The "final" scenario has centreville at 101% capacity with 2118 students **in a building that only holds 2098 students**

(Leaving CVHS with around 1850-1900 students would put it exactly in FCPS's right size guidelines for building capacity BTW).

It has Westfield with 2083 students at 74% capacity in a building that holds 2800+ students. (And this includes the Brookfield walkers who everyone agrees should be moved back to Chantilly)

It has Chantilly with 2642 students at 99% capacity in a building that holds 2649 students.

These numbers are ridiculous. They need to pull more kids out of Chantilly and Centreville.

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Anonymous wrote:Even if Centreville is expanded, the capacity won't be there until the next round of boundary adjustments. They can't even reach an agreement with the county on the plans. Extra seats there are many years away.

Centreville is not that overcrowded now (under 105%) and emptying it out would reduce the pressure to do what FCPS should have done already, which is reach an agreement with the Park Authority to renew the lease that allows for the current/planned student populations.

So you don't want to reduce overcrowding at Centreville--one of the reasons the new school was purchased--so you can keep pressure on FCPS to spend a fortune giving you a brand new school with a thousand unfillable seats? When there are 800 open seats right next door at Westfield?

Fascinating.

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Anonymous wrote:Even if Centreville is expanded, the capacity won't be there until the next round of boundary adjustments. They can't even reach an agreement with the county on the plans. Extra seats there are many years away.

Centreville is not that overcrowded now (under 105%) and emptying it out would reduce the pressure to do what FCPS should have done already, which is reach an agreement with the Park Authority to renew the lease that allows for the current/planned student populations.

So you don't think anyone should be moved out of Centreville?

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Anonymous wrote:6404 is Seema's SPA. Pretty clear they and 6401 should have gone to Westfield. They border Westfield neighborhoods and are very far away from CVHS.

100% agree.

who's going to stand up at the meeting and point out she lives in 6404 and 6404 was moved in fourteen different maps to WF?

I don’t think you are going to be able to revive an earlier proposal that would leave Centreville with only 1825 or so kids, if that’s what you have in mind. Westfield is freaking out about going down to 2083.

I don't think losing 100- 150 students has the same effect on classes, electives and staff as losing 600-700 students.

Overcrowding at Centreville was one of the reasons given for buying the new school. The current plan only moves out 70 kids and leaves it still overcrowded.

Centreville has lost 400 kids over the past few years. Pull several hundred more out as originally floated and the cumulative impact is equal to what may happen at Westfield, plus Centreville would have 300 fewer students.

You are not going to get what you want at Westfield by gutting Centreville.

Where did the 400 kids go? If that's just due to an aging population in the area, then expanding the capacity seems very foolish.

Over the long term, keeping high schools open and adding some capacity when schools are renovated has served FCPS better than closing high schools. That doesn’t mean Centreville still needs to be expanded to 3000, nor does it mean its enrollment should be reduced to 1800 now just so Westfield can remain at 2400.

Westfield had 2750 students this year.

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Anonymous wrote:New-ish to this issue and trying to catch up. One thing I did just notice is that the numbers for Oakton HS are different in different docs on FCPS website. In the original "options" plans, it's listed at currently 98% current utilization, but in the zone map, it shows 103% current utilization. IMO that's a big swing/discrepancy.
https://www.fcps.edu/system/files/forms/2025-10/western_high_school_options.pdf
https://fcpswesternboundary.org/

The first options may have been based on 2024-25 enrollment. The most recent options are based on 2025-26 enrollment. All the boundary changes approved in January 2026 were based on 2024-25 enrollments.

Interesting, but still a big swing - that would equal an additional at least 126 kids in the 25/26 school year. There are currently 1,435 new housing units approved in the school zone, which would mean another at least 100/150 high schoolers and another 5% of additional capacity at Oakton. Is Oakton not being touched in this "final" recommendation solely because it's the involved parents complaining vs. Westfield?

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Anonymous wrote:New-ish to this issue and trying to catch up. One thing I did just notice is that the numbers for Oakton HS are different in different docs on FCPS website. In the original "options" plans, it's listed at currently 98% current utilization, but in the zone map, it shows 103% current utilization. IMO that's a big swing/discrepancy.
https://www.fcps.edu/system/files/forms/2025-10/western_high_school_options.pdf
https://fcpswesternboundary.org/

tyty

Maybe playing with everchanging program capacity?

No program capacity did not change. It was 2642 for both school years. Enrollment jumped from 2601 to 2711 between the 24-25 and 25-26 school years.

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Anonymous wrote:New-ish to this issue and trying to catch up. One thing I did just notice is that the numbers for Oakton HS are different in different docs on FCPS website. In the original "options" plans, it's listed at currently 98% current utilization, but in the zone map, it shows 103% current utilization. IMO that's a big swing/discrepancy.
https://www.fcps.edu/system/files/forms/2025-10/western_high_school_options.pdf
https://fcpswesternboundary.org/

The first options may have been based on 2024-25 enrollment. The most recent options are based on 2025-26 enrollment. All the boundary changes approved in January 2026 were based on 2024-25 enrollments.

+1

Although they nixed the move of Fairfax Acres to Oakton based on the unexpected spike in enrollment for the 25-26 school year (and because they’d over enrolled Thoreau with Wolftrap kids.)

