Future Western High School

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here.

This is just my personal observation/speculation although I’ve been following this topic closely.

1. The possibility of a new school coming to fruition is higher than ever given that it’s going to be on the referendum. This is a tangible action which never happened before.

2. Seems like the Hutchison site is very likely. The CIP MAP shows it and the FPAC has been recommending it.

3. Boundary changes will obviously happen. But this is just one high school and FCPS has more than 25 high schools. I really don’t think the county wide boundary adjustment would happen.

4. Hutchison kids will go to the new school. It’s just too close. That means some relief to Herndon.

5. That doesn’t necessarily mean that Herndon will get Langley kids. Langley was never included as a potentially impacted school in the CIP. Strauss once mentioned that possibility verbally but that’s about it and she is gone.



Herndon Last year- 2200 students. Capacity is now 2500. TBD on Enrollment # this year.
IF Hutchinson kids (largest # of students by Feeder to HHS) go to new school. Even with some growth - I could see it being a 2000 student school with 2500 capacity. Without Hutch and without adding anywhere else.

6. There are some people who want to stick it to Langley by moving Great Falls kids from Langley and moving Tysons (apartment) kids to Langley. There are also some Grear Falls moms on this board who oppose any potential threat to the Langley boundary.

7. Personally I think the high school will get Carson kids plus Hutchison kids giving relief to Herndon, Westfield, South Lakes, and Oakton. Westfield in turn would give relief to Centreville and Chantilly. On the other hand, Herndon will not be able to give releif to Langley. This is because 1) Herndon area is expected to grow fast (look at the town’s development plans), 2) CIP includes only six schools I mentioned but didn’t include Langley, and 3) the political opposition would be too strong.

[Anonymous]

Did anyone else see the boundary meeting email today? It will discuss the criteria to determine boundary changes not the boundary changes.

[Anonymous]

Hutchison isn’t ideal but where else is there land between it and Carson? Developers have scooped up all the vacant land there and have already started building. Maybe take over the clock tower commercial site? Anywhere they put the HS will make traffic worse. This is Fairfax county!

Also, is it true that Westfields is artificially under capacity? Is the over/under enrollment calculated based on the ideal number for each school (about 2k?) instead of its actual max capacity (3k)?

Who said it had to be between Carson and Hutchison? They had a perfect site at Carson and gave it away for political reasons to the Saudi's. Then they lied and said it wasn't enough space for a high school--but Saudi website says it is on 40 acres. For comparison, Chantilly is on about 17..

Hutchison is not just not ideal, it would be terrible. Wonder if the School Board has had VDOT consider the traffic impact on it?

Westfield was over 2600 last year. I do know it was expanded to have 3000 capacity--don't know if the extra capacity is being utilized.

I don't know where to find the capacity of each school. Perhaps someone could weigh in on that. I just remember from the boundary study in 2008 that Westfield had capacity of 3000 but Stu and Katjy decided (right after the expansion, paint was hardly dry) that was too big.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

The situation with kids who live Centreville and Clifton going to Fairfax is a result of weird boundaries due to all Fairfax City kids attending Fairfax, even though some are closer to Oakton and Woodson, and Madison/Oakton/Fairfax/Woodson being so close to one another. It's also not ideal, as there are families at Fairfax who'd like to send their kids to Centreville, which is closer.

This comment makes no sense at all. Yes, all Fairfax City kids go to Fairfax. But, the reason those kids out near Clifton/Centreville go there is because of the overcrowding at Centreville. Period. Some of them live a mile from Centreville. The next closest school to them is Chantilly, which is also overcrowded. It has nothing to do with Woodson or Oakton.

Herndon is being expanded to 2500 seats, so between those additional seats and another 2500 or seats that might be added with a new high school, it is certainly possible that Herndon HS could have space to take on students from Langley, and Langley in turn might be able to accommodate more students who live closer to the school than the western parts of Great Falls.

When and if there is space at Herndon, that could be considered. Right now--or, at least, last year--Herndon has many more kids than Langley.

Of course, that all remains to be determined. What is unfortunate, however, is the prospect that people will actively work behind the scenes to kill the construction of a new school simply because they don't want Langley's boundaries even potentially to be revisited, or the idea that nothing can move forward unless Langley, alone among the high schools attended by students living in the western part of the county, receives some sort of iron-clad guarantee ahead of time that it will be scoped out of any future adjustments. No single school community should be allowed to exert such an outsized influence on FCPS decisions.

