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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The materials for the Work Session have now been posted.

http://www.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=9PANAF5EF993

The materials are far more detailed and transparent about the range of options and their potential timing than anything included in CIP materials for many years.

There are lots of options identified that would potentially affect different schools over the next decade, but the biggest theme seems to be that we cannot maintain the AAP centers in their current form, as they skew enrollments at too many schools, leading to schools that are both seriously overcrowded and significantly underenrolled.   There are many suggestions to move kids out of overcrowded centers like Kilmer and Longfellow.

I was also pleased to see Facilities admit that some of its short-term projections were seriously off, although they don't seem to identify when the latest projections were developed.  Had they used the projections made public in the spring of 2014, some of the differences between the projected vs. actual fall 2014 enrollments would have been even larger.      [/quote]

Thank you for posting this link.

Have you seen any data on # of students receiving Level IV AAP services to be moved from one school to another? I cannot locate it in the attachments.[/quote]

I'm not entirely sure what you mean, but if you look at the maps at Attachment C you get some feel for the potential impact.  So, for example, Map 10 at p. 11 of Attachment C reflects a projected future movement of 250 AAP students from Kilmer to Thoreau and 150 AAP students from Jackson to Thoreau.  And Map 7 at p. 8 of Attachment C reflects a proposed future movement of AAP students out of Kilmer and Longfellow to Cooper, although some of the other Kilmer numbers on that slide are wrong.

And then if you look at the summary in the main document, you see that Facilities has suggested that Thoreau might get an AAP center in the 2017-18 time frame (p. 15), whereas Cooper might get an AAP center in the 2019-21 time frame (p. 14).  Those dates are based on when the renovations at Thoreau and Cooper are expected to be completed.

You may have entirely different schools in mind, but that gives you some idea as to how the information ties together.  All of these "solutions" are described as "options" for the different Board Members to consider for their districts.  [/quote]

Thank you for taking the time to go into those details.

I am looking Belvedere ES. From what I am reading, Map 17 (referred to at the bottom of page 17 in the summary document, Attachment A) would send AAP students from Belvedere to either Annandale Terrace or Braddock.  Belvedere is in a different high school pyramid (Stuart).

From the feeder school enrollment numbers from 2012-2013:

http://fcag.org/documents/aap_center_data/aap_enrollment_1213.pdf

Belvedere had 62 students across grades 3 - 5 attending the AAP center. So for this option, they will take the larger number of students and put them on a bus to attend a school outside their pyramid to join 27 students (Annandale Terrace, Braddock and North Springfield combined) for a total of 89 students over grades 3 - 5.

I have to say these numbers just seem very wrong. I also cannot see the logic of busing more kids, and out of their high school pyramid.[/quote]

Part of the problem is trying to reconcile historical information about the number of students from different schools that feed into AAP centers and proposals that are based on unstated assumptions as to how large those programs will be at some point in the future.

Currently, there are several schools outside the Stuart pyramid that send their AAP kids to Belvedere - the portion of Mason Crest zoned for Poe/Falls Church (which oddly enough is in the Annandale pyramid, even though no Mason Crest kids are zoned for Annandale), Columbia and Weyanoke (Annandale pyramid) and Bren Mar Park (still in the Annandale pyramid, although all the kids are now zoned for Edison).   In addition, some of Parklawn goes to Holmes/Annandale, even though the school is in the Stuart pyramid.

So there certainly is some potential to send those kids to AAP centers that are better aligned with the HS pyramids.   In this case, I think FCPS is assuming that the total AAP enrollment at Belvedere will be larger than the 150 students in 2012-13, and that 55 students who may not be in the Stuart pyramid can be moved to a new center at Annandale Terrace or Braddock.     [/quote]

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