number.[/quote]

There were only 40-45 kids out of approx. 607 students from SLHS that asked to be at Western for ninth grade as reported at last SLHS PTSA meeting when SB rep. shared data. That’s only about 15% of ninth graders and some have changed their minds and spoken with counselors to deselect after the deadline. The percentage will most likely decrease again.

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Most of South Lakes is not going to be in boundary. What percentage of those kids are Fox Mill? They need to break the numbers down by the ES not the HS. The Non-Fox Mill kids that pupil place for AP will go to whatever school is taking AP this year. I am not sure if you can pupil place for AP and a language or if Herndon is the only AP allowable now based on space and distance. The normal number of kids pupil placing out of SLHS for TJ and AP is already at something like 35 kids per grade, now toss on another 40. So SLHS loses 75 of its 9th graders next year. [/quote]

Keep in mind a portion of Floris goes to South lakes as well. So those numbers would include them too. Not huge but I think it’s like 50 kids per grade. [/quote]

Yup. I thought I had heard that many of those kids wanted to stay at SLHS for the theatre program and sports but that could be bad rumint.[/quote]

I imagine those would be the main reasons why anyone who could potentially be in boundary wouldn’t opt in - sports or a particular club/activity. Thats why using opt-in data makes absolutely no sense. [/quote]

Maybe, but that is why breaking it down by ES makes more sense than breaking it down by HS. Floris and Fox Mill are the two ES most likely to be moved to Western, I would expect more kids from those schools to potentially opt in. Both are reasonably small, Fox Mill has around 90 kids in a class but something like 25% is from out of boundary. So lets say it send 65-70 kids to SLHS. If that 45 kids are from the 120 potential freshman from Floris and Fox Mill,  well that tells a different story doesn’t it? We move from 7% of all Freshman at Herndon, keeping in mind that a good number of the kids in the Freshman class come from Herndon so that class size is actually exaggerated, to 50% of the potentially in boundary kids selecting Western.

But saying it is only 7% when you know that the likelihood of kids from schools that are not likely to end up at Western is silly. [/quote]

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