I have no idea what the future holds iwth capacity and projections. There are schools that are bursting at the seams--and they are not Langley. My objection to the Hutchison site is traffic mitigation. It would be a horrible place for a high school. I doubt seriously that anyone plans to put a bridge across the toll road to help the traffic pattern and there is nowhere else to go but Elden St which can hardly handle the traffic there at present during commuter hours. With Metro coming, commuter traffic will be worse.

Hutchison isn’t ideal but where else is there land between it and Carson? Developers have scooped up all the vacant land there and have already started building. Maybe take over the clock tower commercial site? Anywhere they put the HS will make traffic worse. This is Fairfax county!

Also, is it true that Westfields is artificially under capacity? Is the over/under enrollment calculated based on the ideal number for each school (about 2k?) instead of its actual max capacity (3k)?

The over/under numbers are calculated based on the "actual" maximum capacity, not the "ideal high school number" of around 2100 students that FCPS tossed out about 14 years ago and then quickly forgot. But the "actual" maximum capacity also can get adjusted depending on how the space within a school is being used at a particular time, and some school programs take up more space per student than others. It is not uncommon to see FCPS adjust the stated maximum capacities of schools over time even when a school hasn't actually received an addition. They also increase the maximum capacity when a school gets a temporary modular, although trailers are excluded from the calculations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here.

This is just my personal observation/speculation although I’ve been following this topic closely.

1. The possibility of a new school coming to fruition is higher than ever given that it’s going to be on the referendum. This is a tangible action which never happened before.

2. Seems like the Hutchison site is very likely. The CIP MAP shows it and the FPAC has been recommending it.

3. Boundary changes will obviously happen. But this is just one high school and FCPS has more than 25 high schools. I really don’t think the county wide boundary adjustment would happen.

4. Hutchison kids will go to the new school. It’s just too close. That means some relief to Herndon.

5. That doesn’t necessarily mean that Herndon will get Langley kids. Langley was never included as a potentially impacted school in the CIP. Strauss once mentioned that possibility verbally but that’s about it and she is gone.

6. There are some people who want to stick it to Langley by moving Great Falls kids from Langley and moving Tysons (apartment) kids to Langley. There are also some Grear Falls moms on this board who oppose any potential threat to the Langley boundary.

7. Personally I think the high school will get Carson kids plus Hutchison kids giving relief to Herndon, Westfield, South Lakes, and Oakton. Westfield in turn would give relief to Centreville and Chantilly. On the other hand, Herndon will not be able to give releif to Langley. This is because 1) Herndon area is expected to grow fast (look at the town’s development plans), 2) CIP includes only six schools I mentioned but didn’t include Langley, and 3) the political opposition would be too strong.

I guess we’ll see. By the time the new school is built there may have been just as much growth in other parts of the county as Herndon, if not more. And the School Board making the decisions about boundary adjustments will likely be a different group than the current board.

Disagree.

The population growth will be very uneven throughout the county. The student enrollment actually decrease in certain areas. You have to look at the demogrphics and development plans. The county has a significnat development plans across the Silver line. High Hispanic population in Herndon and we all know which group has the highest birth rates.

That's too crude an assumption. If you look at the HS that's seen the most growth over the past decade or so, it's probably Marshall, and Marshall has a lower percentage of Hispanic kids than most FCPS pyramids.

As for the development plans, for sure there are plans along the Silver Line extension, but also plans (and actual developments) in other places, including Tysons, West Falls Church, and the Route 1 corridor.

Yes it was a simple generalization. But my argument still stands. The county will see uneven population growth depending on the areas (you know Langley’s enrollment is not growing?) and Herndon will have a higher growth. Read the CIP:

“The anticipation of the completion of the Silver Line Metro has already spurred higher density residential growth along that corridor which may result in an increase in students within FCPS.
The FY 2022-26 CIP continues to include the construction of a new high school in the western area of the county to provide capacity relief for high schools in the Centreville, Chantilly, Herndon, Oakton, South Lakes, and Westfield areas.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did anyone else see the boundary meeting email today? It will discuss the criteria to determine boundary changes not the boundary changes.

No one?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Hutchison isn’t ideal but where else is there land between it and Carson? Developers have scooped up all the vacant land there and have already started building. Maybe take over the clock tower commercial site? Anywhere they put the HS will make traffic worse. This is Fairfax county!

Also, is it true that Westfields is artificially under capacity? Is the over/under enrollment calculated based on the ideal number for each school (about 2k?) instead of its actual max capacity (3k)?

Who said it had to be between Carson and Hutchison? They had a perfect site at Carson and gave it away for political reasons to the Saudi's. Then they lied and said it wasn't enough space for a high school--but Saudi website says it is on 40 acres. For comparison, Chantilly is on about 17..

