Langley/McLean/Marshall Boundaries

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At a Jan. 14 work session, School Board Member Jane Strauss called for a limited boundary study to move students from Longfellow Middle School and McLean High School to the nearby Cooper Middle School and Langley High School attendance area.

“The boundary study would primarily focus on the north end of the Tysons area where we have some older apartment buildings,” said Strauss. “These are not new high rises, but older family-friendly buildings.”

Strauss said the change would impact students currently zoned for Spring Hill Elementary School. The change would also not take place until school year 2020 to allow more discussions with parents and planning.

Excellent news.

The apartments that feed into Spring Hill from tysons will probably go to Langley like the rest of the Elementary school. Makes sense to me. I always wondered why it was a split feeder.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At a Jan. 14 work session, School Board Member Jane Strauss called for a limited boundary study to move students from Longfellow Middle School and McLean High School to the nearby Cooper Middle School and Langley High School attendance area.

“The boundary study would primarily focus on the north end of the Tysons area where we have some older apartment buildings,” said Strauss. “These are not new high rises, but older family-friendly buildings.”

Strauss said the change would impact students currently zoned for Spring Hill Elementary School. The change would also not take place until school year 2020 to allow more discussions with parents and planning.

Excellent news.

The apartments that feed into Spring Hill from tysons will probably go to Langley like the rest of the Elementary school. Makes sense to me. I always wondered why it was a split feeder.

There is one neighborhood of single-family homes in Vienna north of the Toll Road that also feeds into Spring Hill/Longfellow/McLean. It would probably make sense to move that neighborhood to Colvin Run, which is also now a split feeder and has space, and then eliminate the split feeder at Spring Hill.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At a Jan. 14 work session, School Board Member Jane Strauss called for a limited boundary study to move students from Longfellow Middle School and McLean High School to the nearby Cooper Middle School and Langley High School attendance area.

“The boundary study would primarily focus on the north end of the Tysons area where we have some older apartment buildings,” said Strauss. “These are not new high rises, but older family-friendly buildings.”

Strauss said the change would impact students currently zoned for Spring Hill Elementary School. The change would also not take place until school year 2020 to allow more discussions with parents and planning.

Excellent news.

The apartments that feed into Spring Hill from tysons will probably go to Langley like the rest of the Elementary school. Makes sense to me. I always wondered why it was a split feeder.

There is one neighborhood of single-family homes in Vienna north of the Toll Road that also feeds into Spring Hill/Longfellow/McLean. It would probably make sense to move that neighborhood to Colvin Run, which is also now a split feeder and has space, and then eliminate the split feeder at Spring Hill.

We actually live very close to Spring Hill but zoned for a different school.

Is Spring Hill the closest school for the tysons apartments?

I was surprised to learn the tysons kids would go there since it is probably far/inconvenient.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At a Jan. 14 work session, School Board Member Jane Strauss called for a limited boundary study to move students from Longfellow Middle School and McLean High School to the nearby Cooper Middle School and Langley High School attendance area.

“The boundary study would primarily focus on the north end of the Tysons area where we have some older apartment buildings,” said Strauss. “These are not new high rises, but older family-friendly buildings.”

Strauss said the change would impact students currently zoned for Spring Hill Elementary School. The change would also not take place until school year 2020 to allow more discussions with parents and planning.

Excellent news.

The apartments that feed into Spring Hill from tysons will probably go to Langley like the rest of the Elementary school. Makes sense to me. I always wondered why it was a split feeder.

There is one neighborhood of single-family homes in Vienna north of the Toll Road that also feeds into Spring Hill/Longfellow/McLean. It would probably make sense to move that neighborhood to Colvin Run, which is also now a split feeder and has space, and then eliminate the split feeder at Spring Hill.

We actually live very close to Spring Hill but zoned for a different school.

Is Spring Hill the closest school for the tysons apartments?

I was surprised to learn the tysons kids would go there since it is probably far/inconvenient.

