More meetings scheduled on school boundary study
Fairfax County Public Schools scheduled eight community meetings this spring on the district-wide school boundary study.
There will be a meeting at Annandale High School on May 28, 7-8:30 p.m., and another one at Glasgow Middle School on June 6, 6:30-8 p.m.
Phase 1 has been completed, and the study is moving into Phase 2, reports Superintendent Michelle Reid in an email to the community.
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During Phase 1, FCPS held 12 community meetings. “Your thoughtful feedback from these meetings offered key insights into the community’s perspectives and needs,” Reid said. “Our partner, Thru Consulting, collected and analyzed that feedback, as well as the input received via email and on our online platform.”
Since those community meetings ended, “The Superintendent’s Boundary Review Advisory Committee has met multiple times to review the feedback, data, and early draft boundary scenarios for upcoming community meetings. The committee has been providing feedback throughout this process and will continue to do so,” Reid said.
The upcoming meetings will allow community members to review and reflect on the initial draft maps and scenarios before the start of summer break.
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During Phase 2, families, staff, and other community members will be able to explore and visualize how the potential scenarios would affect boundaries by using a customized “boundary explorer tool.” The tool will be accessible from the FCPS website.
Each meeting will be held in person and will also be accessible on Zoom. Translation services will be provided. Childcare will be available at the in-person meetings. Registration links will be shared soon.
According to an updated timeline, data analysis and revisions to the scenarios will be done between July and October. Additional community meetings will be held in September-November, and the final scenarios will be developed in November and December.
The school board will have public meetings and will adopt new boundaries in winter 2026.
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So in 2011 when Annandale HS had @ 2500 students the boundaries were changed to pull kids out of Wakefield Forest (to Woodson) and Bren Mar Park (to Edison). And now, 14 years later, FCPS consultants are proposing to undo this and move Bren Mar Park back to Annandale, whereupon Annandale would once again have roughly 2500 students. It’s not like Annandale has a modern, state-of-the-art facility like Oakton or Herndon to accommodate all these kids.
What does Ricardy Anderson – who has been fighting for years to reduce the enrollment at Glasgow MS – feel about this proposal to increase Annandale’s enrollment? How about we meet the needs of kids in their current schools rather than pay a consultant $500,000 just to rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic?
Wakefield Forest residents used “overcrowding” to get them out of school with too many minorities and immigrants. Yet if these neighborhoods were slated to Woodson and had overcrowding, they would have never made a big fuss. These residents found the white way my bad right way to Woodson. The boundary changes are a waste of taxpayers money. None of the neighborhoods will be equally distrubuted. There are many neighborhoods in the Dranesville area. Many of these neighborhoods are slotted to Langley despite being much closer to Herndon. We see it in Annandale. The majority of Annandale residents children do not attend the Annandale High School pyramid. These boundary changes will only cause Title 1 schools to change boundaries with other Title 1 schools. What cracks me up, drive through these neighborhoods like Wakefield Forest during election time, it is a blue haven. The majority of political signs are for the dems. Yet when it comes time to embrace diversity, they find ways to slither out of these schools.
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