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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP... I doubt the county is going to buy a parcel of land large enough for a new ES (even an "urban" style one) in Tysons proper, it's going to be in the broader Tysons vicinity (read: 1 mile radius or so).

A lot of it will likely be existing schools like Spring Hill, either expanding its capacity (vertically?) and/or moving some of the kids farther north to Churchill Road to free up capacity at Spring Hill, etc... or possibly Westgate (again, only place to really grow that site is upwards, there's no real footprint available).

Or, maybe there's a new site somewhere else within a mile where the county already has land available that is appropriate size for an ES, even if the location isn't quite perfect, but at least is within very short bussing distance from the heart of Tysons. Nothing comes to mind though.[/quote]

The idea of continuing to ship ES kids in Tysons off to elementary schools in what is generously described as the “Tysons periphery” (sites like Dunn Loring and Spring Hill are NOT in Tysons) is completely misaligned with the BOS-approved plans for future schools in Tysons.  FCPS already has a call on a site in Tysons off Jones Bridge for an urban ES - it has been mentioned repeatedly in the CIP and should have been advanced rather than the Dunn Loring site, which is surrounded by under-enrolled schools, only one of which (Freedom Hill) pulls at all from Tysons.

And just try to expand Spring Hill, which is already quite large, further.  There were serious efforts by some Spring Hill parents 6-7 years ago to get a number of Tysons apartments zoned for Spring Hill administratively reassigned to Westbriar.  That plan was chugging along behind the scenes when Scott Brabrand became superintendent in 2017 and it was one of the reasons why he put a halt to administrative boundary changes.

One way or the other the BOS and FCPS need to start coordinating better when it comes to Tysons.  Dunn Loring is Exhibit A when it comes to a lack of coordination and FCPS’s continued mismanagement of capital resources at the hands of buffoons like Frisch. [/quote]

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