We're only talking about the Tysons apartments zoned to Spring Hill. Other Tysons-area apartments are zoned for Westbriar, Westgate, or Freedom Hill.

Some of the Tysons apartments zoned to Spring Hill are somewhat closer to Westbriar and Westgate than to Spring Hill, but would require a bus to cross either Route 7 or Route 123. The others are closer to Spring Hill.

All of the Tysons apartments zoned to Spring Hill are closer to Spring Hill than some parts of McLean and Great Falls off of Old Dominion or Georgetown Pike that are zoned to Spring Hill.

https://www.fcps.edu/sites/default/files/boundary-maps/springhilles_1.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At a Jan. 14 work session, School Board Member Jane Strauss called for a limited boundary study to move students from Longfellow Middle School and McLean High School to the nearby Cooper Middle School and Langley High School attendance area.

“The boundary study would primarily focus on the north end of the Tysons area where we have some older apartment buildings,” said Strauss. “These are not new high rises, but older family-friendly buildings.”

Strauss said the change would impact students currently zoned for Spring Hill Elementary School. The change would also not take place until school year 2020 to allow more discussions with parents and planning.

Excellent news.

The apartments that feed into Spring Hill from tysons will probably go to Langley like the rest of the Elementary school. Makes sense to me. I always wondered why it was a split feeder.

There is one neighborhood of single-family homes in Vienna north of the Toll Road that also feeds into Spring Hill/Longfellow/McLean. It would probably make sense to move that neighborhood to Colvin Run, which is also now a split feeder and has space, and then eliminate the split feeder at Spring Hill.

We actually live very close to Spring Hill but zoned for a different school.

Is Spring Hill the closest school for the tysons apartments?

I was surprised to learn the tysons kids would go there since it is probably far/inconvenient.

We're only talking about the Tysons apartments zoned to Spring Hill. Other Tysons-area apartments are zoned for Westbriar, Westgate, or Freedom Hill.

Some of the Tysons apartments zoned to Spring Hill are somewhat closer to Westbriar and Westgate than to Spring Hill, but would require a bus to cross either Route 7 or Route 123. The others are closer to Spring Hill.

All of the Tysons apartments zoned to Spring Hill are closer to Spring Hill than some parts of McLean and Great Falls off of Old Dominion or Georgetown Pike that are zoned to Spring Hill.

https://www.fcps.edu/sites/default/files/boundary-maps/springhilles_1.pdf

We live in the small white part within the Spring Hill zone. Wonder why we aren’t zoned for Spring Hill.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At a Jan. 14 work session, School Board Member Jane Strauss called for a limited boundary study to move students from Longfellow Middle School and McLean High School to the nearby Cooper Middle School and Langley High School attendance area.

“The boundary study would primarily focus on the north end of the Tysons area where we have some older apartment buildings,” said Strauss. “These are not new high rises, but older family-friendly buildings.”

Strauss said the change would impact students currently zoned for Spring Hill Elementary School. The change would also not take place until school year 2020 to allow more discussions with parents and planning.

Excellent news.

The apartments that feed into Spring Hill from tysons will probably go to Langley like the rest of the Elementary school. Makes sense to me. I always wondered why it was a split feeder.

There is one neighborhood of single-family homes in Vienna north of the Toll Road that also feeds into Spring Hill/Longfellow/McLean. It would probably make sense to move that neighborhood to Colvin Run, which is also now a split feeder and has space, and then eliminate the split feeder at Spring Hill.

We actually live very close to Spring Hill but zoned for a different school.

Is Spring Hill the closest school for the tysons apartments?

I was surprised to learn the tysons kids would go there since it is probably far/inconvenient.

We're only talking about the Tysons apartments zoned to Spring Hill. Other Tysons-area apartments are zoned for Westbriar, Westgate, or Freedom Hill.

Some of the Tysons apartments zoned to Spring Hill are somewhat closer to Westbriar and Westgate than to Spring Hill, but would require a bus to cross either Route 7 or Route 123. The others are closer to Spring Hill.

