200+ rising 9th graders opted to Skyview from Westfields boundaries. So instead of 680 freshman Westfield will have 480 freshman. That’s where a lot of the destaffs came from. They will continue and get steeper the next few years with the redistricting plan. All Westfields young staff and many assistant coaches will be sent away.

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Anonymous wrote:All the other proposed maps in the other versions had Westfield with a more reasonable population-at least 23-400 students by pulling from Lees Corner, or Bull Run, or the Walney area, etc. This "final" map is the only one that dipped all the way down to @2000. I'm sure the Westfield people were taken aback by that.

Where were all the people thinking an enrollment of 2300 or 2400 kids is "reasonable" when FCPS was refusing to invest in other schools and downsizing them? If Westfield ends up with 2150 kids or so, it will still have an enrollment larger than nine other high schools, including Skyview.

Just curious.... what specific schools are you referring to that FCPS "refused to invest in and downsized"?

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Anonymous wrote:Westfield has a building capacity of over 3000. Leaving it at 1800 would be insane.

Could it be higher with rising 9th graders during the 2027-28 school year graders or no because of enrollment decline.?

It was around 2750 at the end of this school year. But Westfield parents have posted on here that well-liked 9th grade teachers are being destaffed and sent to other schools for next school year. I wouldn't be surprised if most of the kids opting in to Skyview for 9th next year are from Westfield. So next year Westfield will likely have a much smaller 9th grade class than its 10th, 11th and 12th grades, which will all be around 650-700 students.

Where has that been posted? I've seen some speculation,. It's just opt in coming year. I dont see how the drop would be thar extreme.

Where do you think the 500 Skyview freshmen are coming from? Logic suggests its from the school zones that everyone knows are being sent to Skyview-the Westfield parts of Floris/Coates/McNair, as well as non-sports kids whose parents think they are going to get an upgrade at Skyview vs. where their kids are now (schools seen as worse than Skyview-Westfield and SLHS). South Lakes PTA was given a specific number of opt-ins and it was pretty low; kids zoned for Chantilly and Oakton want to stay there, no one is driving their kids from farther out to Skyview. So logically (and based on what we know about de-staffs), most of the kids are kids who would be otherwise at Westfield.

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Anonymous wrote:All the other proposed maps in the other versions had Westfield with a more reasonable population-at least 23-400 students by pulling from Lees Corner, or Bull Run, or the Walney area, etc. This "final" map is the only one that dipped all the way down to @2000. I'm sure the Westfield people were taken aback by that.

Where were all the people thinking an enrollment of 2300 or 2400 kids is "reasonable" when FCPS was refusing to invest in other schools and downsizing them? If Westfield ends up with 2150 kids or so, it will still have an enrollment larger than nine other high schools, including Skyview.

Those schools with an enrollment of "2150 or so" (note: the projection has westfield at 2083) are usually in buildings built for that many students, and have had steady enrollments for years of around that many students. They didn't have a third of their students and teachers moved out with FCPS refusing to move other neighboring areas in. And, they are generally not right next to other schools bursting at the seams like CVHS and CHS will be, even after the adjustment.

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Anonymous wrote:All the other proposed maps in the other versions had Westfield with a more reasonable population-at least 23-400 students by pulling from Lees Corner, or Bull Run, or the Walney area, etc. This "final" map is the only one that dipped all the way down to @2000. I'm sure the Westfield people were taken aback by that.

Where were all the people thinking an enrollment of 2300 or 2400 kids is "reasonable" when FCPS was refusing to invest in other schools and downsizing them? If Westfield ends up with 2150 kids or so, it will still have an enrollment larger than nine other high schools, including Skyview.

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And, as a reminder, Fox Mill would not have been at South Lakes had FCPS not decided that 2000 was the max number for high schools. (Right after they had expanded Westfield.)

Anonymous wrote:All the other proposed maps in the other versions had Westfield with a more reasonable population-at least 23-400 students by pulling from Lees Corner, or Bull Run, or the Walney area, etc. This "final" map is the only one that dipped all the way down to @2000. I'm sure the Westfield people were taken aback by that.

Where were all the people thinking an enrollment of 2300 or 2400 kids is "reasonable" when FCPS was refusing to invest in other schools and downsizing them? If Westfield ends up with 2150 kids or so, it will still have an enrollment larger than nine other high schools, including Skyview.

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Anonymous wrote:Westfield has a building capacity of over 3000. Leaving it at 1800 would be insane.

Could it be higher with rising 9th graders during the 2027-28 school year graders or no because of enrollment decline.?

The building capacity does not depend on the number of students enrolled, and Westfield's building capacity was 2832 this year.

Of course, the boundary changes won't take effect in 2026-27, or all at once thereafter, so Westfield's enrollment will be well over 1800 this fall. It's the long-term vision or lack thereof for Westfield that has people worried.

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Anonymous wrote:Westfield has a building capacity of over 3000. Leaving it at 1800 would be insane.

Could it be higher with rising 9th graders during the 2027-28 school year graders or no because of enrollment decline.?

It was around 2750 at the end of this school year. But Westfield parents have posted on here that well-liked 9th grade teachers are being destaffed and sent to other schools for next school year. I wouldn't be surprised if most of the kids opting in to Skyview for 9th next year are from Westfield. So next year Westfield will likely have a much smaller 9th grade class than its 10th, 11th and 12th grades, which will all be around 650-700 students.

Where has that been posted? I've seen some speculation,. It's just opt in coming year. I dont see how the drop would be thar extreme.

(In case you don't know, teachers are destaffed when enrollment goes down based on seniority, so the youngest teachers are the first to go.)

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Anonymous wrote:Westfield has a building capacity of over 3000. Leaving it at 1800 would be insane.

Could it be higher with rising 9th graders during the 2027-28 school year graders or no because of enrollment decline.?

It was around 2750 at the end of this school year. But Westfield parents have posted on here that well-liked 9th grade teachers are being destaffed and sent to other schools for next school year. I wouldn't be surprised if most of the kids opting in to Skyview for 9th next year are from Westfield. So next year Westfield will likely have a much smaller 9th grade class than its 10th, 11th and 12th grades, which will all be around 650-700 students.

Anonymous wrote:Westfield has a building capacity of over 3000. Leaving it at 1800 would be insane.

Could it be higher with rising 9th graders during the 2027-28 school year graders or no because of enrollment decline.?

All the other proposed maps in the other versions had Westfield with a more reasonable population-at least 23-400 students by pulling from Lees Corner, or Bull Run, or the Walney area, etc. This "final" map is the only one that dipped all the way down to @2000. I'm sure the Westfield people were taken aback by that.

Westfield has a building capacity of over 3000. Leaving it at 1800 would be insane.

Anonymous wrote:If they move that Cub Run area back to Chantilly, that will leave Westfield with only around 1800 kids (depending on exact numbers from that new Brookfield split slice).

I can't think of anything stupider than buying KAA to reopen as a new school and then leaving an existing school with 600-1000 vacant seats.

But they were prepared to do it at Herndon, and they will probably do it again at Westfield.

These people have no sense of fiscal responsibility whatsoever. Meanwhile other schools are falling apart.

If they move that Cub Run area back to Chantilly, that will leave Westfield with only around 1800 kids (depending on exact numbers from that new Brookfield split slice).