What is the best public high school in Fairfax County?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:And you would be wrong. I serve on commissions locally and was at that glorious graduation service at DAR hall June 13th. Population stats are constantly on the increase because of people clamoring to get into the school. Why do you think there are trailers in the back? Why do you think we have to rigidly impose residency requirements. http://www.city-data.com/school/langley-high-school-va.html

Langley's enrollment was under 2000 last year: http://www.fcps.edu/it/studentreporting/documents/EthnicRpt12.pdf

For most of the last decade, the enrollment was between 1900 and 2100 students. It was nowhere close to 2400 students. Currently, FCPS is projecting that the enrollment at Langley, Cooper and several elementary schools that feed into Langley will decline. Conversely, the enrollment at Marshall and McLean and their feeders, which are closer to Tysons and Metro stations, has been increasing. FCPS has suggested that it may move kids from the McLean and Marshall pyramids to Langley to even out the enrollment, but nothing specific has been proposed yet.

I hope other Langley parents are better informed and less arrogant than you are.

Why is this insult even relevant to OP's question?

If a Langley parent claims it's the best school in the county, and then demonstrates she has no idea how many kids have actually attended the school at any point over the past decade, I'm less inclined to take her other comments about Langley or FCPS seriously.

No one on this thread has claimed Langley is the best in the county.

8/26, 18:36.

I know, more nitpicking. It's just hard to take people seriously when they constantly have their facts wrong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And you would be wrong. I serve on commissions locally and was at that glorious graduation service at DAR hall June 13th. Population stats are constantly on the increase because of people clamoring to get into the school. Why do you think there are trailers in the back? Why do you think we have to rigidly impose residency requirements. http://www.city-data.com/school/langley-high-school-va.html

Langley's enrollment was under 2000 last year: http://www.fcps.edu/it/studentreporting/documents/EthnicRpt12.pdf

For most of the last decade, the enrollment was between 1900 and 2100 students. It was nowhere close to 2400 students. Currently, FCPS is projecting that the enrollment at Langley, Cooper and several elementary schools that feed into Langley will decline. Conversely, the enrollment at Marshall and McLean and their feeders, which are closer to Tysons and Metro stations, has been increasing. FCPS has suggested that it may move kids from the McLean and Marshall pyramids to Langley to even out the enrollment, but nothing specific has been proposed yet.

I hope other Langley parents are better informed and less arrogant than you are.

No, we're just a helluva lot nicer and don't nitpick posters to pieces over stats. that don't make a bit of difference.

Don't you have a commission meeting to attend?

[Anonymous]

So, I guess Langley IS the only high school worth talking about in Fairfax County...

[Anonymous]

It just the best unless you can get into TJ

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:And you would be wrong. I serve on commissions locally and was at that glorious graduation service at DAR hall June 13th. Population stats are constantly on the increase because of people clamoring to get into the school. Why do you think there are trailers in the back? Why do you think we have to rigidly impose residency requirements. http://www.city-data.com/school/langley-high-school-va.html

Langley's enrollment was under 2000 last year: http://www.fcps.edu/it/studentreporting/documents/EthnicRpt12.pdf

For most of the last decade, the enrollment was between 1900 and 2100 students. It was nowhere close to 2400 students. Currently, FCPS is projecting that the enrollment at Langley, Cooper and several elementary schools that feed into Langley will decline. Conversely, the enrollment at Marshall and McLean and their feeders, which are closer to Tysons and Metro stations, has been increasing. FCPS has suggested that it may move kids from the McLean and Marshall pyramids to Langley to even out the enrollment, but nothing specific has been proposed yet.

I hope other Langley parents are better informed and less arrogant than you are.

Why is this insult even relevant to OP's question?

If a Langley parent claims it's the best school in the county, and then demonstrates she has no idea how many kids have actually attended the school at any point over the past decade, I'm less inclined to take her other comments about Langley or FCPS seriously.

No one on this thread has claimed Langley is the best in the county.

8/26, 18:36.

I know, more nitpicking. It's just hard to take people seriously when they constantly have their facts wrong.

Clearly that poster meant after T.J. Before and after said T.J. Nitpick nitpick nitpick.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's not the Langley parents its all the Langley haters!

