School Boundary changes

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From what I can tell, the disruption always falls on someone else's shoulders, never Langley.

Even our SB is not going to let Langley's enrollment go down that much. It's already pretty low.

Link? With some prior McLean neighborhoods now attending, plus the new development on Rt. 7/Towlston, there is no way Langley's enrollment is "low."

How many kids went from McLean? Langley's enrollment was under 2000 last year. I'm guessing that with people going to private because of COVID, it could be lower this year (not counting the new kids) I'm not familiar with the area--how large is the new development and is it multi-family or single family?

The Toll Bros. development is 102 single-family houses.

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know what boundaries are being considered for change?

Assuming NOT Langley since they just had a boundary adjustment.

The school is years out. They don't even have a site yet.

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Anonymous wrote:When schools increase in diversity, it benefits every single child in that school.

Completely incorrect.

+100000, it often benefits no one.

I’m getting a good feel now for the mindset that made sure no apartments ended up at Langley.

Elaine Tholen must be so proud that her biggest fans think diversity is bad.

DP.
I have no problem with diversity. Langley is an incredibly diverse school, but no one wants to acknowledge that because apparently it’s not the “right” kind of diversity. I *do* have a problem with the social engineering that many of you would love to make happen. Sorry, when you have to bus kids in in order to fulfill certain “diversity” requirements, there is a big problem. Not interested in being a part of your bizarre fantasies.

There are kids being bussed 14.5 miles to Langley. Surely that is its own form of "social engineering"?

So you’d prefer they attend the closet school - WHICH IS OVERCROWDED? Please explain how this would help HHS. We’ll wait.

Herndon is being expanded to 2500 seats and had an enrollment under 2200 for most of last year. Seems like there's space, or will be soon (and that doesn't take into account the additional seats that might open up later at HHS if a new school is built).

Perhaps you've seen the writing on the wall, and don't like it. Good luck with your next effort to replace the entire School Board.

I don't care one way or the other if anyone is redistricted to Herndon or not. It wouldn't affect me, either way. The fact is, however, that it's extremely unlikely and this constant beating the drum about a very unlikely prospect, years away, makes you look... unstable, to say the least.

And yet you keep posting, constantly.

It doesn't merely border on the pathological to keep predicting the outcome of things you don't control, as if you had a crystal ball. Rather, it betrays some deep, and very obvious, insecurity on your part.

Wow, look in the mirror. You have no idea who is posting here, or how often. And your entire post is utter projection. Do better.

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Tysons will overcrowd Marshall with all the new development. I would guess Marshall kids could be moved to McLean, McLean kids to Langley, Langley kids to Herndon.

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How many kids went from McLean? Langley's enrollment was under 2000 last year. I'm guessing that with people going to private because of COVID, it could be lower this year (not counting the new kids) I'm not familiar with the area--how large is the new development and is it multi-family or single family?


The Toll Bros. development is 102 single-family houses.

Back in the day, FCPS had a formula to predict number of kids. I'm guessing 50-75 max. and probably less. Any kids won't all be in high school at the same time

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Anonymous wrote:Tysons will overcrowd Marshall with all the new development. I would guess Marshall kids could be moved to McLean, McLean kids to Langley, Langley kids to Herndon.

Shhhh. This possibility is too logical and will incite the wrath of the sniper from the other thread. Best to treat the school on the northern edge of the county as of it didn’t exist. If Marshall and McLean get overcrowded, FCPS will need another solution.

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Anonymous wrote:Tysons will overcrowd Marshall with all the new development. I would guess Marshall kids could be moved to McLean, McLean kids to Langley, Langley kids to Herndon.

It's also possible that Marshall kids in Vienna would get moved to Madison, which had slightly over 2200 kids last year (which included over 100 students transfers from other pyramids) but is being expanded to 2500 seats. There isn't nearly as much development in Vienna as in Tysons so Madison might have room.

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How many kids went from McLean? Langley's enrollment was under 2000 last year. I'm guessing that with people going to private because of COVID, it could be lower this year (not counting the new kids) I'm not familiar with the area--how large is the new development and is it multi-family or single family?


The Toll Bros. development is 102 single-family houses.