Hutchison is not just not ideal, it would be terrible. Wonder if the School Board has had VDOT consider the traffic impact on it?

Westfield was over 2600 last year. I do know it was expanded to have 3000 capacity--don't know if the extra capacity is being utilized.

I don't know where to find the capacity of each school. Perhaps someone could weigh in on that. I just remember from the boundary study in 2008 that Westfield had capacity of 3000 but Stu and Katjy decided (right after the expansion, paint was hardly dry) that was too big.

You can find information about capacities and enrollments at the following site: https://www.fcps.edu/about-fcps/facilities-planning-future/facilities-and-membership-dashboards

The last reported information for Westfield is that it had a capacity of 2820 in SY 2020-21 and an enrollment of 2651. It is possible that its reported capacity was higher than 2820 at some point in the past.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here.

This is just my personal observation/speculation although I’ve been following this topic closely.

1. The possibility of a new school coming to fruition is higher than ever given that it’s going to be on the referendum. This is a tangible action which never happened before.

2. Seems like the Hutchison site is very likely. The CIP MAP shows it and the FPAC has been recommending it.

3. Boundary changes will obviously happen. But this is just one high school and FCPS has more than 25 high schools. I really don’t think the county wide boundary adjustment would happen.

4. Hutchison kids will go to the new school. It’s just too close. That means some relief to Herndon.

5. That doesn’t necessarily mean that Herndon will get Langley kids. Langley was never included as a potentially impacted school in the CIP. Strauss once mentioned that possibility verbally but that’s about it and she is gone.

6. There are some people who want to stick it to Langley by moving Great Falls kids from Langley and moving Tysons (apartment) kids to Langley. There are also some Grear Falls moms on this board who oppose any potential threat to the Langley boundary.

7. Personally I think the high school will get Carson kids plus Hutchison kids giving relief to Herndon, Westfield, South Lakes, and Oakton. Westfield in turn would give relief to Centreville and Chantilly. On the other hand, Herndon will not be able to give releif to Langley. This is because 1) Herndon area is expected to grow fast (look at the town’s development plans), 2) CIP includes only six schools I mentioned but didn’t include Langley, and 3) the political opposition would be too strong.

I guess we’ll see. By the time the new school is built there may have been just as much growth in other parts of the county as Herndon, if not more. And the School Board making the decisions about boundary adjustments will likely be a different group than the current board.

Disagree.

The population growth will be very uneven throughout the county. The student enrollment actually decrease in certain areas. You have to look at the demogrphics and development plans. The county has a significnat development plans across the Silver line. High Hispanic population in Herndon and we all know which group has the highest birth rates.

That's too crude an assumption. If you look at the HS that's seen the most growth over the past decade or so, it's probably Marshall, and Marshall has a lower percentage of Hispanic kids than most FCPS pyramids.

As for the development plans, for sure there are plans along the Silver Line extension, but also plans (and actual developments) in other places, including Tysons, West Falls Church, and the Route 1 corridor.

Yes it was a simple generalization. But my argument still stands. The county will see uneven population growth depending on the areas (you know Langley’s enrollment is not growing?) and Herndon will have a higher growth. Read the CIP:

“The anticipation of the completion of the Silver Line Metro has already spurred higher density residential growth along that corridor which may result in an increase in students within FCPS.
The FY 2022-26 CIP continues to include the construction of a new high school in the western area of the county to provide capacity relief for high schools in the Centreville, Chantilly, Herndon, Oakton, South Lakes, and Westfield areas.”

Yes, of course, the county will see uneven population growth. But the growth is just as likely to occur in the areas currently served by Metro slated for future development as along the future stations also slated for development.

And we can repeat the one-line sentence about the schools for which a new high school might provide capacity relief until we're all blue in the face. It does not mean that those will be the only schools affected by the new school. That won't be decided until the new school is built, and it will ultimately be determined by a future School Board - not the one elected in 2019 (few, if any, of whose members are likely to still be serving when the decisions are made).

[Anonymous]

What communities are most likely to start graying in the next 10-20 years?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here.

This is just my personal observation/speculation although I’ve been following this topic closely.

1. The possibility of a new school coming to fruition is higher than ever given that it’s going to be on the referendum. This is a tangible action which never happened before.

2. Seems like the Hutchison site is very likely. The CIP MAP shows it and the FPAC has been recommending it.

3. Boundary changes will obviously happen. But this is just one high school and FCPS has more than 25 high schools. I really don’t think the county wide boundary adjustment would happen.

4. Hutchison kids will go to the new school. It’s just too close. That means some relief to Herndon.

5. That doesn’t necessarily mean that Herndon will get Langley kids. Langley was never included as a potentially impacted school in the CIP. Strauss once mentioned that possibility verbally but that’s about it and she is gone.

