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Anonymous wrote:Well, if they go with their current final scenario and Stone is at 99% full (861 kids), it certainly can't take 89 more students. Its a small, old unrenovated building.

That’s its program capacity. Believe the building capacity is 1050 or something close to it

Building capacity is not really relevant. Because there are programs that take up more space in a building. Program capacity is the number FCPS is using for. the boundary study for that reason.

FCPS is always playing with the program capacity numbers - it is 'flexible'. It has as much to do with teacher numbers as space. That is why the only hard number is the building capacity number.

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Who doesnt want a beautiful new spacious high school built for 3000 for only 2000 students? Sounds delightful, and a huge waste of taxpayer money with 800+ empty seats right next door.

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Anonymous wrote:The woman running against Dixit is answering questions on her social media page.

What is she saying about boundaries? I don't do Facebook.

Very little. She's the Liberty MS PTA President. She won't say anything that would antagonize Centreville HS families who don't want to get moved to Westfield.

Her main priority is getting FCPS to start renovating Centreville. She wants FCPS to go ahead and expand Centreville to 3000 seats. The school had an enrollment under 2150 this year.

She'd be Seema Dixit 2.0 but won't be on the hook for gutting Westfield, which she'd blame on Dixit.

Anonymous wrote:The woman running against Dixit is answering questions on her social media page.

What is she saying about boundaries? I don't do Facebook.

The woman running against Dixit is answering questions on her social media page.

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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.

The projection has it at only 2083, which is fewer than 2150, with the only MC neighborhood being rezoned lobbying FCPS hard to get out. There's no chance they add more kids in but based on the shenanigans so far, there's a likely chance they move kids back to Chantilly, which would leave them with 1900 or fewer.

You're right that the projection has Westfield at 2083, not 2150. That's still higher than nine other high schools based on all the boundary adjustments adopted and proposed: Herndon, Marshall, South County, Falls Church, Annandale, South Lakes, Mount Vernon, Skyview, and Lewis.

Interesting that this list of smallest schools also includes all the academic have-not schools people are desperate to avoid in FCPS and that FCPS ignores and refuses to improve. They are deliberately moving Westfield from a regular middle of the pack school down to the bottom tier of Avoid at All Cost schools.

If the only thing keeping Westfield in the middle of the pack was all those kids north of 50, then this was inevitable.

Not sure what your point is? Moving over a thousand kids out of any school with balanced demographics but only moving back in 200 or so mostly low income kids destabilizes any school community. Those areas have been zoned to Westfield for at least 25 years.

The current proposal is to move 386 kids into Westfield - 309 from Chantilly and 77 from Centreville. Not "200 or so."

It's still a sizable loss of students for Westfield, but Westfield would have more kids than nine other high schools in the county, including Skyview.

10th smallest school by population with the largest HS building capacity in the county. Make it make sense…. There is no reason Westfield doesn’t have a top 5 population. It’s because the county caved to the wealthy and connected at Chantilly and Centreville. Case closed

Westfield does not have the largest HS building capacity in FCPS. Lake Braddock and West Potomac both have more 9-12 capacity.

Westfield is still expected to have more kids than nine other high schools, including Skyview, once these changes are fully implemented.

It’s likely Westfield will stop winning state championships with a smaller student enrollment but FCPS implicitly decided smaller schools were better when it decided to buy KAA.

No they didn’t. They decided they wanted another HS in an area that didn’t have one and then they were chicken shits and backed down from doing the right thing which was to move affluent and connected neighborhoods to Westfield. It is absurd that you think it’s OK for the county to waste capacity resources and still leave Chantilly in Centerville at or over capacity. There is no excuse for the cowardly behavior. I’d give them credit if they came out and said we were too weak to make it happen.

By definition, if they are adding another high school in western Fairfax, they are at least implicitly concluding that they'd like to have more, smaller schools rather than fewer, bigger schools in terms of enrollment. You cannot open Skyview as a neighborhood school and not reduce the enrollments of other schools.

I don't think they should go out of their way and only move poorer areas into Westfield to backfill it, but Westfield has no right to have only "affluent" neighborhoods moved into the school.

The proposed changes do not leave Chantilly at or over capacity, but instead at 87% capacity. Centreville is left at 101% capacity, but there is a plan to renovate and expand the school that pre-dates the decision to open Skyview. The planned expansion should be scaled back, but it's not obvious that the best thing is to reduce Centreville to 1900 kids so that Westfield can have 2300. As things now stand, the two schools would be fairly close in terms of enrollment.

Putting aside the demographics of those proposed to move in and out of Westfield, it would still have a reasonable enrollment. If you think it's not a sufficient enrollment to support academics there, that's one thing, but that would be the case whether Westfield's capacity were 2200 students or 2800 students. When a building's capacity utilization goes down, the amount of square footage per student goes up, which some would view as a positive.

