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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Want to add that would be <2300 kids for the entire new Western HS with those six elementary schools. Including 1). leakage to TJHSST 2). Some HS dropouts taken into consideration. Which would be similar to South Lakes, Oakton, and Chantilly HS once those kids are removed. The question is how much a depleted Westfield can then backfill with Centreville. [/quote]

Well, you’re going to move Bull Run into Westfield and Willow Springs into Centreville.  And then there is a split feeder like Powell that could consolidate at Centreville as well.

Ultimately will this end up turning Fairfax HS exclusively into a school for Fairfax City students?  [/quote]

No, kids from Fairfax Villa will move from Woodson to backfill Fairfax, and we can make all these schools a little less massive.[/quote]

Making all these schools "a little less massive" could have been decided upon years ago, but that wasn't how FCPS decided to roll.  Westfield was always big, Langley got expanded to almost 2400 seats, South Lakes got expanded to almost 2500 seats, Oakton got expanded to almost 2650 seats, and Herndon got expanded to almost 2750 seats.  We all paid for that additional capacity to serve kids in western Fairfax, and now we're expected to pay for another school out near Carson so some of these expanded schools can have hundreds of empty seats?  [/quote]

Of course the county could play the capacity game and shufffle kids around every 5 years as enrollments at high schools rise and fall.  I am in a community that unfortunately falls on a boundary line and thus we are staring down our 3rd different high school in the last 20 years.  The Western High School would give us an opportunity at stability for once. Sure some schools might not be at 105% capacity, but that’s a good thing.  [/quote]

There was no guarantee the Thru proposals would happen.  People were pointing out the projected enrollment declines at schools like Chantilly and other schools serving western Fairfax besides Centreville (already slated for an expansion) are below capacity.

As a group we’re looking at a set of western high schools that collectively are projected to be at about 82% capacity if KAA becomes an FCPS high school.  That’s a lot of excess capacity that apparently could should have been added elsewhere. [/quote]

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