Aug 22
Fairfax County wants to balance population disparities in it’s schools by realigning its boundaries. One of it’s main ideas is getting rid of the Madison High School island, which sits in the middle of the South Lakes district. South Lakes currently has 800 open seats (after renovations) and when compared to other bordering high schools has more lower income students. According to the Reston Connection, many non-Reston residents don’t want the boundaries realigned, as they sight lower test scores, and more violent incidents. The county believes more balanced demographics would correct those issues.
To the right are the current school boundaries, with South Lakes in pink, and the Madison island in light purple.
August 23rd, 2007 at 11:58 am
From reading the Connection story and looking at the map, I wonder if a better solution would be to expand the South Lakes district westward. South Lakes is the underpopulated school; Westfield is the overpopulated school. Why not take students from Westfield to South Lakes?
Perhaps they could still take part of the Madison island, letting those with Vienna addresses stick with Vienna.
Also brings up an interesting point on Wolftrap’s boundaries, which have never made sense to me. I’m in that district, but most of our neighbors within the Vienna limits go elsewhere.