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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Follow up to my prev question - will FCPS move Franklin out of Region 5 now that it's going to primarily be an Oakton feeder (the majority of kids will go to Oakton).[/quote]
It’s hard to say. Carson currently falls under the Oakton pyramid even though it sits well into Westfields’s boundaries and Crossfield is the only Oakton school that feeds to it. Seeing as every high school pyramid has at least one middle school, it would make sense for Carson to move to the Skyview pyramid and for Franklin to by reassigned to Oakton. However, logic has never been this district’s strong point, and I could see Oakton going without a middle school in their pyramid simply because Franklin is in Lees Corners’ boundaries. [/quote]

They will have to move Franklin to being the Oakton MS since Carson is going to be Skyview. Meren actually tried to defend not turning Carson into a Skyview feeder because Carson was Oakton's MS at a meeting I attended. [/quote]

What a joke that it was ever considered Oakton's middle school.

This area of western Fairfax has no cohesive pyramids.  Franklin has been a split feeder forever.  It used to be just Chantilly/Oakton.  And, since Fox Mill went to SL, I'm pretty sure far more went to Westfield than Oakton or South Lakes.

We may get a cohesive pyramid with Skyview/Carson.
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Prior to the 2008 boundary changes, FMES was at Oakton with Crossfield. I think part of Floris might have been at Oakton, but I am not certain. There was a larger percentage of Oakton HS kids at Carson before the 2008 changes, which is why Carson was Oakton's MS. The boundary shifts impacted that number and makes it head scratching that Carson is considered Oakton's MS.

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When Carson was built, Floris was zoned to Oakton as were the other Carson feeders.  Carson was designed/intended to be expanded into a secondary with athletic facilities on the KAA/Skyview property.  At that point, the feeders would have simply switched from Oakton to Carson SS and a reasonable pyramid.  Instead, they built Westfield larger than then permitted, redistricted Floris to Westfield, and, having totally messed up projections for Westfield's student population, immediately turned around and expanded Westfield rather than building out Carson.

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It raises an interesting question as to whether FCPS should be working with its existing capacity or adding capacity to atone for past decisions that weren’t ideal.

You can see both points of view being implicitly expressed when it comes to Westfield.  You have posters saying Skyview will serve kids who never should have been assigned to Westfield and others arguing Westfield should be maintained above 85% of its very large capacity.

I do know that, if we say FCPS should add capacity to make amends for bad decisions in the past, there are other areas where they should be adding capacity rather than just changing boundaries. [/quote]

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