Survey Results Show an Overwhelming Majority of Voters Support Option 2

Thank you to the hundreds of you who have visited VOICE, signed our petition, and/or taken our survey tailored specifically to the Wakefield Forest community.  Your voices have been heard!  The results of our survey show overwhelming support for Option 2, an option which, if adopted, would unite Wakefield Forest ES as one feeder to Frost MS and Woodson HS.  Specifically, the results show the following:

• 82% of survey respondents agreed that the school board should change the boundaries so that all of the WFES students attend Frost/Woodson together.
• 94% of survey respondents agreed that the school board should eliminate the split feeder at WFES and send all of WFES students to Woodson if given a choice between shifting the AHS portion of the WFES attendance area to the Woodson pyramid, or shifting the entire WFES attendance area to the Lake Braddock Pyramid.
• 84% of survey respondents signed our petition in favor of having the school board make a boundary change to unify the WFES attendance area within the Woodson pyramid ("VOICE for WFES unification.")

These results are of adult voters only, living locally, and do not include children’s signatures.  Also, we only permitted an individual to complete the survey one time; multiple votes were eliminated.

Note that these results are not related in any way to the petition to oppose Option 4 (formerly Option 1a), to which there are currently over 250 signatures.  There are some in the community who are ambivalent to a move to a specific school who still realize that Option 4 is a terrible choice.  These are two entirely separate petitions and have been treated as such.

There are those in the community who try to paint us as a small group of parents with elementary age children from the east side of Wakefield Chapel.  On the contrary, as you can see by the survey results and as shown on the map below, we are part of a group of over 150 parents and families who have children of all ages, including high school, and who live on both sides of Wakefield Chapel Road.   Some of us do not have children.  Some of us have children of elementary school age.  Some of us have children who attend or will attend Poe MS and Annandale HS; some of us have children who attend or will attend Frost MS and Woodson HS.  We are not a small group, nor are we a minority.  We are instead a large, vibrant majority of the local community who supports Option 2 as providing the best long-term solution to the overcrowding at Annandale HS.

 

If you wish to join our campaign, sign our petition, or send us an e-mail at wakefieldvoice@gmail.com