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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m concerned they will make this a magnet school or something that won’t really help with capacity issues in the area. One of the board members floated that idea in an article (from WTOP?). That article also mentioned getting community input. Who knows what that will mean. Everyone is going to have their pet agenda, ugh.[/quote]

Gee.  Thanks for that.  I googled it.  It was Mateo Dunne.
https://wtop.com/fairfax-county/2025/06/fairfax-co-plans-to-buy-closing-private-school-with-eye-on-opening-first-new-high-school-in-decades/

That would be a terrible idea.  We need relief from long commutes.[/quote]

The issue is how much capacity the school will have with interior modifications.  They can't slap an addition onto this school because they've said it's a $150M turnkey purchase.

So the final use may turn out to be for special education services or perhaps an IB magnet.

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The school is not small.  Just because the private school with the 8:1 student/teacher ratio only had 1000 kids doesn't mean it can only hold 1000.  As far as square footage it is exactly the same size as Centreville HS.  They may need to partition a few giant kindergarten rooms into separate classrooms, but that is trivial.[/quote]

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