What are not very expensive neighborhoods zoned for Langley - Herndon? Reston?

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I live in a 4M home about 0.5 mile from Langley HS and I let my house keeper plus her relatives to live there so that they can send 8 kids to Langley HS. I think my neighbors know about it and probably don’t like it but I don’t care because it is completely legal.

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Anonymous wrote:Will be curious to see if the next school board takes a fresh look at boundaries. The new rep for Langley is from the Herndon area, not Great Falls.

Well, we all know you’ll be obsessing about it 24/7.

Says the Langley hack posting at almost 1 AM. Lack of diversity keeping you awake at night?

Such a totally bizarre response. Hopefully you won’t spend the holidays fretting about “diversity” in schools your kids don’t even attend.

Funny you'd mention the holidays. The priorities of many Langley parents - keeping poor kids out and then acting as if it's the natural order of things - are about as far removed from the teachings of Jesus as one could imagine.

You are one odd duck. The "holidays" don't refer to one holiday vs another. Lots of religions celebrate at this time of year. But do continue obsessing and irrationally blaming Langley parents for all of your issues. Therapy could certainly help.

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Anonymous wrote:I live in a 4M home about 0.5 mile from Langley HS and I let my house keeper plus her relatives to live there so that they can send 8 kids to Langley HS. I think my neighbors know about it and probably don’t like it but I don’t care because it is completely legal.

So believable. Slow clap.

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Anonymous wrote:Agree with all the prior posters that there are many good schools with less expensive housing.

If your child is a great student, there are many schools where they will flourish. If you child is average student, a school like Langley might actually offer fewer advantages and a risk of being lost in the shuffle.

Which got me thinking - do families regret being so focused on a single pyramid/school at the cost of $/housing/commute/logistics?

FWIW, we did the opposite - stayed at the less prestigious/lower scores/lower SES school. It worked out great in the end - kept our money and our kids thrived, but there were definitely some times I worried that we were not "sacrificing" enough for the "best" education.

OP. We are looking for a HS school with good test scores that we can work to afford. If Kids work hard to be average that is okay. If they work hard to go to any local state school like GMU or if they some courses from NOVA and have no pressure of student loans is okay. Hard work habits and study any major is okay.

So we are looking for public HS with good test scores to require hard work habits for kids from HS.


You can get a HS for good test scores for budget of 900. Theres more houses for sale in the spring and summer season.

You will townhouse or house options in your budget of 850 to 900K for a HS with good test scores. But don’t assume that big boundaries will give you cheaper options if you are willing to live far from the school.

NP. Too many off topic replies here.

Topic is best neighborhoods for OP for a small house or townhouse around 900 with HS with good test scores.

NP, also looking for next year.

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Anonymous wrote:NP. Too many off topic replies here.

Topic is best neighborhoods for OP for a small house or townhouse around 900 with HS with good test scores.

NP, also looking for next year.

I’d look at a townhouse community zoned for McLean HS or Oakton HS. The academics are easily as good as Langley HS.

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Anonymous wrote:NP. Too many off topic replies here.

Topic is best neighborhoods for OP for a small house or townhouse around 900 with HS with good test scores.

NP, also looking for next year.

I’d look at a townhouse community zoned for McLean HS or Oakton HS. The academics are easily as good as Langley HS.

My advice is to stay away from McLean HS and focus on either Oakton or Langley HS. Facilities at Oakton and Langley HS are so much better and newer than McLean HS. McLean HS facility is so bad compared to either Oakton and Langley, not to mention the overcrowding issue at McLean HS.

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Anonymous wrote:NP. Too many off topic replies here.

Topic is best neighborhoods for OP for a small house or townhouse around 900 with HS with good test scores.

NP, also looking for next year.

I’d look at a townhouse community zoned for McLean HS or Oakton HS. The academics are easily as good as Langley HS.

My advice is to stay away from McLean HS and focus on either Oakton or Langley HS. Facilities at Oakton and Langley HS are so much better and newer than McLean HS. McLean HS facility is so bad compared to either Oakton and Langley, not to mention the overcrowding issue at McLean HS.

McLean is more convenient to Tysons and DC than Oakton, and livable $900K properties zoned to Langley are few and far between. There’s more to a school than its building.

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Anonymous wrote:Come on, FCPS. Show you really give a crap about equity and assign this building to Langley, not Marshall:

https://www.ffxnow.com/2023/12/20/affordable-housing-development-breaks-ground-near-spring-hill-metro-station/#more-281987

Madison, Marshal and McLean are closer to Springhill Metro than Langley. What is the obsession with Langley.

Most neighborhoods zoned to Langley are closer to other schools than to Langley. No reason why this complex couldn’t be assigned to Langley.

I don’t think this is true. You are only talking about certain part of great falls.

We are zoned for Langley and on the McLean/Great Falls border and Langley is our closest high school.

Anything in Great Falls, Reston, Herndon, or Vienna zoned to Langley is closer to another high school than to Langley, and some neighborhoods in McLean zoned to Langley are also closer to McLean.

Again, no reason why the new affordable housing in Tysons/Vienna off Spring Hill Road couldn’t be assigned to Langley. Y’all always come up with phony reasons to justify the continued segregation.

This statement is not true. Langley is the closest high school for most of Great Falls east of the village.

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Anonymous wrote:Come on, FCPS. Show you really give a crap about equity and assign this building to Langley, not Marshall:

https://www.ffxnow.com/2023/12/20/affordable-housing-development-breaks-ground-near-spring-hill-metro-station/#more-281987

Madison, Marshal and McLean are closer to Springhill Metro than Langley. What is the obsession with Langley.

Most neighborhoods zoned to Langley are closer to other schools than to Langley. No reason why this complex couldn’t be assigned to Langley.

