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Anonymous wrote:I wonder how this planned development at Beyer’s could affect enrollment at FCHS, Marshall, McLean, and/or Meridian, and thus the boundaries. The large multifamily development will cross the FCC and Fairfax County lines, so one would presume if you live anywhere in the development, you would have a choice of school systems.

https://www.arlnow.com/2025/05/20/redevelopment-proposal-in-falls-churchs-west-end-passes-first-hurdle/

That is Falls Church City. FCC council has decide they want to turn FCC into Clarendon.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wonder how this planned development at Beyer’s could affect enrollment at FCHS, Marshall, McLean, and/or Meridian, and thus the boundaries. The large multifamily development will cross the FCC and Fairfax County lines, so one would presume if you live anywhere in the development, you would have a choice of school systems.

https://www.arlnow.com/2025/05/20/redevelopment-proposal-in-falls-churchs-west-end-passes-first-hurdle/

That is Falls Church City. FCC council has decide they want to turn FCC into Clarendon.

Anonymous wrote:I wonder how this planned development at Beyer’s could affect enrollment at FCHS, Marshall, McLean, and/or Meridian, and thus the boundaries. The large multifamily development will cross the FCC and Fairfax County lines, so one would presume if you live anywhere in the development, you would have a choice of school systems.

https://www.arlnow.com/2025/05/20/redevelopment-proposal-in-falls-churchs-west-end-passes-first-hurdle/

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I still think the long game is to close Lewis in a few years. It’s one of the few schools where they reduce program capacity year after year to stay right around 85% capacity, which used to be their tipping point for capacity surplus. The program capacity used to be 2000 students and now it’s below 1900.

My own personal modest proposal for that area (and I realize it’s a very long game thing and also FCPS never has enough money to make big moves like this) is making Edison the vocational/trades magnet for all the pyramids for which it makes sense to go there, since it is pretty centrally located and has a lot of the specialty classrooms already. So it could get any vocational student from Edison, Lewis, MV, WePo, Hayfield, Annandale, Justice, WS, South County, maybe even further out to LB, Robinson, Woodson etc. if it makes sense. Then give Lewis a nice, showplace renovation and expansion and combine the current attendance area for Lewis and Edison. Make it an AP school too. It would probably be the biggest FCPS HS but not by much, and with such a large enrollment, they could really offer a lot of different classes even if the overall student body was not the highest SES in FCPS. Kids would stop transferring out unless they wanted vocational, IB, or a really specialized language, and a nice building would be a showplace for the community.

Centreville is the last high school in the old 2008 renovation queue. At some point they'll release a new queue and they'll have to decide whether the next high schools in the queue are those built after Centreville (Westfield and South County) or whether they are going to prioritize renovations of the oldest schools built decades earlier that got the cheapest "renovations: in the early 2000s. If the latter, they should be renovating Annandale, McLean, Lewis, Madison, and Justice in that order. The idea that they should plow an especially large amount of money into Lewis when it's been losing rather than gaining kids should be DOA.

I don't know what Westfield looks like, but South County is in much better condition than Lewis.

SoCo looks younger than its 20 year old age.

Lewis looks like it hasn't been touched since the 1960s.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, that makes things interesting… it definitely does impact boundary changes:

“FCPS’s ongoing One Fairfax policy appears to have birthed other discriminatory policies. For example, according to public reports, in October 2022 FCPS “signed a nine-month, $455,000 contract with an ‘equity’ consultant, whose strategy plan for the Virginia school district promised ‘equal outcomes for every student, without exception.’””

That is not the Thru contract. And to me, Thru’s scenarios have absolutely nothing to do with One Fairfax and everything to do with randomly moving a puzzle piece to see if it fits.

Anonymous wrote:Well, that makes things interesting… it definitely does impact boundary changes:

“FCPS’s ongoing One Fairfax policy appears to have birthed other discriminatory policies. For example, according to public reports, in October 2022 FCPS “signed a nine-month, $455,000 contract with an ‘equity’ consultant, whose strategy plan for the Virginia school district promised ‘equal outcomes for every student, without exception.’””

Anonymous wrote:Question -- if you have an elementary school where everyone continues on to the same middle school but then students from that elementary school split off into different high schools, would the elementary school be considered a split-feeder? Or is there different terminology for this?

Anonymous wrote:Question -- if you have an elementary school where everyone continues on to the same middle school but then students from that elementary school split off into different high schools, would the elementary school be considered a split-feeder? Or is there different terminology for this?

Anonymous wrote:Question -- if you have an elementary school where everyone continues on to the same middle school but then students from that elementary school split off into different high schools, would the elementary school be considered a split-feeder? Or is there different terminology for this?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I still think the long game is to close Lewis in a few years. It’s one of the few schools where they reduce program capacity year after year to stay right around 85% capacity, which used to be their tipping point for capacity surplus. The program capacity used to be 2000 students and now it’s below 1900.

My own personal modest proposal for that area (and I realize it’s a very long game thing and also FCPS never has enough money to make big moves like this) is making Edison the vocational/trades magnet for all the pyramids for which it makes sense to go there, since it is pretty centrally located and has a lot of the specialty classrooms already. So it could get any vocational student from Edison, Lewis, MV, WePo, Hayfield, Annandale, Justice, WS, South County, maybe even further out to LB, Robinson, Woodson etc. if it makes sense. Then give Lewis a nice, showplace renovation and expansion and combine the current attendance area for Lewis and Edison. Make it an AP school too. It would probably be the biggest FCPS HS but not by much, and with such a large enrollment, they could really offer a lot of different classes even if the overall student body was not the highest SES in FCPS. Kids would stop transferring out unless they wanted vocational, IB, or a really specialized language, and a nice building would be a showplace for the community.

Centreville is the last high school in the old 2008 renovation queue. At some point they'll release a new queue and they'll have to decide whether the next high schools in the queue are those built after Centreville (Westfield and South County) or whether they are going to prioritize renovations of the oldest schools built decades earlier that got the cheapest "renovations: in the early 2000s. If the latter, they should be renovating Annandale, McLean, Lewis, Madison, and Justice in that order. The idea that they should plow an especially large amount of money into Lewis when it's been losing rather than gaining kids should be DOA.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I still think the long game is to close Lewis in a few years. It’s one of the few schools where they reduce program capacity year after year to stay right around 85% capacity, which used to be their tipping point for capacity surplus. The program capacity used to be 2000 students and now it’s below 1900.

My own personal modest proposal for that area (and I realize it’s a very long game thing and also FCPS never has enough money to make big moves like this) is making Edison the vocational/trades magnet for all the pyramids for which it makes sense to go there, since it is pretty centrally located and has a lot of the specialty classrooms already. So it could get any vocational student from Edison, Lewis, MV, WePo, Hayfield, Annandale, Justice, WS, South County, maybe even further out to LB, Robinson, Woodson etc. if it makes sense. Then give Lewis a nice, showplace renovation and expansion and combine the current attendance area for Lewis and Edison. Make it an AP school too. It would probably be the biggest FCPS HS but not by much, and with such a large enrollment, they could really offer a lot of different classes even if the overall student body was not the highest SES in FCPS. Kids would stop transferring out unless they wanted vocational, IB, or a really specialized language, and a nice building would be a showplace for the community.