Approach 1Contiguous / domino
Fails 3 of 3- 2Mixed housing collapses from 12.9% to 5.0%.
- 9Moves 210 students to fix a 74-student overage.
- 10Walkers become riders; no transport analysis.
Shawnee Mission · East Feeder · Boundary work paused
They are planning to move 130 more kids than necessary.
We drew two better maps. One moves 74. The other moves 212 — but mixed housing goes up instead of down.
74the actual overage
204children their plan moves
RSP has failed elementary redistricting — let’s show SMSD the report card.
Drag the line.
Everything above it leaves Corinth.
83rd St — the plan
enough — 16%
enough to solve itover-correction
Moved~204
Of capacity78%
2.8× over-correction. Heading for the 70% under-use band.
16% is enough. The plan cuts 32%.
The strip they’re cutting is the only part that’s different.
Almost all of Corinth is $600–800k homes. The exception sits along the northern edge — inside the cut.
Homes under $600k12.9%
Northern strip alone71%
The northernmost 15% is 71% mid-priced homes. The whole area is 13%.
Every neighbour spans three price ranges.
Corinth would span one.
<$200k$200–400k$400–600k$600–800k>$800k
One school is full. The feeder is three-quarters empty.
1,100 spare seats across eight schools, 2030/31.
Corinth112%
Briarwood93%
Prairie85%
Belinder80%
Trailwood70%
Tomahawk66%
Westwood View55%
Highlands40%
filledemptyover
Three sit below the district’s own 70% line. Only Corinth is over. Their plan moves 204 children out of the one school that is full — roughly what it would take to lift Highlands over that line.
522 of 598 don’t ride a bus.
83rd Street was just rebuilt for them — sidewalks, calming, a new crossing. The plan reassigns many of the students it was built for.
Criterion 10. No transport analysis published.
Scored on their rubric.
The district’s own criteria.
Approach 2Slide 34
Fails 2 of 3- 2Mixed housing holds at 10.0%, better than Approach 1.
- 9Moves 443 students to fix a 74-student overage.
- 10Walkers become riders; no transport analysis.
The choice
Their two. Ours.
Pick a plan on each side and drag the divider across the map.
Left
Right
Numbers on the next screen ↓
What each one costs.
Approach 1 against Somerset.
Approach 1Theirs — north to 83rd
- Moved
- 210
- Corinth
- 78%
- Mixed
- 5.0%
Two cuts, 210 children, a 74-student overage. Over-corrects 2.8×, takes the walk zone, and cuts mixed housing to 5%.
SomersetOurs — Somerset + south trim
- Moved
- 74
- Corinth
- 100%
- Mixed
- 6.5%
The line everyone already knows. 74 children, Corinth at 100%, mixed housing up. Smallest cut that works.
Two ways to do this better. Theirs is neither.
Somerset moves 74 children instead of 204. 89th & Lee moves 212 — and mixed housing rises to 19.3% instead of collapsing to 5%.
Stay informed if the process restarts →The details, including what ours doesn’t fix
89th & Lee is the cleanest proof. It moves 212 children — four more than their plan — and Corinth lands at 77%. The only difference is direction. Theirs takes mixed housing from 12.9% to 5.0%. This takes it to 19.3%. Identical disruption, opposite result, which is how you know the loss of diversity is a choice and not a constraint.
Durability is the real question. A deeper cut buys more years. If Corinth keeps growing at the rate RSP forecasts, their plan holds to about 2039 and Somerset is back over capacity by 2031 — on that future they are right. If Corinth follows the district’s own projected elementary decline, Somerset holds past 2040 and their plan drifts toward the 70% floor. RSP stopped publishing building-level numbers at 2030/31, so nobody outside the district can tell which it is.
Highlands stays at 40%. Ours doesn’t solve that, and we’re not pretending otherwise. A school 58 students below the district’s own floor deserves its own public process — not a quiet rescue paid for by Corinth.
Somerset alone does not solve it. We traced the actual curve of Somerset Drive off the district’s own map rather than drawing a straight line. Everything north of it is only ~56 children, which leaves Corinth at 103% — still 18 over. Pair it with a small southern trim and it works (74 moved, 100%), but mixed housing still lands at 6.5%, because any northern cut takes the strip that holds it.
Where the students go. Corinth’s southern edge borders both Trailwood and Briarwood. Trailwood has 151 spare seats and already runs a split feeder between SM East and SM South; Briarwood is at 93% and can absorb about 40. That is roughly 191 seats against 89th & Lee’s 212 — the reason we present it as proof rather than as the plan.
How the maps were made. Attendance-area shapes and the Somerset Drive centreline are digitized from RSP’s own boundary map. The southern trim is still modelled as a band rather than street-by-street — a real proposal would follow streets. Student counts come from RSP’s published density surface, calibrated to RSP’s own totals.
Criterion 3 — Duration of boundaries
How long should the boundary last?
Their Criterion 3 asks that boundaries “last as long as possible using forecasted data.” The forecasted data stops at 2030/31. So this is 2031/32 — the last year anyone has projected. Tap a future.
District enrollment falls 2.8%.
Their plan in 2031/3278%22 points of empty seats
Somerset in 2031/3298%fits, with room
On this future, a cut a third the size carries Corinth comfortably to the five-year review.
Criterion 3 is the only argument for cutting deeper than the overage requires — and the district ranked it below Feeder System, Building Utilization and Fiscal Considerations. Fairfax Policy 8130 requires a full boundary review every five years. SMSD’s own practice matches that cycle.
GET INVOLVED NOW!
The boundary work group is paused. Stay informed in case the process restarts.
The previously listed meetings and vote are no longer active. You can still email the district — smsdboundaries@smsd.org
Draw it yourself.
Tap the parts of Corinth you’d move. Every piece follows a real street.
Children moved0
Corinth112%
Mixed housing12.9%
Capacity74 over capacity
vs their plan206 fewer children
Mixed housing12.9% — up 7.9 pointsTheir plan: 5.0%
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Every figure traces to these. We’d rather be corrected than believed.
RSP Enrollment AnalysisMar 2026 · 101 slidesBoundary Analysis Update22 Jun 2026 · BOEBoundary process & timelinesmsd.orgWalk & bike commitmentssmsd.orgFairfax Co. Policy 8130Jul 2024 · review every 5 yearsCommon practices in rezoningEducational Data Systems · 2018
Take the data.
Everything on this site, as files. Redo our maths.
Housing mix by attendance areaCSVAll 34 schools — capacity & projectionsCSVEvery plan scored side by sideCSVCorinth tiles — children & housing massCSVCorinth tiles — geometryJSONPlan scorecardJSONMethod & limitationsWhat’s estimated
Housing figures are mass-weighted: each area’s housing value bands are summed, never averaged, so combining pieces gives the exact share rather than an approximation. Student counts are apportioned from RSP’s published density map and calibrated to RSP’s own totals. Enrollment figures are transcribed and match the June deck exactly.