So true. And so nasty! We had a great four years there. I know Langley has its detractors but considering what they (and I include the principal, the admin, and the teachers) are trying to accomplish serving an enormous variety of needs from the extremely gifted to the physically handicapped and SN kids, I think they do a remarkable job of educating 2400 kids. My hats off to them!

There are fewer than 2000 kids there now. I have no idea when there were 2400 kids but it makes me think this poster has no recent experience with the school.

Please go read the threads started today by concerned FCPS parents with young kids in classes of 30, 33, and 35. I simply can't understand why you have to argue about a rough head count when someone is trying to say something nice and encouraging about FCPS. The County is exploding with new housing starts and build-up in Tysons. The School Board is wrestling with an enormous population increase, overcrowding, no increase in tax dollars, a new Supervisor and a broken College system saying "we want to see rigor! AP courses! Honors!". That all takes money.

[Anonymous]

Yes! All you parents who for some reason want to fight over the size of Langley's student body, why don't you tell these parents not to worry; Langley will still be a tiny little school of under 2000 when their kids get there:

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/327989.page

[Anonymous]

Meh. I've lived here for a long time now. Aside from TJ, the one school I consistently hear about is Woodson. Langley is mostly a standout b/c of the "upper class" demo that feeds into it.

I'm not putting it down. It's a good school. Very good. But, I've never heard a single person refer to it as the best HS in Fairfax County.


BTW, my child is currently zoned for neither of these schools.

[Anonymous]

thank you. Finally, some input for OP that may be of use.

[Anonymous]

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Please go read the threads started today by concerned FCPS parents with young kids in classes of 30, 33, and 35. I simply can't understand why you have to argue about a rough head count when someone is trying to say something nice and encouraging about FCPS. The County is exploding with new housing starts and build-up in Tysons. The School Board is wrestling with an enormous population increase, overcrowding, no increase in tax dollars, a new Supervisor and a broken College system saying "we want to see rigor! AP courses! Honors!". That all takes money.

Um, OK. Any more non-sequiturs you'd like to share?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes! All you parents who for some reason want to fight over the size of Langley's student body, why don't you tell these parents not to worry; Langley will still be a tiny little school of under 2000 when their kids get there:

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/327989.page

The class sizes will stay large in the Langley pyramid. If the enrollment shrinks, FCPS will just move students there from other schools or cut the number of teachers assigned to the school.

[Anonymous]

why do you think enrollment will shrink? The new Supervisor is preparing for an enormous increase in population due to the explosion of Tysons, the dulles Hi Tech corridor, and the jobs that GMU is spinning off. I've never heard of anyone saying enrollment will shrink . . .

[Anonymous]

Here's the 2013 projections for the three year cap. campaign to house the new students: http://www.fcps.edu/fts/planning/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:why do you think enrollment will shrink? The new Supervisor is preparing for an enormous increase in population due to the explosion of Tysons, the dulles Hi Tech corridor, and the jobs that GMU is spinning off. I've never heard of anyone saying enrollment will shrink . . .

The projections for reduced enrollment in the Langley pyramid are in the latest Capital Improvement Plan.

http://www.fcps.edu/fts/planning/cip/cipbook2014-18.pdf

Spring Hill, near Tysons, is expected to gain students by 2017. Every other school in the pyramid is expected to lose students. Langley is projected to be under 1,800 students by 2017. The projections may be wrong; FCPS projections often are. But what the FCPS planners are seeing is that fewer people with school-age children want to live, or can afford to live, in western McLean and Great Falls. If the projections are right, FCPS will have to decide whether to operate those schools as smaller schools or redistrict.

This doesn't reflect adversely on the quality of the education at those schools, and some people would like their kids to attend schools with fewer students (which is different from schools with smaller classrooms). But it's not the case that people have been so eager to send their kids to Langley in recent years that they've filled it with anywhere close to 2400 students.

[Anonymous]

Just use Dashboard to compare the out-year projections.

http://www.fcps.edu/fts/dashboard/12-13dashboard.html

Use the HS Capacity and Enrollment option and select Langley. The projections are based on the values included in the CIP.