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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

If you combine all Five of those you get 790 as a class size with 58 percent FARMS rate 
Take out McNair it’s a manageable 616 kids as the class size with a 68 percent FARMS rate.

For reference Mount Vernon HS is only 60 percent FARMS………
So yes such a Western HS will end up potentially having the highest FARMS HS in the entire county.

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Which is why they are not going to assign that combination of schools to Western High, as has been pointed out repeatedly.

You seem to think you’re making a clever argument, but you’re not. [/quote]

This was just to show that is very ***possible*** to create a Western Mount Vernon HS caliber school against those saying otherwise. Why bus kids from Oak Hill/Fox Mill when you have nearby Herndon and Dogwood. But hey if one wants to waste millions in extra fuel costs just to achieve racial and economic balancing at the expense of hiring and raising teacher pay, I dare say and bet the way I think the school board will proceed. [/quote]

If long bus trips offend you, you should be a lot more concerned about kids traveling 13 miles to Langley now than about the possibility that kids who live in the Oak Hill part of Herndon might travel four miles to a high school near Hutchison in the future.  [/quote]

Yes which is why I suggested Forestville/Great Falls be brought down south to Herndon HS to make up for the lost Hutchinson/Herndon kids. but thanks for incorrectly suggesting otherwise. Though I am a political moderate I have been called ugly and even racist for suggesting that Hutchinson HS not bus the Fox Mill/Oak Hill kids over and that is what I am upset about. Why are people upset Hutchinson’s natural boundaries essentially form a center of poverty and seek to “remedy” an artificial diversity problem.Why do the hispanic kids need more white/Asian kids in their school to succeed? isn’t this exactly a self fulfilling prophecy?  They are the racists themselves for implying that the hispanic kids can’t succeed unless surrounded by wealthier peers. Poorer schools are given not only equal but more resources per capita via FCPS’ staffing model, but yet people continually suggest to break up the Oak Hill community to remedy Problems elsewhere.

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There is never going to be a Hutchison High School.  That piece of land is too small.  They were looking at property on the other side of the toll road but condos are being built over there now.  Forget that idea.[/quote]

Counting the county park - there is already more land than Fairfax HS- for comparison. The apartment owner adjacent to the west is willing to sell- and then you get to another county property --Cricket grounds. 
There is enough grounds currently- can expand surface area- if desired. However, the location makes it difficult for traffic. IF they are going to build- Where else is there sufficient land?[/quote]

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