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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hey Great Falls Mama/Granny, a school board member just said:

"Purchasing a beautiful school complex: FCPS is in the process of procuring the former King Abdullah Academy property near Dulles to serve as our newest western high school. The property will undergo minimal renovations over the coming year with [b]plans to determine curricular programming decisions in the coming months [/b]and open the campus in the 2026-27 school year."

So, lady you are SOL. Not the standardized test kind of SOL, LOL![/quote]

Not a Great Falls poster, but the bolded portion of McElveen's comment certainly leaves open the possibility this school is going to be some type of non-traditional or magnet school.  That can't make those who are counting on KAA being converted to a neighborhood school happy.  He does call it "our newest western high school," but that can be read to merely refer to the school's location.

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DP.  I really don't believe this is going to be a magnet school of any kind.  The pushback they would get would be tremendous.  He probably just means whether it will be an AP or IB school.[/quote]

That seems unlikely to me, because the plan is to open the school in the fall of 2026 and there's a lengthy process to get IBO approval of a new IB diploma school.  [/quote]

I suspect they will absolutely discuss the possibility of making it a magnet school, but they will definitely decide against it.

Y'all still don't understand how the FCPS board works?

They already knew the answer. They probably decided this would be a community school but haven’t announced it yet and will still go through the motions.

My impression is that the board delayed discussing the acquisition until the last minute (I believe tomorrow is the actual sale date) to avoid early discussions about the school and potential criticism over 'transparency.'

Ryan McElveen stated that the property will serve as our newest western high school. That’s what they intend to do, and that’s what will happen.

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It’s a truism that it will be a western HS because it’s located in western Fairfax.  That doesn’t mean it will only serve kids in that area.  Maybe it will, but it may depend on their figuring out how many kids it can actually accommodate. A former KAA teacher has noted it was designed with a lot of administrative offices and also open spaces, so they could end up spending a lot of additional money if they really want to have a local HS for over 2000 kids.

It cracks me up when people suggest FCPS had this all figured out when they announced the agreement in principle to buy this building. It very much came across as an impulse purchase with many of the details to be worked out later. [/quote]

Oh, so you DO think that's what happened, LOL![/quote]

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