Reply to FCPS Boundary Review Updates

Forum Index » Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS)

Reply to "FCPS Boundary Review Updates"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lets talk Timberlane. Is there any realistic chance it stays with McLean? Or gets transitioned into Marshall? Or is it ultimately bound for Falls Church High School?[/quote]

I will give you my perspective, and it's mine only.

Timber Lane has been bouncing around in the Thru proposals.  It's caught in the crossfire for two reasons:  (1) it's an attendance island now at Longfellow/McLean and (2) Graham Road ES currently lies within the Timber Lane boundary south of Route 29.

The BRAC slides had them both keeping Timber Lane north of Route 29 at Longfellow/McLean, except for the area off Route 29 west of Hollywood Road, which they were proposing to move to Kilmer but keep at McLean.  And then they had Timber Lane south of Route 29 moving to Longfellow but not McLean.  The proposals required them to move part of Shrevewood from Marshall to McLean to bridge the island.

The proposals in the tool deal with some of the obvious flaws.  They don't have kids going to Kilmer and then McLean any longer, or kids going to Longfellow and then Falls Church.  By any reasonable measure, those are improvements.  But they now propose to move all of Timber Lane north of Route 29 to Jackson/Falls Church, except for the area west of Hollywood Road, which they'd continue to move to Kilmer, but then also move to Marshall rather than keep it at McLean.

... [b]This alternative would not take advantage of the additional seats at Falls Church, but they aren't proposing to do anything to move kids into expanded Herndon right now, either. [/b] So it's not like they have a consistent approach to making sure they are doing something at every high school that's been expanded recently to take advantage of additional seats.

[b]TLDR version - sure, everything is going to remain in play for months, and it's possible they could revert to keeping most of Timber Lane north of Route 29 at Longfellow/McLean or entertain requests  to move to Kilmer/Marshall instead.  Area west of Hollywood Road is likely to move to Shrevewood since they've boxed themselves into making other changes to Timber Lane's boundaries south of Route 29 that will increase Timber Lane's enrollment. [/b][/quote]

A PP poster wrote that 38% of Spring Hill is now the island.  Now it has about 10 legal description sites as seen on the Mclean/Langley boundary process. New builds prior commercial zoning.  Nobody looked at this stuff.

Decrease in membership over 20 years without significant boundary changes [Middleton and Blueberry Hill to CRES were small adds from Westbriar Island to Colvin Run]:

VDOE 2004-2005 difference from 2024-2025:
Forestville + Great Falls + Colvin Run  (401) - new SFH+empty nesters+ some SINKS/DINKS
Spring Hill Elementary			207 - projected at 105% capacity CIPSY29-30

We attempted to reconcile Thru slides to current :
[b]Falls Church: slides 0 + tool 190=190 is larger than what appears to be Timber Lane Island
Mclean: slides -142 + tool - 205 = diff -63 extra  out of Mclean is Timber Lane Island?[/b]

Somebody needs to take a [b]video of the walk to Marshall from Dominion Way to George C Marshall Drive.[/b]  A bus to Mclean HS?  No way.  Another [b]video to display is the walk to Westgate.[/b]  Any other gems needed?

[/quote]

The 190-student increase in Falls Church students in the scenarios presented in the tool relates entirely to the part of the Timber Lane island that Thru now proposes to reassign to Falls Church.  They are not proposing to move anyone else into FCHS.  There is another piece of Timber Lane that Thru proposes to reasign to Marshall.

You are correct that the latest Thru proposals increase the reduction in McLean's enrollment to 205.  That's due to the net effect of several changes that weren't reflected in the earlier slides:  (1) moving the Timber Lane island to both Falls Church and Marshall (reduction), not completely offset by reassigning the Marshall-zoned part of Lemon Road to McLean (increase).  They haven't separately indicated exactly how many kids would be moved from Timber Lane to Marshall or from Lemon Road to McLean in the tool, so all you can see is the net result.

I'm sure they are getting plenty of comments that, even if they move the rest of Lemon Road to McLean, they should keep the area on the other side of Route 7 that is next door to Marshall there, as well as that they shouldn't bus kids who can walk to Westgate to Frankin Sherman.  [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics