Across all group sizes, are there any new or newly merged high schools on the horizon in the next few years?
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I went to their web site and checked it out. Another Prince William School, I see.
It looks like they make their debut as 6a. Wow!
It looks like they make their debut as 6a. Wow!
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I'm blow away that Colgan is going to open with that many students. The other high schools have got to have been critically over crowded.
It's tough for any locality to decide to spend $50 million to build a school, but if the growth dictates it, it just has to happen. I guess Fredrick County is just delaying the inevitable.
It's tough for any locality to decide to spend $50 million to build a school, but if the growth dictates it, it just has to happen. I guess Fredrick County is just delaying the inevitable.
How about TC Williams with 3500 students? I know it's an old school, but geez they have 650 more kids than the next one- that's a whole 2A school bigger.
Yeah, I noticed that. I can't imagine the logistic of managing a school that size. Just think about the size of the cafeteria space? And how about the size of the area needed to load and unload buses? Or just the size of the student and faculty parking lots? Unreal!!!
Ninth-graders at TC Williams are housed in a separate building down the street. The main campus probably has a smaller footprint than Fairfax schools.
TC's enrollment has gone from 2900 to 3500 in the last four years, and there were over 1400 first-graders in Alexandria this year. That won't translate to 1400 freshmen in eight years, but I imagine TC will hit 4000 students eventually. Enrollment in Arlington schools (Washington-Lee, Wakefield, Yorktown) is way up as well. These places are unlikely to build new high schools though.
Loudoun already has at least two more high schools in the pipeline for a couple years from now.
TC's enrollment has gone from 2900 to 3500 in the last four years, and there were over 1400 first-graders in Alexandria this year. That won't translate to 1400 freshmen in eight years, but I imagine TC will hit 4000 students eventually. Enrollment in Arlington schools (Washington-Lee, Wakefield, Yorktown) is way up as well. These places are unlikely to build new high schools though.
Loudoun already has at least two more high schools in the pipeline for a couple years from now.
Colgan Sharks... School is huge! I pass it daily and that place looks nice. I'll put a link up I found on YouTube showing aerial photos etc
There is another high school already planned for Prince William county in the western end of the county to relieve crowding at Battlefield and Patriot. Should be completed in about 5 years max. They are ironing out a location issue before building.
Do they hold graduation over a weekend (A-I) on Fri, (J-R) on Sat, (S-Z) on Sunday? Bleeding Navy & I would still be waiting for our daughter's graduations to be over if Dinwiddie & Salem were that size.
If your last names had been Zelenski, they would be two years deep in college before their name's got called.
To each his own. I'm just thankful that fate put me in this humble corner of the world.
To each his own. I'm just thankful that fate put me in this humble corner of the world.