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

[Anonymous]

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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.

The latest enrollment numbers at Cooper don’t seem to suggest Langley will be close to full capacity any time soon, so why turn away someone who can arrange for their kid’s transportation there?

[Anonymous]

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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.

What is the neighborhood with 100+ houses??

[Anonymous]

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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.

Actually they will. They just won’t advertise it.

[Anonymous]

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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.

What is the neighborhood with 100+ houses??

it will take 10- 15+ years for that development to send many students to Langley. I have seen it with other medium sized developments in McLean. .

[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.

DP and don’t care about Langley, but how does one do this?

[Anonymous]

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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.

DP and don’t care about Langley, but how does one do this?

Also DP. You'd have to be an FCPS insider or submit a FOIA request. I don't think FCPS has publicly released the results of staff satisfaction surveys (by school) since 2014.

[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.

What is the neighborhood with 100+ houses??

There’s a new one started on Georgetown Pike, near GF Village. There’s also a new one on Towlston, near Rt. 7. That one might be zoned for McLean, I don’t know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

What is the neighborhood with 100+ houses??

There’s a new one started on Georgetown Pike, near GF Village. There’s also a new one on Towlston, near Rt. 7. That one might be zoned for McLean, I don’t know.

Both of these feed to Langley. The one near Towlston is a Toll Brothers development called Arden on the former Hazelton/Covance Labs site.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

The latest enrollment numbers at Cooper don’t seem to suggest Langley will be close to full capacity any time soon, so why turn away someone who can arrange for their kid’s transportation there?

I'm the PP who said the enrollment won't be under capacity for long - I said nothing about "turning away" a transfer student. Just pointing out a fact.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

What is the neighborhood with 100+ houses??

it will take 10- 15+ years for that development to send many students to Langley. I have seen it with other medium sized developments in McLean. .

Oh, please. You somehow know the demographic makeup of this future neighborhood?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

What is the neighborhood with 100+ houses??

There’s a new one started on Georgetown Pike, near GF Village. There’s also a new one on Towlston, near Rt. 7. That one might be zoned for McLean, I don’t know.

No, both of those neighborhoods are zoned for Langley.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

What is the neighborhood with 100+ houses??

it will take 10- 15+ years for that development to send many students to Langley. I have seen it with other medium sized developments in McLean. .

Oh, please. You somehow know the demographic makeup of this future neighborhood?

Not the poster to whom you’re responding but why are you such an asshole? FCPS has a reasonably good handle on student yields from new single family home developments and they don’t expect Langley to be at full capacity any time soon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

What is the neighborhood with 100+ houses??

it will take 10- 15+ years for that development to send many students to Langley. I have seen it with other medium sized developments in McLean. .

Oh, please. You somehow know the demographic makeup of this future neighborhood?

Not the poster to whom you’re responding but why are you such an asshole? FCPS has a reasonably good handle on student yields from new single family home developments and they don’t expect Langley to be at full capacity any time soon.

Link to that claim please? Because unless you are actually an FCPS employee tasked with projecting student yields, I find it very hard to believe you know this for a fact.

[Anonymous]

Can you please share how to check if school is open for transfer/current capacity of the school ? Thanks

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: Can you please share how to check if school is open for transfer/current capacity of the school ? Thanks

If you'd bothered to read the thread, you'd know that's no longer an option. You apply for a transfer and state your reason. Then they tell you what your placement option is.