Ashburn Farm Parents United: Loudoun School Board Committee Votes in Favor of Opening Next Ashburn High School North of the Greenway

The Ashburn Farm Parents United group, formed to help keep Ashburn Farm students in the same high school district, released a letter today claiming that a Loudoun County School Board committee has voted 5-1 to acknowledge there is a clear need to place the next Ashburn high school north of the Dulles Greenway. A new middle school would also be placed north of the Greenway if the committee's consensus are followed by the school district. Here is the letter:


Greetings!

We want to update you on some fantastic progress that was made Wednesday evening by the Joint Subcommittee on Capital Facility Needs. After the failed high school boundary process last Spring, this committee was formed by the Joint Board of Supervisors and School Board Committee and was tasked to identify the school needs for Ashburn, Dulles, and Leesburg. They completed their work Tuesday night with the acknowledgement that we do not have enough schools in Ashburn north of the Greenway to serve the students living here now or in the future. This is huge!!

School Board member Robert DuPree offered a motion that passed 5-1 that stated that "there is a clear need to locate the next Ashburn area middle school and the next Ashburn area high school in the general area between the Dulles Greenway and the Potomac River, and between Goose Creek and Broad Run in order to best serve the current and future residents of that area." The yea votes were Stevens Miller, Lori Waters, Kelly Burk, Robert DuPree, and Bob Ohneiser. The one nay vote was Jennifer Bergel.

Supervisors Lori Waters also followed up with a similar motion for an elementary school designated for the same area which also passed.

We would like to thank all our representatives that serve Ashburn Farm --Supervisors Stevens Miller and Lori Waters, and School Board Members Robert DuPree and Bob Ohneiser. All four of these representatives continually fought to fix the problems that we all know exist here in northern Ashburn. Supervisor Miller as Committee Chairman, and our other representatives continually kept the important information and facts on the forefront of the discussion. We would also like to thank Kelly Burk for taking the time to understand the issues we have here in Ashburn.

More work is being done and we will keep you updated. We will continue the efforts to get a new middle school to feed Stone Bridge HS and a new high school to be fed by Belmont Ridge MS.

Thanks for all your support,
Ashburn Farm Parents United