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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Is it even possible to start a new magnet school for the 2026–2027 school year? It seems very daunting to me.

I don’t understand why some people overthink Ryan’s message.

He clearly stated that the property will serve as a new western high school, with curricular programming decisions to be made in the coming months.

To me this means they will determine the curriculum, including programs like foreign languages and academies, for the new western high school.

I see no mention of a magnet school.

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Read what you want into the statement. The only thing that’s clear is that they continue to give themselves a lot of flexibility. [/quote]

I agree with this sentiment. There are some people who really want it to be a neighborhood school, which I get, and it probably will end up being one, but anyone who claims that it’s absolutely certain to be a neighborhood school is just flying willfully blind here. There is not certainty on anything with the school yet (including whether it even opens in 2026).[/quote]
If by "some" you mean literally everyone on the west end of the county who have a long commute or an overcrowded school then yeah.  Then there are the rest of us who are happy to see FCPS finally open a new school and slow the march toward 3,000 student mega-schools.[/quote]

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