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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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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I am a parent pf kids who have long ago graduated.  I live in the Skyview area.  My neighborhood went through the boundary study for Carson, Westfield, and South Lakes.  While it would have made sense, I do not recall ever hearing anything about a Carson Secondary school.  Carson and Westfield were completed at around the same time.  Maybe a year or so apart.  
The first I heard that we had the property for a local high school was when FCPS sold the property to the Saudis more than ten years ago.  That never should have happened.

This area should never have been sent to Westfield.  But, Westfield was well regarded in its early years.  Good administration makes a difference.

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We’ve lived in Floris about 35 years so went through about 10 redistricting rounds with base and GT/AAPs when our kids were in FCPS.

The Carson Principal mentioned the design for a secondary expansion in a parents’ meeting about 23 years ago.[/quote]

In a different pyramid but our former principal told us years ago plans had been drawn up for our school’s expansion but then it never happened.  Lots of things get designed but then delayed or never implemented. [/quote]

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