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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What are the class rations atm or over student count for local hs? Since people keep saying ‘overcrowding’ just curious. [/quote]

The nearby high schools have some of the highest populations of any in FCPS which is a huge negative for students (impossible to make sports teams, be school leaders in any way, etc). Westfield has 2800, Chantilly has over 3000, Oakton has 2700, Centreville has 2600, etc. [/quote]

I believe someone said or they thought KAA could be a 2000 student HS school max, but that it had only 1200 students in K-12 enrolled when it closed. Not sure where the extra 800 came from but perhaps they were not using the whole space, or perhaps FCPS would redo some of the public spaces to make more classrooms. But yes that would make KAA HS the smallest in that area by far. But there are other ~2000 student HS’s in the county. South County is the next-newest building and is around 2000. Falls Church is around 2000 as well, Yorktown in Arlington and Langley both come in around 2200. As long as they could get it to 1900-2000 I don’t think people would complain. Below that and they might not be able to offer as many classes as other schools. [/quote]

Private schools tend to have smaller classes even when the classrooms could hold more students. There are also reports of several bigger spaces that could be divided into multiple classrooms.  There are also two buildings on the property that could potentially be used for classes that I don't think KAA used for classes.

A 2000 student HS is a reasonable size. We have been expanding schools because there wasn't space. This would alleviate the need to expand and provide a release valve to get the larger high schools to a more comfortable size. If the ES that feed into Carson directly are the kids moved to the new school there would be a decrease in kids at Westfield, Oakton, and SLHS. If they add Oak Hill to those numbers, then Chantilly would see a decline as well.

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