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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]*Reads this thread and cries in Alexandrian.*[/quote]

No one knows what this means.[/quote]

I understood it. Alexandria has the largest high school in the state, way larger than Arlington ones.[/quote]

Yep. These folks don’t know what a large high school really is…
And that’s good![/quote]

Alexandria has 4500 students, across two high school campuses (with two large campuses each with their own administrator/principal) on 38 acres.

WL is 2500 (but aiming to head to capacity of 2700), on its one 20 acre campus.

WL has more student density; 125 vs 118 students/acre, and will eventually jump to 135 vs 118 when 2700 reached.

APS actually view ACPS as a model to emulate, that’s why they hired Duncan who served as administrator on one campus and executive principal.  APS views him as the ideal leader to manage W-L's own transition into a more "urban," multi-building high school model. [/quote]

The W-L campus also includes APS owned land across the street in Quincy Park. That adds to the acreage. Students use those fields for PE and sports. There are plenty of urban or older suburban high schools on smaller sites all around the country.

A "Multi-building" approach is different from Alexandria. The W-L annex was gutted and renovated to provide a cost savings and to preserve the unique, historic, architecture and planetarium. Moreover, the community and neighborhood opposed an option that would've built a brand new building directly connected to the main W-L building.

The model used at W-L is nothing like the academy model of ACPS which has two separate campuses that requires a bus ride. [/quote]

So its possibly only just as dense as ACHS. Maybe.  Have to see how much field vs building space for the two campuses to know how dense schools are day to day.

But its clear APS hired Duncan because of his experience with a huge school population, do you not remember the uproar at his announcement?  How much was he able to improve performance at ACHS?  APS plans to maximize that capacity at WL. [/quote]

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