Overcrowding prompts rally for a new school

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Southern Fairfax County residents fed up with sending their kids to one of the county’s most overcrowded schools plan to rally this month in the hopes of prompting the construction of a new facility.

South County Secondary School was never meant to handle the nearly 3,000 students that walk its hall each day, officials acknowledge. And efforts to alleviate the problem in the two years since the school opened – including a boundary change and trailers – haven’t worked.

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