Back in the day, FCPS had a formula to predict number of kids. I'm guessing 50-75 max. and probably less. Any kids won't all be in high school at the same time

From what I can tell, the last yield formula published by FCPS was from about 5-6 years ago and predicted that 100 new single-family houses would yield roughly 18 high school students at any point in time. They may have updated the formula since then. I don't know how rigorously they were validated; they were mostly used to solicit proffers from developers.

As for kids coming to Langley from McLean, that number is also below 20 this year. Rising 9th graders had the option to pick between McLean and Langley, and most decided to stay with their middle school peers from Longfellow at McLean rather than reunite with their elementary school peers from Colvin Run and Spring Hill at Langley. The numbers will go up starting in the fall of 2022, as students in the redistricted neighborhoods will no longer have an option to attend either school.

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From what I can tell, the disruption always falls on someone else's shoulders, never Langley.

Even our SB is not going to let Langley's enrollment go down that much. It's already pretty low.

Link? With some prior McLean neighborhoods now attending, plus the new development on Rt. 7/Towlston, there is no way Langley's enrollment is "low."

How many kids went from McLean? Langley's enrollment was under 2000 last year. I'm guessing that with people going to private because of COVID, it could be lower this year (not counting the new kids) I'm not familiar with the area--how large is the new development and is it multi-family or single family?

The Toll Bros. development is 102 single-family houses.

so in 10 years there may 50 more kids in the HS

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From what I can tell, the disruption always falls on someone else's shoulders, never Langley.

Even our SB is not going to let Langley's enrollment go down that much. It's already pretty low.

Link? With some prior McLean neighborhoods now attending, plus the new development on Rt. 7/Towlston, there is no way Langley's enrollment is "low."

How many kids went from McLean? Langley's enrollment was under 2000 last year. I'm guessing that with people going to private because of COVID, it could be lower this year (not counting the new kids) I'm not familiar with the area--how large is the new development and is it multi-family or single family?

The Toll Bros. development is 102 single-family houses.

so in 10 years there may 50 more kids in the HS

Do you mean just from that one development?

The Langley/McLean boundary change is supposed to add approximately 190 more kids to Langley, once fully phased in, and Langley will also pick up dozens more kids from Cooper who in the past would have gone to TJ but will be attending Langley in the future due to the TJ admissions changes.

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Anonymous wrote:The tj changes could increase demand for Langley.

True. More children who won't get into TJ will be going to their zoned school, and a fair number used to come from Langley if I am recalling it right.

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Anonymous wrote:The tj changes could increase demand for Langley.

True. More children who won't get into TJ will be going to their zoned school, and a fair number used to come from Langley if I am recalling it right.

It’s not just that. It’s also the families that will now decide the sure thing of a Langley is a better bet than taking a chance on an increasingly subjective admissions process at TJ.

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Anonymous wrote:Tysons will overcrowd Marshall with all the new development. I would guess Marshall kids could be moved to McLean, McLean kids to Langley, Langley kids to Herndon.

It's also possible that Marshall kids in Vienna would get moved to Madison, which had slightly over 2200 kids last year (which included over 100 students transfers from other pyramids) but is being expanded to 2500 seats. There isn't nearly as much development in Vienna as in Tysons so Madison might have room.

Some Langley/Great Falls kids could be moved to south lakes as well. Some Great Falls kids used to go there in the 80’s too.

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Some Langley/Great Falls kids could be moved to south lakes as well. Some Great Falls kids used to go there in the 80’s too.

They tried that during the 2008 redistricting. Janie wouldn't let them.

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Anonymous wrote:The tj changes could increase demand for Langley.

True. More children who won't get into TJ will be going to their zoned school, and a fair number used to come from Langley if I am recalling it right.

It’s not just that. It’s also the families that will now decide the sure thing of a Langley is a better bet than taking a chance on an increasingly subjective admissions process at TJ.

I don't know much about past admissions but getting into TJ was never a guarantee. I know someone with a superstar kid who didn't get in and went on to great success at South Lakes. Though, I suppose there were people in the past who did the math and decided to "gamble" on a "lesser" pyramid figuring their kid would make it in to TJ and they could save commute time/money.