FCPS: SLHS Headed Toward Severe Overcrowding
Capital Improvement Plan features expansion of high school and possible new high school in western part of Fairfax County.
In the last five years, South Lakes High School has gone from one of Fairfax County Public School's smallest high schools to bursting at its renovated seams. The growth, which puts South Lakes at 109-percent capacity utilization for 2012-13, is projected to put capacity at 140 percent by 2017-18, according to the FCPS Capital Improvement Plan, released last week. The latter number would make South Lakes the most overcrowded school in the county. Capacity utilization refers to the percentage of capacity that is being utilized by a building based on the building’s program capacity and the number of enrolled students. A school is considered overcrowded when the enrollment of the school is higher than its capacity. The issue has vaulted SLHS …
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jomarsh124
9:01 pm on Sunday, January 6, 2013
Rational arguments that South Lakes would be over-crowded (using Staff's own numbers) if the Tisdadt/Stu Gibson/South Lakes PTSA redistricting went forward as planned didn't could overcome the pro-redistricters worldview that anyone opposed to the redistricting was just a racist. Turns out we who opposed the redistricting could count; but, I don't expect to get any apologies. more ›