Cooper MS and Langley HS or Longfellow mS and McLean HS

[Anonymous]

My impression is that both Langley and McLean are very strong schools, but that McLean has a stronger sense of "school spirit" than Langley.

Three examples:

1. McLean girls played Langley girls for the district basketball championship this February. Several hundred McLean students came to the game, which was held at a neutral site (neither McLean nor Langley), to support their team. Only a few dozen Langley kids were at the game, which McLean won.

2. On the Instagram pages for post-graduation plans, about 1/3 of McLean's senior class has posted their plans so far. At Langley, it's less than 1/5th of the senior class.

3. I often see McLean kids hanging out together after school in downtown McLean. I don't see that among Langley kids as often, either in downtown McLean or when I'm in Great Falls Village in the afternoon.

These are just my observations and impressions and no doubt others may have a different perspective.

[Anonymous]

This cannot be serious ^^^

[Anonymous]

Makes sense to me when Langley kids can live so far apart. Some live near Arlington and others near the Loudoun border.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My impression is that both Langley and McLean are very strong schools, but that McLean has a stronger sense of "school spirit" than Langley.

Three examples:

1. McLean girls played Langley girls for the district basketball championship this February. Several hundred McLean students came to the game, which was held at a neutral site (neither McLean nor Langley), to support their team. Only a few dozen Langley kids were at the game, which McLean won.

2. On the Instagram pages for post-graduation plans, about 1/3 of McLean's senior class has posted their plans so far. At Langley, it's less than 1/5th of the senior class.

3. I often see McLean kids hanging out together after school in downtown McLean. I don't see that among Langley kids as often, either in downtown McLean or when I'm in Great Falls Village in the afternoon.

These are just my observations and impressions and no doubt others may have a different perspective.

((sigh))

My kids hang out with their friends in their homes, or at the school during their activities. In fact, my DD spends most of her afternoons at school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My impression is that both Langley and McLean are very strong schools, but that McLean has a stronger sense of "school spirit" than Langley.

Three examples:

1. McLean girls played Langley girls for the district basketball championship this February. Several hundred McLean students came to the game, which was held at a neutral site (neither McLean nor Langley), to support their team. Only a few dozen Langley kids were at the game, which McLean won.

2. On the Instagram pages for post-graduation plans, about 1/3 of McLean's senior class has posted their plans so far. At Langley, it's less than 1/5th of the senior class.

3. I often see McLean kids hanging out together after school in downtown McLean. I don't see that among Langley kids as often, either in downtown McLean or when I'm in Great Falls Village in the afternoon.

These are just my observations and impressions and no doubt others may have a different perspective.

((sigh))

My kids hang out with their friends in their homes, or at the school during their activities. In fact, my DD spends most of her afternoons at school.

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That post is absurd. Quite a few very insecure posts here that aren't reflecting well on McLean.

[Anonymous]

Or maybe the anecdotes don’t reflect well on Langley?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Or maybe the anecdotes don’t reflect well on Langley?

You mean the made up "anecdotes"?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cooper and Langley will both have brand new state of the art facilities with all the bells and whistles. (Langley’s construction already wrapped up and the school is beautiful.) Academics at both pyramids are good, so why not simply pick the Langley pyramid which has both the high academic standards and state of the art facilities?

Hopefully, if the OP is talking about moving with an elementary school strident, they will do some sort of renovation at McLean by the time they are sending kid(s) to high school.

Regardless, both are good and both have issues. McLean’s campus is old, and Langley has a reputation for rich people drug problems (no idea if that’s true). But they are both close enough to the same that I wouldn’t make a housing decision based on one versus the other.

My DD went there. It can be if the kid wasn't well-parented. But my kid wasn't one of those with an expensive car in the student parking lot, either. But it's the same at McLean School.

[Anonymous]

We moved last year to Northern Virginia from Los Altos California last year with 4th and 5th graders. We rented a place so that the kids could attend Franklin Sherman ES.  My wife and I checked out LongFellow/Mclean and Cooper/Langley Pyramid and decided that Langley would be much better in terms of facilities and academic performance.  McLean HS facility is awful.  My neighbor's kids complain how old it is and the bathroom is simply awful that they refuse to use it.  I've been to McLean HS myself and I have to agree with that assessment.  They are going to fix it this summer but my guess is that nothing will change.  The neighbor mentioned that trailer classes have been there since 2010.  Just awful.  We just purchased a home in Langley Pyramid and we're going to Cooper/Langley.  

[Anonymous]

We are one of the farthest out, if not the farthest, neighborhoods that is in the Langley pyramid. I grew up in this area and went to a different Fairfax County Public school high school, and I can tell you Langley‘s reputation hasn’t changed in the last 20 years. That being said, I am so excited for my kids to attend a gorgeous state of the art not overcrowded high school With fantastic amenities and academics, despite the hellish commute, we’re going to have to and from every day. Good friends of ours just moved 10 minutes down the road in McLean to avoid Mclean high school to get into Langley pyramid. That says a lot. Because moving sucks hard.

[Anonymous]

Both are great pyramids so you really can't go wrong. I would take the Langley bashing with a grain of salt, it's very wealthy and highly rated so it gets picked on a lot. No school is perfect.

[Anonymous]

We looked at the Langley district but passed. One factor was that so many of the families with kids there we knew sent them to privates. Couldn’t really see the upside to sending a kid to Langley and then having neighbors looking down on FCPS and talking about Potomac or Georgetown Prep. McLean is just as strong academically, but there’s more diversity and more of the families send their kids to the public schools (although that is starting to change in the areas that are filling up with the $3M houses). The facilities at MHS obviously aren’t the best, but the teachers and administrators are great and it’s fantastic having all the schools (ES/MS/HS) close by.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We moved last year to Northern Virginia from Los Altos California last year with 4th and 5th graders. We rented a place so that the kids could attend Franklin Sherman ES.  My wife and I checked out LongFellow/Mclean and Cooper/Langley Pyramid and decided that Langley would be much better in terms of facilities and academic performance.  McLean HS facility is awful.  My neighbor's kids complain how old it is and the bathroom is simply awful that they refuse to use it.  I've been to McLean HS myself and I have to agree with that assessment.  They are going to fix it this summer but my guess is that nothing will change.  The neighbor mentioned that trailer classes have been there since 2010.  Just awful.  We just purchased a home in Langley Pyramid and we're going to Cooper/Langley.  

So you moved from one of the more expensive suburbs in the bay area to the Langley pyramid locally - not a surprise.

Did you choose private school or Langley HS? Were your kids in private school before?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:McLean ratings have fallen to a 7 but langley is still rated high. Obvious mismanagement of funds for McLean as their buildings are rotting and falling apart and over crowded where cooper and Langley have gotten recent renovations and expansions.

That’s bc McLean is more diverse but you already knew this PP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:McLean and Longfellow are overcrowded.

Longfellow is not overcrowded.

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Longfellow is certainly overcrowded. They won't even let the kids take their backpacks to class due to the crowding.