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Fairfax County Public Schools is moving deeper into its comprehensive boundary review, with transportation findings, revised scenarios and a new round of community meetings expected this fall.

No boundary changes have been proposed for the 2025-26 school year.

The Superintendent’s Boundary Review Advisory Committee met Aug. 5 at the Gatehouse Administration Center to assess work completed so far and prepare for the next stages of the process. The committee has about five months to help develop a thoughtful plan.

During the meeting, the project consultant reviewed the timeline and discussed community meetings scheduled to begin in mid-October. A transportation analysis is expected to be presented at the committee’s next meeting in early September.

The consultant also outlined an analysis of FCPS programs and the major themes identified to date. Committee members then met in subgroups to refine their priorities. Each subgroup presented its three leading priorities to the full committee, allowing members to identify themes shared across the groups.

Thousands of Comments Await Review

FCPS has published region-by-region comments gathered through the Pigeonhole platform during spring community meetings.

The school system is also working to upload more than 13,000 comments submitted through the FCPS Boundary Explorer Tool and its primary online communications platform.

Additional feedback submitted through that communications platform will be shared with the committee and consultant through 11:59 p.m. Aug. 20. The deadline is intended to provide enough time to review the comments before the next set of draft scenarios is developed.

Revised Scenarios Coming This Fall

The consultant plans to update the Boundary Explorer Tool with refined scenarios in the fall. Those options will be presented for public feedback during Phase 2, Part 2 community meetings in October and November.

Advisory committee members have been encouraged to attend the meetings held in their communities.

The consultant is expected to develop boundary scenarios in November and December. The committee will then review them and make any final recommendations to the superintendent.

Superintendent Michelle 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.