All of the Tysons apartments zoned to Spring Hill are closer to Spring Hill than some parts of McLean and Great Falls off of Old Dominion or Georgetown Pike that are zoned to Spring Hill.

https://www.fcps.edu/sites/default/files/boundary-maps/springhilles_1.pdf

We live in the small white part within the Spring Hill zone. Wonder why we aren’t zoned for Spring Hill.

Could be that, when they first started seriously developing the Reserve, Spring Hill was crowded and Churchill Road was not, so they did an administrative boundary change to send students there to Churchill Road.

[Anonymous]

Whatever the boundaries that change I hope they don’t dump all the low income kids into Freedom Hill and then Marshall again.

[Anonymous]

"Nothing as fierce as a rivalry between the haves and the have-mores?"

x100000

This sums up this entire thread nicely. Listen to yourselves.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"Nothing as fierce as a rivalry between the haves and the have-mores?"

x100000

This sums up this entire thread nicely. Listen to yourselves.

The thread is about whether, what and when FCPS plans to do something about significant overcrowding at one high school and a growing capacity surplus at anearby high school. Feel free to ignore it if doesn’t affect you.

[Anonymous]

So how does something like this normally work? If a kid is in the middle of elementary or middle or high school and their hood is redistricted, does that take effect when they are ready for the next school, or right away?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Whatever the boundaries that change I hope they don’t dump all the low income kids into Freedom Hill and then Marshall again.

Especially, after y'all worked so hard to get rid of them 6? years ago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Whatever the boundaries that change I hope they don’t dump all the low income kids into Freedom Hill and then Marshall again.

Especially, after y'all worked so hard to get rid of them 6? years ago.

Low-income kids haven’t been “dumped” into Marshall. The lower-income kids there live fairly close to the school. Many of the higher-income kids at GCM live closer to Madison than to Marshall.

Some of the boundaries of the Marshall feeders like Freedom Hill are pkind of convoluted, and FCPS moved some of the less expensive housing zoned to Freedom Hill to another Marshall feeder, Lemon Road, a few years ago. It doesn’t seem like FCPS would have any reason to change those boundaries again until they build or reopen another elementary school in or near Tysons.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So how does something like this normally work? If a kid is in the middle of elementary or middle or high school and their hood is redistricted, does that take effect when they are ready for the next school, or right away?

The kids already in middle or high school usually do not switch schools; instead, the changes are phased in starting with rising 7th and 9th graders. Older kids may have the option to move, but are not required to do so.

It’s tended to be a bit different at elementary schools. The rising 6th graders typically stay at the old school, and those in lower grades generally are required to move to the new school.

Also, the implementation may be deferred a year or so (for example, a change decided in the spring of 2019 might not take effect until the fall of 2020, etc).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Whatever the boundaries that change I hope they don’t dump all the low income kids into Freedom Hill and then Marshall again.

Especially, after y'all worked so hard to get rid of them 6? years ago.

Some low income kids went to another school. FH is still 28-30 % Farms. Highest of any in Vienna.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"Nothing as fierce as a rivalry between the haves and the have-mores?"

x100000

This sums up this entire thread nicely. Listen to yourselves.

The thread has been mostly factual and informative. A Langley poster got upset when reference was made to a recent basketball double-header where McLean prevailed and a picture was posted. It was only intended to underscore that McLean kids have a lot of a pride in their school, too, and that FCPS shouldn't assume people will jump at the opportunity to move to Langley despite its good reputation.

As it turns out, the journalist covering the games highlighted the exact moment captured by that picture (a McLean player dribbling between the legs of a Langley player) and the only negative comment by the journalist about the behavior of those in attendance was a reference to Langley fans "heckl[ing]" a player on the McLean girls team (which is par for the course at those games).

http://www.mcleanconnection.com/news/2019/jan/21/stout-prock-lead-mclean-boys-past-langley/

http://www.mcleanconnection.com/news/2019/jan/21/auza-dufrane-lead-mclean-rivalry-win/