Anonymous wrote:New-ish to this issue and trying to catch up. One thing I did just notice is that the numbers for Oakton HS are different in different docs on FCPS website. In the original "options" plans, it's listed at currently 98% current utilization, but in the zone map, it shows 103% current utilization. IMO that's a big swing/discrepancy.
https://www.fcps.edu/system/files/forms/2025-10/western_high_school_options.pdf
https://fcpswesternboundary.org/

tyty

Maybe playing with everchanging program capacity?

Anonymous wrote:New-ish to this issue and trying to catch up. One thing I did just notice is that the numbers for Oakton HS are different in different docs on FCPS website. In the original "options" plans, it's listed at currently 98% current utilization, but in the zone map, it shows 103% current utilization. IMO that's a big swing/discrepancy.
https://www.fcps.edu/system/files/forms/2025-10/western_high_school_options.pdf
https://fcpswesternboundary.org/

The first options may have been based on 2024-25 enrollment. The most recent options are based on 2025-26 enrollment. All the boundary changes approved in January 2026 were based on 2024-25 enrollments.

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Anonymous wrote:6404 is Seema's SPA. Pretty clear they and 6401 should have gone to Westfield. They border Westfield neighborhoods and are very far away from CVHS.

100% agree.

who's going to stand up at the meeting and point out she lives in 6404 and 6404 was moved in fourteen different maps to WF?

I don’t think you are going to be able to revive an earlier proposal that would leave Centreville with only 1825 or so kids, if that’s what you have in mind. Westfield is freaking out about going down to 2083.

I don't think losing 100- 150 students has the same effect on classes, electives and staff as losing 600-700 students.

Overcrowding at Centreville was one of the reasons given for buying the new school. The current plan only moves out 70 kids and leaves it still overcrowded.

Centreville has lost 400 kids over the past few years. Pull several hundred more out as originally floated and the cumulative impact is equal to what may happen at Westfield, plus Centreville would have 300 fewer students.

You are not going to get what you want at Westfield by gutting Centreville.

Where did the 400 kids go? If that's just due to an aging population in the area, then expanding the capacity seems very foolish.

Over the long term, keeping high schools open and adding some capacity when schools are renovated has served FCPS better than closing high schools. That doesn’t mean Centreville still needs to be expanded to 3000, nor does it mean its enrollment should be reduced to 1800 now just so Westfield can remain at 2400.

New-ish to this issue and trying to catch up. One thing I did just notice is that the numbers for Oakton HS are different in different docs on FCPS website. In the original "options" plans, it's listed at currently 98% current utilization, but in the zone map, it shows 103% current utilization. IMO that's a big swing/discrepancy.
https://www.fcps.edu/system/files/forms/2025-10/western_high_school_options.pdf
https://fcpswesternboundary.org/

Anonymous wrote:Even if Centreville is expanded, the capacity won't be there until the next round of boundary adjustments. They can't even reach an agreement with the county on the plans. Extra seats there are many years away.

Centreville is not that overcrowded now (under 105%) and emptying it out would reduce the pressure to do what FCPS should have done already, which is reach an agreement with the Park Authority to renew the lease that allows for the current/planned student populations.

Is Seema posting on here lol

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Anonymous wrote:6404 is Seema's SPA. Pretty clear they and 6401 should have gone to Westfield. They border Westfield neighborhoods and are very far away from CVHS.

100% agree.

who's going to stand up at the meeting and point out she lives in 6404 and 6404 was moved in fourteen different maps to WF?

I don’t think you are going to be able to revive an earlier proposal that would leave Centreville with only 1825 or so kids, if that’s what you have in mind. Westfield is freaking out about going down to 2083.

I don't think losing 100- 150 students has the same effect on classes, electives and staff as losing 600-700 students.

Overcrowding at Centreville was one of the reasons given for buying the new school. The current plan only moves out 70 kids and leaves it still overcrowded.

Centreville has lost 400 kids over the past few years. Pull several hundred more out as originally floated and the cumulative impact is equal to what may happen at Westfield, plus Centreville would have 300 fewer students.

You are not going to get what you want at Westfield by gutting Centreville.

What areas do you think make sense to be moved out of Centreville to Westfield to reduce the overcrowding at Centreville?

+1?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:6404 is Seema's SPA. Pretty clear they and 6401 should have gone to Westfield. They border Westfield neighborhoods and are very far away from CVHS.

100% agree.

who's going to stand up at the meeting and point out she lives in 6404 and 6404 was moved in fourteen different maps to WF?

I don’t think you are going to be able to revive an earlier proposal that would leave Centreville with only 1825 or so kids, if that’s what you have in mind. Westfield is freaking out about going down to 2083.

I don't think losing 100- 150 students has the same effect on classes, electives and staff as losing 600-700 students.

Overcrowding at Centreville was one of the reasons given for buying the new school. The current plan only moves out 70 kids and leaves it still overcrowded.

Centreville has lost 400 kids over the past few years. Pull several hundred more out as originally floated and the cumulative impact is equal to what may happen at Westfield, plus Centreville would have 300 fewer students.

You are not going to get what you want at Westfield by gutting Centreville.

Where did the 400 kids go? If that's just due to an aging population in the area, then expanding the capacity seems very foolish.