The Potomac Falls High School boundary begins east of Sully Road and north of Church Road, following Cascades Boulevard and Potomac View Road to about halfway up to the Potomac River, where it incorporates several neighborhoods east of Potomac View Road that are not in the Sugarland Run. Students who live south of Route 7 and east of Potomac View and Cascades Roads will attend Park View High School. The boundary line for the new high school, now known as HS-1, encompasses all students east of the Potomac Falls boundary line but north of Route 7. Proponents of the adopted plan many of whom lived in the Potomac Lakes section of Cascades argued that the staff-recommended plan would break up communities of interest and lump students likely to be disadvantaged into the same schools. Supporters of the staff plan largely said it provided the best attendance distribution among the three high schools in question and that parents were using the diversity argument as a tactic to redistrict their students into Potomac Falls.
Socioeconomic factors do play a part.
Sometimes we have a community like Park View that develops the it way does. We try not to create an imbalance. No one in this area is going to suffer for a lack of services. In the end, Cassell joined her colleagues in voting for Plan 132 Modified. I hope it sends a good message that this board voted together.