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Fairfax County Public Schools is moving into the next stage of its comprehensive boundary review after thousands of residents weighed in on three draft scenarios. No boundary changes have been proposed for the 2025-26 school year.
More than 1,500 staff members, families and community members participated in eight hybrid meetings held across the division during the spring. The meetings focused on the draft scenarios before their review by the Superintendent’s Boundary Review Advisory Committee.
The Pigeonhole commenting platform collected more than 3,400 comments, which received over 100,000 votes. From May 15 through June 10, the FCPS Boundary Explorer Tool received more than 5,800 comments, with additional submissions still to be added.
FCPS plans to publish the complete Pigeonhole comments by region, with options to filter them by school or topic. It will also release Boundary Explorer comments from May 15 through June 10, including each submission’s region, school level and timestamp. Feedback submitted through the division’s primary online tool will be categorized by region and topic.
The committee has also received summaries of small-group discussions about attendance islands on April 11, split feeder patterns on April 25 and overcrowding on May 5.
Committee identifies priorities
At its June 23 meeting, the advisory committee reviewed feedback from the eight community meetings held between May 15 and June 6, along with responses collected through Pigeonhole and the Boundary Explorer Tool.
Members then divided into regional and divisionwide subgroups to identify the leading issues they want a consultant to examine further. Afterward, each subgroup presented its main points to the full committee.
Committee members also discussed concerns they have heard in their communities and asked Superintendent Michelle Reid and the consultant questions about the review process and upcoming work.
Each subgroup selected a team leader and will refine and finalize its priorities by July 7. The full committee is scheduled to meet again on August 5 and will continue receiving information throughout the summer.
Revised scenarios expected this fall
The advisory committee will hold two more summer meetings, with key takeaways scheduled to be released on the following business day.
Over the next several months, the consultant will use the first round of Phase 2 findings and committee feedback to revise the draft boundary scenarios. The updated scenarios are expected to appear in the Boundary Explorer Tool this fall, when FCPS will hold another round of community meetings and collect additional feedback during Phase 2, Part 2.
The consultant is scheduled to develop boundary scenarios in November and December. The committee will then review them and make any final recommendations.
Reid plans to consider those recommendations before presenting her own recommendations and a proposed implementation plan to the Fairfax County School Board in January 2026.
Residents may continue submitting survey responses and comments through the Boundary Explorer Tool, as well as questions through FCPS’ primary online feedback system. The feedback will be shared with the committee and released to the community at regular intervals during the summer.