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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Side topic, but how could the school board redistrict to make Woodson a school with a 10% FARMS and Annandale a 54% FARMS rate, 2nd lowest in the county???[/quote]

The changes at Annandale started when FCPS turned Thomas Jefferson into a magnet school and sent everyone who'd previously been at Jefferson to Annandale. That meant Annandale ended up overcrowded and with two concentrations of low-income apartments off Route 236: one west of Landmark that had gone to Jefferson and another right inside the Beltway that had always been at Annandale. Then, to deal with the overcrowding, FCPS started moving other single-family neighborhoods to other schools: Falls Church, Lake Braddock, Woodson and Edison.  It still has some single-family areas, but they don't have as many kids as the apartments. Meanwhile, Woodson, to the west, has always had almost exclusively single-family neighborhoods, although it's become somewhat more diverse since FCPS moved the Fairfax Villa area from Fairfax HS there a few years ago.  Add to the mix the fact that AHS is IB, so kids can pupil place out to Woodson and other AP schools, and you end up with two schools that are close to each other but have very different demographics.[/quote]

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