Anonymous
Post 04/14/2026 12:41     Subject: Skyview Information for Families of Attending Kids
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Kids from Stone as well went on the tour.

I'm interested in how they are going to fill the classes at so many levels with at least 32 students per class. There will likely only be one section of the APs they will have which will make scheduling very challenging.


They need 15 kids to run a class, it doesn't have to be full.


What are you talking about? The classroom budget FCPS gives principals for high schools is 32 kids per classroom. High schools cancel electives or APs if they don't have 32 kids interested in the class.

Did this high school get a special, different staffing budget?
Anonymous
Post 04/14/2026 12:40     Subject: Skyview Information for Families of Attending Kids
THere is no way logistically to do "teams" or "pods" with all the schedule constraints they will have due to the low population.
Anonymous
Post 04/14/2026 12:39     Subject: Skyview Information for Families of Attending Kids
Anonymous wrote:Kids from Stone as well went on the tour.

I'm interested in how they are going to fill the classes at so many levels with at least 32 students per class. There will likely only be one section of the APs they will have which will make scheduling very challenging.


They need 15 kids to run a class, it doesn't have to be full.
Anonymous
Post 04/14/2026 12:39     Subject: Re:Skyview Information for Families of Attending Kids
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My child did not do a great job of explaining the 1 day core subject concept to us. My big question is how will it work for kids who do not have their core classes with a group of kids. For example, DS is hoping to take AP Human Geography, Algebra 2, Honors English, and Honors Biology.

The concept sounds great, I am just curious how it will work.

He also said that there were about 200 kids there from Carson and some from Hughes, but he did not mention other MSs. Do we know what MSs attended yesterday? Hughes was a bit of a surprise to me, I am not sure if those were Floris kids, who I thought were at Carson but I could be wrong.


What are you talking about? Anyone at Hughes zoned for South Lakes had as much right to apply as anyone zoned for Carson.


Could also be Herndon kids who go to Hughes for AAP.


Herndon was not allowed to apply initially. I don't know if they have opened it to schools outside of the original 5 at this time. We are a Fox Mill family and know Herndon based kids who were in JI, they did not have the option to attend Skyview. THey could Pupil pLace to SLHS for IB but not language this year. It might be that they opened Skyview to other schools after the 1 March deadline, I have not heard that they did that but it is possible.
Anonymous
Post 04/14/2026 12:38     Subject: Skyview Information for Families of Attending Kids
Kids from Stone as well went on the tour.

I'm interested in how they are going to fill the classes at so many levels with at least 32 students per class. There will likely only be one section of the APs they will have which will make scheduling very challenging.
Anonymous
Post 04/14/2026 12:36     Subject: Skyview Information for Families of Attending Kids
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Also interesting in today's visit - kids were told that block days will alternate with 1. interdisciplinary teaching of core subjects with flexible time allocations 2. electives and study halls or whatever.

This is already evidence of a new model in education. I am excited for it.


This is true. They seem to be heavily modeling TJ's course schedule with IBET and other teamed courses. Not sure how this would work with a general population.


I would love it if one of you would explain this to me. Please give an example if you can because I just don't understand.


I have heard that Skyview wants to schedule all of the core classes on a single day. So a student would have English, Math, Science, and Social Studies one day, and then other courses like PE, foreign language, electives, the other day. They also want to try and have students rotate through their core classes in the same pod area so that the core teachers would share the same students (similar to IBET in 9th grade for TJ).


That makes sense because most if not all of the kids will come from Rachel Carson which has pods/teams for7th and 8th grade.


All middle schools have "teams" like that.

What makes you think most or "all" of the kids will be from Carson when they made the offer to kids from all high schools?
My guess is the only thing we know for sure is it won't be kids who are into sports choosing to attend. Everything else, who knows.
Anonymous
Post 04/14/2026 12:34     Subject: Skyview Information for Families of Attending Kids
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Also interesting in today's visit - kids were told that block days will alternate with 1. interdisciplinary teaching of core subjects with flexible time allocations 2. electives and study halls or whatever.

This is already evidence of a new model in education. I am excited for it.


This is true. They seem to be heavily modeling TJ's course schedule with IBET and other teamed courses. Not sure how this would work with a general population.


I would love it if one of you would explain this to me. Please give an example if you can because I just don't understand.


I have heard that Skyview wants to schedule all of the core classes on a single day. So a student would have English, Math, Science, and Social Studies one day, and then other courses like PE, foreign language, electives, the other day. They also want to try and have students rotate through their core classes in the same pod area so that the core teachers would share the same students (similar to IBET in 9th grade for TJ).


