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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Using VDOE statistics for current 6th graders, it appears a new high school drawing from the current 6th graders from Coates, Fox Mill, Hutchison, McNair, Oak Hill, and 1/2 of Floris would look about like this:

Class size - @ 560-570 kids

FARMS rate: @ 33.5% (slightly above current county-wide rate)

Ethnic composition:  Asian 36.7%, Hispanic 27.3%, White 22.4%, Black 9.2%, Multi-Racial 4.4%

So, like Centreville and Chantilly now, it would have a plurality Asian population and would not resemble Mount Vernon, which is currently both majority FARMS and majority Hispanic.  
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Ok Now do Coates, McNair, Hutchinson, Herndon, Dogwood and you will find the Mount Vernon of Western Fairfax.[/quote]

Democrat School Boards are spending $40M on an unnecessarily large expansion of West Potomac so kids don't have to attend Mount Vernon, which has extra capacity.  So what makes you think they'd create a "Mount Vernon of Western Fairfax" when there are other options.  [/quote]

Look at what they did to Woodson/Annandale. Two schools so close, and one got All the pools shoved there and the other one got all the middle class kids.Langley/Herndon same thing.[/quote]

Annandale was a different situation.

When FCPS decided to close Jefferson and reopen TJ as a STEM magnet, one of their initial promises to the Jefferson community (which wasn't thrilled to be losing their high school) was that everyone at Jefferson could move to Annandale.  That led to overcrowding Annandale, and also to concentrate all the low-income housing off Route 236 at Annandale, rather than splitting it between two schools (Jefferson and Annandale) as had been the case previously.

Then, in response to Annandale's overcrowding they made a series of incremental boundary changes that pulled single-family neighborhoods out of Annandale to Falls Church (Columbia Pines), Lake Braddock (Ravensworth), Woodson (Wakefield Forest), and then Edison (Edsall Park and Bren Mar Park), while only moving a few apartment complexes to Edison.  The result over time was to concentrate poverty at Annandale and even more so at Poe Middle.

It wasn't all sunshine for Woodson, either, since shortly after FCPS moved the part of Wakefield Forest that had been attending Annandale to Woodson the City of Fairfax demanded that FCPS pull county kids out of Fairfax HS, which led to reassigning Fairfax Villa ES to Woodson and creating crowded conditions there.

But, in any case, no one specifically sought ought to draw Annandale's boundaries from the inception to just include lower-income feeders.

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