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Fairfax County Public Schools’ comprehensive boundary review is advancing after a spring engagement process generated thousands of comments and more than 100,000 votes on community feedback.
No boundary changes have been proposed for the 2025-26 school year. The three draft scenarios presented this spring will be refined before another round of public meetings in the fall.
Eight hybrid meetings held across the division from May 15 through June 6 attracted more than 1,500 staff members, families and community participants. A consultant collected more than 3,400 comments through the Pigeonhole platform, and those submissions received over 100,000 votes.
The Boundary Explorer Tool received more than 5,800 comments between May 15 and June 10, with more feedback still to be added. FCPS has released summaries of community comments, survey trends and heatmaps showing where comments and survey submissions originated.
Additional records are also expected to be published. They include the complete Pigeonhole comments organized by region and filterable by school or topic, as well as Boundary Explorer submissions labeled by region, school level and timestamp. Feedback from the division’s primary online tool will be categorized by region and subject.
During a June 23 meeting, the Superintendent’s Boundary Review Advisory Committee examined summaries of feedback gathered at the eight community meetings and through the online platforms. Members then divided into regional and divisionwide subgroups to identify priorities for the consultant’s continued work.
The committee also received summaries of earlier small-group discussions about attendance islands on April 11, split feeders on April 25 and overcrowding on May 5. Members shared concerns raised within their communities and asked questions about the review process and upcoming work.
Each subgroup selected a team leader and was directed to refine and finalize its priorities by July 7. The full committee is scheduled to meet again on August 5 and will continue receiving information during the summer. Key points from its two remaining summer meetings are expected to be released on the following business day.
Over the next several months, the consultant will use community feedback and committee input to update the draft boundary scenarios. Refined versions will be added to the Boundary Explorer Tool and presented during another series of community meetings in the fall.
The consultant is expected to develop additional boundary scenarios in November and December. The committee will then review them and make final recommendations.
The superintendent plans to consider those recommendations before presenting proposals and an implementation plan to the local school board in January 2026.
Residents may continue submitting comments and survey responses through the Boundary Explorer Tool or sending questions through the division’s online feedback system. That input will be shared with the committee and released to the community at regular intervals throughout the summer.