NP-No one knows how the free/reduced numbers will shake out b/c FCPS won't share that information.

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Anonymous wrote:Your property values might go down, but isn't the sacrifice worth it so Seema's can go up?

Stone at 75% FARMS right next to a bunch of UMC middle schools is a choice FCPS is making, on purpose.

Where do you get this 75%?

The core of Stone/Westfield under this proposal would appear to be Cub Run (23% FARMS), Deer Park (34% FARMS), London Towne (47% FARMS), and Virginia Run (36% FARMS).

Even if the parts of other schools remaining at or moved to Westfield are poorer, I don't know how you get to 75% overall. Can you enlighten?

Not my estimate and probably an exxageration, but they also moved specific low income areas of Brookfield and Bull Run, those two areas are pretty much entirely low income kids. Stone's a small school so it wouldn't take a lot of numbers to up the percentiles.

Unless those two areas are well over 100% FARMS (lol), I don't think you or OP can defend the 75% FARMS prediction as anything other than an exaggeration.

And I'm not saying that Westfield won't end up close to Herndon within a few years, which would be a material increase in the FARMS rate, but that type of hyperbole borders on hysteria and undercuts any fact-based arguments you'd try to make.

Why is there not more outrage!?

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Anonymous wrote:Rocky Run, the closest middle school to Stone, is only 16%. I think that's interesting.

It's also the middle school Kathy Smith's kids attended. What a coincidence!

It also had a beautiful renovation done, and is slated to have hundreds of empty seats after the boundary change.

Anonymous wrote:How did Centreville only lose one low income apartment complex when their overcrowding was one of the reasons for buying Skyview in the first place?

You're just finding out now that FCPS lies shamelessly to justify what it wants to do? There is no accountability, so little incentive to tell the truth.

Between the enrollment declines at Centreville in recent years (down over 400 kids since 2022-23) and the expansion of Centreville that may still take place, "overcrowding" at Centreville was never a legitimate reason to buy KAA.

Anonymous wrote:Rocky Run, the closest middle school to Stone, is only 16%. I think that's interesting.

It's also the middle school Kathy Smith's kids attended. What a coincidence!

Rocky Run, the closest middle school to Stone, is only 16%. I think that's interesting.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your property values might go down, but isn't the sacrifice worth it so Seema's can go up?

Stone at 75% FARMS right next to a bunch of UMC middle schools is a choice FCPS is making, on purpose.

Where do you get this 75%?

The core of Stone/Westfield under this proposal would appear to be Cub Run (23% FARMS), Deer Park (34% FARMS), London Towne (47% FARMS), and Virginia Run (36% FARMS).

Even if the parts of other schools remaining at or moved to Westfield are poorer, I don't know how you get to 75% overall. Can you enlighten?

Not my estimate and probably an exxageration, but they also moved specific low income areas of Brookfield and Bull Run, those two areas are pretty much entirely low income kids. Stone's a small school so it wouldn't take a lot of numbers to up the percentiles.

Anonymous wrote:Your property values might go down, but isn't the sacrifice worth it so Seema's can go up?

Stone at 75% FARMS right next to a bunch of UMC middle schools is a choice FCPS is making, on purpose.

Where do you get this 75%?

The core of Stone/Westfield under this proposal would appear to be Cub Run (23% FARMS), Deer Park (34% FARMS), London Towne (47% FARMS), and Virginia Run (36% FARMS).

Even if the parts of other schools remaining at or moved to Westfield are poorer, I don't know how you get to 75% overall. Can you enlighten?

Anonymous wrote:How did Centreville only lose one low income apartment complex when their overcrowding was one of the reasons for buying Skyview in the first place?

Seema Dixit lives in a huge house zoned to Bull Run-Liberty-Centreville. She protected her part of bull run from being moved to stone-westfield, and made sure to move an apartment complex full of FARMs kids from CVHS to Westfield. Lowered the FARMs rate at Liberty-CVHS and increased her property values. Ca-Ching.

How did Centreville only lose one low income apartment complex when their overcrowding was one of the reasons for buying Skyview in the first place?

SLHS is losing over 300 kids. They will have a lot of teachers de-staffed as well.

Anonymous wrote:I actually think Westfield and South Lakes will be OK.

The enrollment number under the final scenario:

Centreville: 2,119
Westfield: 2,083
South Lakes: 2,033
Skyview: 1780

They are losing 800 students and what, 25% at least of their staff? These other schools are used to around those numbers, there won't be a huge change for them. Those other schools also didn't have a SB member plotting basically to screw them with moving only new low income areas to their school.

I actually think Westfield and South Lakes will be OK.

The enrollment number under the final scenario:

Centreville: 2,119
Westfield: 2,083
South Lakes: 2,033
Skyview: 1780

Anonymous wrote:Stone and Franklin have the exact same floor plan.

I am not familiar with Stone but Franklin is so small! Tiny. How can that size middle school be the only feeder to Westfield, a 2800++ seat high school?