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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Freedom Hill is largely overcrowded, hence the redistricting toward Lemon Road last year. Lemon Road and Westgate are both potential centers for cluster 2, but both are also split feeders between Longfellow/McLean and Kilmer/Marshall. The current AAP proposal will actually shift some McLean HS families out of their own pyramid and send them to the new Cluster 2 center. It really doesn't make any sense unless they redistrict the entirety of Lemon Road and Westate to Kilmer/Marshall while they're at it. [/quote]

So, I guess this is a scenario where, say, an AAP center gets opened at Westgate, and an AAP kid zoned for Lemon Road/Longfellow/McLean now gets sent to Westgate rather than Haycock.  Not ideal, because she'll still be assigned to Longfellow rather than Kilmer, and won't know too many kids when she gets there.  But, if that prospect really unnerves a parent, she can keep her kid at Lemon Road with a slightly larger cohort of kids going to Longfellow and forego the AAP center.

I don't see much to suggest the HS boundaries in that part of the county are in play.  Not as many students showed up at Marshall this fall as FCPS had expected, but many of the feeder elementary schools - such as Freedom Hill and Shrevewood - have large enrollments.  Conversely, more students showed up at McLean this fall than expected, and it's currently above-capacity, but the enrollment is projected to go down over the next few years.  Even though Marshall is currently the smallest HS in Fairfax County, changing the boundaries there could end up having the same impact as the 2008 reditricting had on the enrollment at South Lakes (where Stu Gibson complained that South Lakes was too small at @1500 students and engineered a redistricting that's now left South Lakes as one of the most overcrowded high schools in the county).   [/quote]

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