News: Initial VHSL Redistricting and Reclassification Plan for 2011-12 and 2012-13

(Nov. 18, 2009) - If the VHSL initial redistricting and reclassification plan for 2011-12 and 2012-13 unveiled Tuesday is approved next spring, then Loudoun AA schools will have a tough road to the state playoffs as a 9-team Dulles District will be part of one of the largest AA regions in the state.

The plan calls for Broad Run and Freedom to move up to AAA and take the place of Heritage and Loudoun Valley in the Cedar Run District and for Stone Bridge to remain in the AAA Liberty District.

A 9-team Dulles District would include all Loudoun schools: Briar Woods, Dominion. Heritage, Loudoun County, Loudoun Valley, Park View, Potomac Falls, Tuscarora and Woodgrove, with the latter two slated to open in 2010.

The plan continues the inbalance among AA regions with Region I and Region II both with 26 schools and Region III with 20 and Region IV with just 18 schools. All four regions send equal representation to VHSL state tournaments.

In Region II, Sherando moves up to the AAA Cedar Run -- making that a six-team district with Battlefield, Broad Run, Freedom, Osbourn and Stonewall Jackson -- and Sherando's place in the five-team Northwestern District is replaced by Central-Woodstock which returns again to AA from A. The other schools: James Wood, Millbrook, Handley and Skyline.

The current five-team Evergreen District gains a new school opening in Prince William County to go along with current members Brentsville, Fauquier, Kettle Run, Liberty and Warren County. The 8-team Jefferson District shrinks to six schools with Orange County moving up to AAA and Goochland down to A, leaving Louisa, Charlottesville, Fluvanna, Monticello, Western Albemarle and William Monroe.

In the four-district Region II, where all districts send equal representation to regional tournaments, the Dulles Districts will have almost as many teams (9) as the Evergreen and Northwestern districts combine (11).

To view the plan, click here!