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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How can they do that when they are proposing other schools such as Oakton to have classes closer to 700.[/quote]

It's not just the size of classes, but also how many students the schools are built to accommodate.

FCPS has been expanding the high schools that it's been renovating lately, including Oakton, and has plans to expand the capacity of several other schools that aren't otherwise scheduled for a renovation (Justice, Madison, and West Potomac).  In Oakton's case, the plan is to increase the capacity to 2625 students, and there potentially might be additional space at Madison and/or South Lakes down the road, since South Lakes' capacity is now over 2700 kids and the plan to increase Madison's capacity to 2400.  Longer term, they may build an additional high school in western Fairfax that would affect Oakton, although it's hard to pin down exactly what FCPS has in mind.

McLean was left off the list of schools getting an addition, presumably because FCPS doesn't want to spend the money when they just expanded Langley as part of its renovation.  So unless FCPS does something, McLean is projected to have over 2500 kids by 2023, in a building that' was only built to accommodate 1993 students.  It's possible the projections will be off, but right now McLean has more trailers than Oakton, according to the latest CIP.

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