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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Isn't the eastern side of Crossfield’s boundary is actually quite far from the new school?

Crossfield is probably the farthest of all the elementary schools under consideration from KAA.

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The eastern side of Crossfield goes to Hughes/South Lakes.

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That's only a small pocket and even that pocket would feed into KAA under Options C and D.  There are also a number of Crossfield kids east of Lawyers Road attending Carson and Oakton.  In fact, the entire Crossfield boundary sits east of Fairfax County Parkway.

I think pro Oakton families should use the fact Crossfield is the farthest of all the elementary schools under consideration.  That would be a stronger argument than “rooted in Oakton.”

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There are STILL five high schools now that are closer to our homes than Oakton. FIVE.[/quote]

There is no way to do the boundaries where you don't get stupid stuff like this unless you scrap all the schools (not boundaries but actual school locations) and start again. FCPS is old, the county has changed massively since it was founded. The older high schools were built, purposefully, near population centers when a lot of the county was still farmland. Then they over built schools relative to our current population because of the baby boom. And then as the land in Fairfax got scarce, they built them wherever they could. This is all compounded by the fact that they added middle schools (switching from a 1-7 and 8-12 system) AND racially integrated in the same year in 1960 resulting in the completely wrong mix of buildings and locations.

This particular school board is massively incompetent but the absolute best board would still have to make decisions that feel wrong and weird. There are four closer middle schools to the one we are zoned for. But there are middle schools right on top of each other and edges of the county where you are 25 minutes away from ANY middle school. You can't draw lines and fix that.[/quote]

This is a great point…even removing the neighborhoods currently at Crossfield from the equation, Oakton’s boundaries are all over the place and heavily shifted west in comparison to any other school. Looking at a map the comparison is drastic. [/quote]

Which they sort of have to be because it's 10 minutes or less to Madison, Fairfax and Woodson. Is it ideal? Of course not. But it's not fixable in the short term.[/quote]

And, an extremely large development is going up soon within its boundaries.  And, Oakton is approaching capacity at present.  Frisch brought this up at one of the meetings.  [/quote]
By my count there are 5 extremely large developments going up soon within the Oakton boundary, for a total of 3,117 housing units of various types.
[url]https://www.ffxnow.com/2025/02/21/proposed-redevelopments-on-jermantown-road-in-oakton-receive-final-approval/[/url]
Redwood Plaza:  88 single family townhouses,  186 triplexes
Flint Hill Office Park 1 & 4:  196 townhouses
Flint Hill Office Park 3 (3201 Jermantown Rd):  139 townhouses

[url]https://www.ffxnow.com/2024/05/29/sweeping-mixed-use-makeover-proposed-for-fair-oaks-business-park/[/url]
Fair Oakes Business Park:  420 multifamily apartments,  286 townhouses

[url]https://www.ffxnow.com/2025/10/21/developers-plan-to-replace-fairfax-ridge-office-building-with-housing-takes-step-forward/[/url]
Fairfax Ridge:  400 multifamily residential units

[url]https://www.ffxnow.com/2025/03/20/county-to-study-chain-bridge-road-after-making-way-for-oakton-att-site-redevelopment/[/url]
AT&T Site:  854 units

[url]https://www.ffxnow.com/2025/06/12/plan-to-redevelop-former-icf-offices-in-oakton-wins-county-boards-blessing/[/url]
ICF International Site:  472 unit apartment building,  76 townhouses
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