That makes sense because most if not all of the kids will come from Rachel Carson which has pods/teams for7th and 8th grade.
Anonymous
Post 04/14/2026 12:24     Subject: Re:Skyview Information for Families of Attending Kids
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My child did not do a great job of explaining the 1 day core subject concept to us. My big question is how will it work for kids who do not have their core classes with a group of kids. For example, DS is hoping to take AP Human Geography, Algebra 2, Honors English, and Honors Biology.

The concept sounds great, I am just curious how it will work.

He also said that there were about 200 kids there from Carson and some from Hughes, but he did not mention other MSs. Do we know what MSs attended yesterday? Hughes was a bit of a surprise to me, I am not sure if those were Floris kids, who I thought were at Carson but I could be wrong.


What are you talking about? Anyone at Hughes zoned for South Lakes had as much right to apply as anyone zoned for Carson.


Could also be Herndon kids who go to Hughes for AAP.
Anonymous
Post 04/14/2026 11:59     Subject: Re:Skyview Information for Families of Attending Kids
I have no problem with kids from Hughes choosing Skyview, just surprised. The limited info I had heard said that the SLHS kids were all Carson, clearly that was wrong.
Anonymous
Post 04/14/2026 10:38     Subject: Re:Skyview Information for Families of Attending Kids
Anonymous wrote:My child did not do a great job of explaining the 1 day core subject concept to us. My big question is how will it work for kids who do not have their core classes with a group of kids. For example, DS is hoping to take AP Human Geography, Algebra 2, Honors English, and Honors Biology.

The concept sounds great, I am just curious how it will work.

He also said that there were about 200 kids there from Carson and some from Hughes, but he did not mention other MSs. Do we know what MSs attended yesterday? Hughes was a bit of a surprise to me, I am not sure if those were Floris kids, who I thought were at Carson but I could be wrong.


What are you talking about? Anyone at Hughes zoned for South Lakes had as much right to apply as anyone zoned for Carson.
Anonymous
Post 04/14/2026 10:13     Subject: Re:Skyview Information for Families of Attending Kids
It is an interesting concept, but I wonder how this would actually work with so many different levels that students could take. It's easier at TJ since 9th graders take the same level of English, Bio, and Tech. Not sure how this is feasible when you have academic and honors classes in a regular high school.
Anonymous
Post 04/14/2026 10:05     Subject: Re:Skyview Information for Families of Attending Kids
My child did not do a great job of explaining the 1 day core subject concept to us. My big question is how will it work for kids who do not have their core classes with a group of kids. For example, DS is hoping to take AP Human Geography, Algebra 2, Honors English, and Honors Biology.

The concept sounds great, I am just curious how it will work.

He also said that there were about 200 kids there from Carson and some from Hughes, but he did not mention other MSs. Do we know what MSs attended yesterday? Hughes was a bit of a surprise to me, I am not sure if those were Floris kids, who I thought were at Carson but I could be wrong.
Anonymous
Post 04/14/2026 09:51     Subject: Skyview Information for Families of Attending Kids
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Also interesting in today's visit - kids were told that block days will alternate with 1. interdisciplinary teaching of core subjects with flexible time allocations 2. electives and study halls or whatever.

This is already evidence of a new model in education. I am excited for it.


This is true. They seem to be heavily modeling TJ's course schedule with IBET and other teamed courses. Not sure how this would work with a general population.


I would love it if one of you would explain this to me. Please give an example if you can because I just don't understand.


I have heard that Skyview wants to schedule all of the core classes on a single day. So a student would have English, Math, Science, and Social Studies one day, and then other courses like PE, foreign language, electives, the other day. They also want to try and have students rotate through their core classes in the same pod area so that the core teachers would share the same students (similar to IBET in 9th grade for TJ).


Probably worth a try. Might have some downsides as the non core can give a little break. I guess I've always preferred non-block scheduling as that is how I went to high school. Advantages and disadvantages to everything, I guess.
Anonymous
Post 04/14/2026 09:46     Subject: Skyview Information for Families of Attending Kids
With such a small population, they can try out some more innovative things.
Anonymous
Post 04/14/2026 09:40     Subject: Skyview Information for Families of Attending Kids
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Also interesting in today's visit - kids were told that block days will alternate with 1. interdisciplinary teaching of core subjects with flexible time allocations 2. electives and study halls or whatever.

This is already evidence of a new model in education. I am excited for it.


This is true. They seem to be heavily modeling TJ's course schedule with IBET and other teamed courses. Not sure how this would work with a general population.


I would love it if one of you would explain this to me. Please give an example if you can because I just don't understand.


I have heard that Skyview wants to schedule all of the core classes on a single day. So a student would have English, Math, Science, and Social Studies one day, and then other courses like PE, foreign language, electives, the other day. They also want to try and have students rotate through their core classes in the same pod area so that the core teachers would share the same students (similar to IBET in 9th grade for TJ).