Having said that, if I were in charge of things, I wouldn't be so shy when it comes to adjusting the boundaries of the five schools within the scope of the Skyview study. I'd move more kids so that Oakton and Chantilly weren't left with significantly higher enrollments than South Lakes, Westfield, and Centreville. But they have concluded that it's in their political interests to say they moved the fewest kids necessary under the circumstances, so here we are.

Anonymous wrote:Where's the list of FCPS HS sorted by number of students? I'd like to see it.

If the boundary changes adopted earlier this year and currently proposed relating to Skyview had been fully phased in, this is what the 2025-26 enrollments would look like:

Lake Braddock 2922
West Springfield 2848
Oakton 2721
West Potomac 2558
Robinson 2549
Woodson 2471
Langley 2416
Fairfax 2344
Chantilly 2305
Madison 2227
Edison 2197
Justice 2147
Hayfield 2139
TJHSST 2125
McLean 2123
Centreville 2119
Westfield 2083
Herndon 2061
Marshall 2045
South County 2042
Falls Church 2035
South Lakes 2033
Annandale 2002
Mount Vernon 1788
Skyview 1780
Lewis 1537

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Anonymous wrote:Well, if they go with their current final scenario and Stone is at 99% full (861 kids), it certainly can't take 89 more students. Its a small, old unrenovated building.

That’s its program capacity. Believe the building capacity is 1050 or something close to it

It is still surrounded by other middle schools not even close to capacity. RRMS will be at 84% and Liberty will be at 77%. It makes no sense, especially considering they have it as Westfield's only feeder at the moment.

RRMS will be at 84% WITH the Stone AAP kids. Once they are moved back to Stone, they will have 89 fewer kids, so they wil be down in the 70s or less for percentiles.

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Anonymous wrote:Well, if they go with their current final scenario and Stone is at 99% full (861 kids), it certainly can't take 89 more students. Its a small, old unrenovated building.

That’s its program capacity. Believe the building capacity is 1050 or something close to it

It is still surrounded by other middle schools not even close to capacity. RRMS will be at 84% and Liberty will be at 77%. It makes no sense, especially considering they have it as Westfield's only feeder at the moment.

RRMS will be at 84% WITH the Stone AAP kids. Once they are moved back to Stone, they will have 89 fewer kids, so they wil be down in the 70s or less for percentiles.

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Anonymous wrote:Well, if they go with their current final scenario and Stone is at 99% full (861 kids), it certainly can't take 89 more students. Its a small, old unrenovated building.

That’s its program capacity. Believe the building capacity is 1050 or something close to it

It is still surrounded by other middle schools not even close to capacity. RRMS will be at 84% and Liberty will be at 77%. It makes no sense, especially considering they have it as Westfield's only feeder at the moment.

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Anonymous wrote:Well, if they go with their current final scenario and Stone is at 99% full (861 kids), it certainly can't take 89 more students. Its a small, old unrenovated building.

That’s its program capacity. Believe the building capacity is 1050 or something close to it

Building capacity is not really relevant. Because there are programs that take up more space in a building. Program capacity is the number FCPS is using for. the boundary study for that reason.

+1. You can't get rid of all your special education classrooms, for instance, and building capacity assumes no special ed classes.

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Anonymous wrote:Well, if they go with their current final scenario and Stone is at 99% full (861 kids), it certainly can't take 89 more students. Its a small, old unrenovated building.

That’s its program capacity. Believe the building capacity is 1050 or something close to it

Building capacity is not really relevant. Because there are programs that take up more space in a building. Program capacity is the number FCPS is using for. the boundary study for that reason.

Anonymous wrote:Well, if they go with their current final scenario and Stone is at 99% full (861 kids), it certainly can't take 89 more students. Its a small, old unrenovated building.

That’s its program capacity. Believe the building capacity is 1050 or something close to it

Well, if they go with their current final scenario and Stone is at 99% full (861 kids), it certainly can't take 89 more students. Its a small, old unrenovated building.

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Anonymous wrote:i was wrong. herndon starts implementing for 7th AAP in 2028-2029. franklin is group 4. in 2029-2030

https://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/files/DSKREP6DA992/$file/2026.04.07%20MS%20AAP%20Center%20Expansion%20Worksession.pdf

When are they putting AAP in at Stone? The current proposal leaves Stone at 99% full. There is no room to add AAP kids back in.

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The docs say they are estimating around 90 kids will be added to Stone for AAP. Um, where? The school will be completely full to the brim under the current scenario?

And they will all be moved from Rocky Run, which will only be 84% capacity under these proposals *with* the Stone AAP kids.

I can't believe how stupid these people running FCPS are. How do you change all the boundaries first without considering AAP numbers and then have this parallel process where you are phasing out AAP and redistributing all the kids back to different schools.