Can you send your child to Langley even if you’re not zoned for it?

[Anonymous]

Since it’s underenrolled I mean.

[Anonymous]

Try to do so and let us know how it went.

https://www.fcps.edu/registration/student-transfer-information

[Anonymous]

you can try? but you can't just roll up and say you want to go there.

[Anonymous]

You need to have a reason, apply, and then provide transportation.

[Anonymous]

If your child wants to take Russian, it can work. Like a PP said, you have to provide your own transportation. Plus, you have to get the Langley Principal and the home base Principal to agree, annually.

[Anonymous]

For a while they were showing Langley as closed to transfers even though it remains under-enrolled.

Then they pulled the maps that had shown which schools were open and closed to transfers and said this would be re-evaluated in February and then May for the next school year.

So basically it's less transparency and you won't know until you try to secure a pupil placement. They want the process to be driven by what a student can't get at their base school, not by a desire to attend a particular school other than their base school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For a while they were showing Langley as closed to transfers even though it remains under-enrolled.

Then they pulled the maps that had shown which schools were open and closed to transfers and said this would be re-evaluated in February and then May for the next school year.

So basically it's less transparency and you won't know until you try to secure a pupil placement. They want the process to be driven by what a student can't get at their base school, not by a desire to attend a particular school other than their base school.

Yes, this is spot on. Langley might be worried about being so under-enrolled compared to the massive over-enrollment at MHS, that they may be inclined to accept whatever requests for transfer they can get. Because, you know, eventually somebody may actually do something about that glaring disparity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Since it’s underenrolled I mean.

FCPS policies won’t accept “my school is overcrowded, this school has space and I can get there without a bus” as a reason to pupil place to any school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If your child wants to take Russian, it can work. Like a PP said, you have to provide your own transportation. Plus, you have to get the Langley Principal and the home base Principal to agree, annually.

If they drop Russian later, though, they'll be sent back to their home school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For a while they were showing Langley as closed to transfers even though it remains under-enrolled.

Then they pulled the maps that had shown which schools were open and closed to transfers and said this would be re-evaluated in February and then May for the next school year.

So basically it's less transparency and you won't know until you try to secure a pupil placement. They want the process to be driven by what a student can't get at their base school, not by a desire to attend a particular school other than their base school.

Yes, this is spot on. Langley might be worried about being so under-enrolled compared to the massive over-enrollment at MHS, that they may be inclined to accept whatever requests for transfer they can get. Because, you know, eventually somebody may actually do something about that glaring disparity.

Except that they're not "so" under-enrolled at this point. They are only slightly under-enrolled after the boundary adjustment, and there is a new neighborhood with 100+ houses being built that will feed to Langley. Don't you worry.

[Anonymous]

Langley is a mess! Look at the staff satisfaction surveys.

If I were to pick a non-TJ school for my child, I would go to one of the academies (West Potomac, Chantilly, Madison I think?)

Langley does not have a lot of fabulous STEM offerings. The academies have a lot more.

[Anonymous]

OP is probably the same poster obsessed with Langley's enrollment. Pretty transparent post.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Langley is a mess! Look at the staff satisfaction surveys.

If I were to pick a non-TJ school for my child, I would go to one of the academies (West Potomac, Chantilly, Madison I think?)

Langley does not have a lot of fabulous STEM offerings. The academies have a lot more.

"A mess"? Really, do tell! Do you have kids there, or is this just the usual chip-on-the-shoulder post that has become incredibly boring? I have three kids there and one graduate. Not a mess. Excellent school. Oh - and tons of "fabulous STEM offerings," which you would know if you actually had kids there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For a while they were showing Langley as closed to transfers even though it remains under-enrolled.

Then they pulled the maps that had shown which schools were open and closed to transfers and said this would be re-evaluated in February and then May for the next school year.

So basically it's less transparency and you won't know until you try to secure a pupil placement. They want the process to be driven by what a student can't get at their base school, not by a desire to attend a particular school other than their base school.

Yes, this is spot on. Langley might be worried about being so under-enrolled compared to the massive over-enrollment at MHS, that they may be inclined to accept whatever requests for transfer they can get. Because, you know, eventually somebody may actually do something about that glaring disparity.

Except that they're not "so" under-enrolled at this point. They are only slightly under-enrolled after the boundary adjustment, and there is a new neighborhood with 100+ houses being built that will feed to Langley. Don't you worry.

It’s about 15% under capacity. That’s close to what FCPS treats as significantly under capacity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For a while they were showing Langley as closed to transfers even though it remains under-enrolled.

Then they pulled the maps that had shown which schools were open and closed to transfers and said this would be re-evaluated in February and then May for the next school year.

So basically it's less transparency and you won't know until you try to secure a pupil placement. They want the process to be driven by what a student can't get at their base school, not by a desire to attend a particular school other than their base school.

Yes, this is spot on. Langley might be worried about being so under-enrolled compared to the massive over-enrollment at MHS, that they may be inclined to accept whatever requests for transfer they can get. Because, you know, eventually somebody may actually do something about that glaring disparity.

Except that they're not "so" under-enrolled at this point. They are only slightly under-enrolled after the boundary adjustment, and there is a new neighborhood with 100+ houses being built that will feed to Langley. Don't you worry.

It’s about 15% under capacity. That’s close to what FCPS treats as significantly under capacity.

But it won't be for long.