Parents voiced their concerns last week about how boundary lines will change once Ronald Wilson Reagan Middle School at Silver Lake in Haymarket comes online in 2012.

Speaking at Bull Run Middle School, Prince William County Supervisor of Planning Lionel White discussed the specifics of four maps offered by the county government. Two of the maps would affect the current boundaries for Gainesville, Bull Run, Marsteller and Stonewall Middle Schools while two other maps would only affect the first three and not Stonewall.

All of the boundary plans generally have the Reagan lines running taking in the northern most part of the county and western areas down to slightly south of U.S. 29 on the most western side. The boundary plans all use the railroad tracks west of Route 55 and north of U.S. 29 as a dividing line between the Reagan and Bull Run boundaries.

Reagan would have the lowest minority population among the five schools scheduled for boundary line shifts at about 4.1 percent of the school population to 4.4 percent. It would also have the lowest number of economically disadvantaged students at under 9 percent of the school population.

The new school also would not breach the overcrowding mark until 2020 in three out of the four plans. In Boundary Plan 2a, the school would go over 100 percent capacity in 2013. In all plans, Gainesville will be operating at roughly 168 percent of its capacity by 2020.

The four maps are available online at the Prince William County Facility Services Web site and can be found under the "School Boundaries" tab on the left side of the browser.

Kelly McCord of Lynn Forest Drive found Boundary Plan 2a to be troubling because it literally isolates her road in every direction in an attempt to keep it connected with the Bull Run territory.

The Bull Run boundary line in that scenario juts up Lynn Forest Drive north of Sudley Road while all of the surrounding areas east, north, west and south of that street area part of the Reagan district.

"Going to Bull Run's good, it's close, but not at any cost," she said. "I'd like to see as much of our Gravely [Elementary School] community as possible go to Bull Run."

Of all the maps, the one that singles out Lynn Forest Drive seemed to be the most obvious case of awkward gerrymandering. Boundary Plan 1 has the only other case that is similar with part of Bethlehem Road being surrounded by three other school boundaries while being part of the Marsteller district.

Other questions regarded future residential developments, Reagan operating at 96 percent capacity in its first year, and accessibility for Reagan given that the school site is in a rural location off of Antioch Road.

A woman who said she had two kids raised issues about access to Waverly Farm Drive, noting it takes one of her daughters an hour to bus to Gravely and another an hour to bus to Bull Run.

White replied that the school administration discussed the Waverly Farm entrance issue with residential developer Toll Brothers earlier this month. The company will eventually pay to connect Waverly Farm to U.S. 15 near Gravely but needs to sell more homes in the Dominion Valley area first in order to trigger the proffer that demands it.

"We asked them a week ago," he said, noting that "a week ago, it was" due by the end of the year.

The next community meeting to discuss boundary line proposals is set for 7 p.m. April 4 at Gainesville Middle School.