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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am not a general contractor but it sounds like they need to take down some non-load bearing walls and reconfigure classroom spaces. I am not certain how that gets to be millions of dollars but, again, not a contractor. Maybe someone who is can chime in on how much that takes.

Most of the expensive construction have been at schools that needed massive renovations that repaired structural issues and then expanded buildings. I can see how that can cost a lot of money. There is nothing structurally wrong with KAA, it is mainly reconfiguring existing space so it should be less expensive.

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If it were so simple and cost so little, why wouldn’t we have heard about that already?  [/quote]
If it were so difficult and would cost so much, wouldn't we have heard about that already?[/quote]

Of course not. FCPS would delay that news as long as possible.  At this looking they haven’t even managed to put out a release that the sale closed, much less clarified how the facility will be used or the total costs. [/quote]

The purchase has already been widely publicized. Why are you so mad that an official press release didn’t go out? Who cares?

https://northernvirginiamag.com/news/2025/06/17/fcps-approves-150m-purchase-of-king-abdullah-academy-private-school-in-herndon/[/quote]

The $281 million in savings is just repeating what staff claimed before the board voted to approve the deal.  No one actually thinks that’s a real number.  [/quote]

[b]$400 million to renovate/expand Centreville[/b].  This is certainly a whole lot cheaper.  And, I doubt it will reach anywhere that total even if they have to do some work.

Staff should have been on this from the announcement in May.  Reid certainly should have been on it.

But, just looking at the FCPS website and reading Reid's emails, it seems to me that the day to day education of our students is not her priority.

She likes to make a splash and she is accomplishing a belly flop.

This school is needed as a traditional high school.  It may be smaller than we would like, but it can work to solve overcrowding in this area without sending kids all over creation on a school bus for hours every day.[/quote]

The last estimate for Centreville was $296 million, not $400 million, and that was to both renovate the school and expand it to 3000 seats.  Its current capacity, excluding the modular there now, is under 2000 seats, so that was a big expansion.

At this point, we don't know what the real cost would be for KAA to open as either a magnet or a neighborhood school, or how many students it would serve.  [/quote]

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