I don’t think this is true. You are only talking about certain part of great falls.

We are zoned for Langley and on the McLean/Great Falls border and Langley is our closest high school.

Anything in Great Falls, Reston, Herndon, or Vienna zoned to Langley is closer to another high school than to Langley, and some neighborhoods in McLean zoned to Langley are also closer to McLean.

Again, no reason why the new affordable housing in Tysons/Vienna off Spring Hill Road couldn’t be assigned to Langley. Y’all always come up with phony reasons to justify the continued segregation.

This statement is not true. Langley is the closest high school for most of Great Falls east of the village.

Langley is the closest high school for some of Great Falls east of Great Falls Village, not all, and most of Great Falls is west of GFV.

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Is the affordable housing building that is being built around Spring Hill going to be slated for Langley? Doesn't Spring Hill ES go to Langley now?

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Anonymous wrote:Is the affordable housing building that is being built around Spring Hill going to be slated for Langley? Doesn't Spring Hill ES go to Langley now?

Spring Hill ES splits to Langley and McLean. The new all-affordable housing buildings off Spring Hill Road would feed to Westbriar ES/Kilmer MS/Marshall HS, but are near other areas on the other side of the Dulles Toll Road that feed to Langley and could easily be reassigned. There would be no need to create an attendance island and Langley would remain under-enrolled. Karl Frisch and Robyn Lady would just need to coordinate and get Dr. Reid to make it happen.

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Anonymous wrote:Is the affordable housing building that is being built around Spring Hill going to be slated for Langley? Doesn't Spring Hill ES go to Langley now?

Spring Hill ES splits to Langley and McLean. The new all-affordable housing buildings off Spring Hill Road would feed to Westbriar ES/Kilmer MS/Marshall HS, but are near other areas on the other side of the Dulles Toll Road that feed to Langley and could easily be reassigned. There would be no need to create an attendance island and Langley would remain under-enrolled. Karl Frisch and Robyn Lady would just need to coordinate and get Dr. Reid to make it happen.

That makes no sense if Marshall is at capacity and Langley isn’t.

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Anonymous wrote:Come on, FCPS. Show you really give a crap about equity and assign this building to Langley, not Marshall:

https://www.ffxnow.com/2023/12/20/affordable-housing-development-breaks-ground-near-spring-hill-metro-station/#more-281987

Madison, Marshal and McLean are closer to Springhill Metro than Langley. What is the obsession with Langley.

Most neighborhoods zoned to Langley are closer to other schools than to Langley. No reason why this complex couldn’t be assigned to Langley.

I don’t think this is true. You are only talking about certain part of great falls.

We are zoned for Langley and on the McLean/Great Falls border and Langley is our closest high school.

Anything in Great Falls, Reston, Herndon, or Vienna zoned to Langley is closer to another high school than to Langley, and some neighborhoods in McLean zoned to Langley are also closer to McLean.

Again, no reason why the new affordable housing in Tysons/Vienna off Spring Hill Road couldn’t be assigned to Langley. Y’all always come up with phony reasons to justify the continued segregation.

This statement is not true. Langley is the closest high school for most of Great Falls east of the village.

Langley is the closest high school for some of Great Falls east of Great Falls Village, not all, and most of Great Falls is west of GFV.

DP. The point is that Langley is indeed the closest high school for most of GF. The end.

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Anonymous wrote:Is the affordable housing building that is being built around Spring Hill going to be slated for Langley? Doesn't Spring Hill ES go to Langley now?

Spring Hill ES splits to Langley and McLean. The new all-affordable housing buildings off Spring Hill Road would feed to Westbriar ES/Kilmer MS/Marshall HS, but are near other areas on the other side of the Dulles Toll Road that feed to Langley and could easily be reassigned. There would be no need to create an attendance island and Langley would remain under-enrolled. Karl Frisch and Robyn Lady would just need to coordinate and get Dr. Reid to make it happen.

That makes no sense if Marshall is at capacity and Langley isn’t.

Huh? It’s one reason why moving the new affordable housing complex off Spring Hill Road from Marshall to Langley makes perfect sense.

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Anonymous wrote:Come on, FCPS. Show you really give a crap about equity and assign this building to Langley, not Marshall:

https://www.ffxnow.com/2023/12/20/affordable-housing-development-breaks-ground-near-spring-hill-metro-station/#more-281987

Madison, Marshal and McLean are closer to Springhill Metro than Langley. What is the obsession with Langley.

Most neighborhoods zoned to Langley are closer to other schools than to Langley. No reason why this complex couldn’t be assigned to Langley.

I don’t think this is true. You are only talking about certain part of great falls.

We are zoned for Langley and on the McLean/Great Falls border and Langley is our closest high school.

Anything in Great Falls, Reston, Herndon, or Vienna zoned to Langley is closer to another high school than to Langley, and some neighborhoods in McLean zoned to Langley are also closer to McLean.

Again, no reason why the new affordable housing in Tysons/Vienna off Spring Hill Road couldn’t be assigned to Langley. Y’all always come up with phony reasons to justify the continued segregation.

This statement is not true. Langley is the closest high school for most of Great Falls east of the village.

Langley is the closest high school for some of Great Falls east of Great Falls Village, not all, and most of Great Falls is west of GFV.

DP. The point is that Langley is indeed the closest high school for most of GF. The end.

That’s not true. Most of Great Falls is west of Great Falls Village and closer to other high schools. And some of Great Falls east of Great Falls Village is closer to other schools as well.

The point is that it’s a farce to argue that the new affordable housing complex off Spring Hill Road can’t be assigned to Langley if it’s closer to other schools when so many current Langley neighborhoods are closer to other schools.