6. There are some people who want to stick it to Langley by moving Great Falls kids from Langley and moving Tysons (apartment) kids to Langley. There are also some Grear Falls moms on this board who oppose any potential threat to the Langley boundary.

7. Personally I think the high school will get Carson kids plus Hutchison kids giving relief to Herndon, Westfield, South Lakes, and Oakton. Westfield in turn would give relief to Centreville and Chantilly. On the other hand, Herndon will not be able to give releif to Langley. This is because 1) Herndon area is expected to grow fast (look at the town’s development plans), 2) CIP includes only six schools I mentioned but didn’t include Langley, and 3) the political opposition would be too strong.

I guess we’ll see. By the time the new school is built there may have been just as much growth in other parts of the county as Herndon, if not more. And the School Board making the decisions about boundary adjustments will likely be a different group than the current board.

Disagree.

The population growth will be very uneven throughout the county. The student enrollment actually decrease in certain areas. You have to look at the demogrphics and development plans. The county has a significnat development plans across the Silver line. High Hispanic population in Herndon and we all know which group has the highest birth rates.

That's too crude an assumption. If you look at the HS that's seen the most growth over the past decade or so, it's probably Marshall, and Marshall has a lower percentage of Hispanic kids than most FCPS pyramids.

As for the development plans, for sure there are plans along the Silver Line extension, but also plans (and actual developments) in other places, including Tysons, West Falls Church, and the Route 1 corridor.

Yes it was a simple generalization. But my argument still stands. The county will see uneven population growth depending on the areas (you know Langley’s enrollment is not growing?) and Herndon will have a higher growth. Read the CIP:

“The anticipation of the completion of the Silver Line Metro has already spurred higher density residential growth along that corridor which may result in an increase in students within FCPS.
The FY 2022-26 CIP continues to include the construction of a new high school in the western area of the county to provide capacity relief for high schools in the Centreville, Chantilly, Herndon, Oakton, South Lakes, and Westfield areas.”

Yes, of course, the county will see uneven population growth. But the growth is just as likely to occur in the areas currently served by Metro slated for future development as along the future stations also slated for development.

And we can repeat the one-line sentence about the schools for which a new high school might provide capacity relief until we're all blue in the face. It does not mean that those will be the only schools affected by the new school. That won't be decided until the new school is built, and it will ultimately be determined by a future School Board - not the one elected in 2019 (few, if any, of whose members are likely to still be serving when the decisions are made).

Let’s use the common sense. Which areas would have more population growth? Between the areas which have the metro and already developed and the areas where the metro are going to be bulit and the density requirement is greatly reduced?

To me the answer is obvious but in the end it doesn’t even matter. The basic argument here is that Herndon would not provide the relief to Langley becuase Herndon is expected to grow fast while Langley is not going to grow. Herndon doesn’t need to grow the fastest. As long as it grows faster than Langley, which I think you would agree, the county officials will have a hard time finding the justification of moving kids from Langley to Herndon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If Great Falls west of Springvale used to go to Herndon when there weren’t two high schools in Herndon, then it’s entirely plausible it will get moved back to Herndon if they build at Hutchison, especially if there is continued growth in other parts of the county closer to Langley. And a future School Board might want to reduce the poverty rates at Herndon, just as they aspired to do at South Lakes with the 2008 redistricting.

None of that is punishing Langley for a “transgression.” It would simply be looking at where capacity exists and how best to operate County schools equitably and efficiently.

Langley is not overcrowded currently, so there is no reason to move areas on that basis.

The area has grown/developed significantly since the boundary was last changed, and moving areas from Langley to Herndon would likely just cause that school to be crowded and leave Langley undercapacity.

But, as others have said, by the time the new high school nears completion things may have changed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did anyone else see the boundary meeting email today? It will discuss the criteria to determine boundary changes not the boundary changes.

As with all things related to "boundary changes" in FCPS.... they go through the motions with "community comment" sessions and then they do whatever they had planned to do anyway.

My youngest is in 9th grade, so I'm not getting too worked up about any of this. But, I have every expectation that they have already set their agenda for the next 5-10 years and they are only seeking comment to check the box. They want to radically shift the boundaries to socially balance the schools in the name of "equity." And they want to wait until after the next election cycle to tell everyone what the actual changes will be.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DP, but as long as the Langley posters keep arrogantly insisting that in no way, shape, or form can they possibly be affected by a new western high school, when kids living next door to Loudoun are getting bussed 12 miles or so to a school near Arlington, the more others will keep reminding them they live in the same county as the rest of us.

And the whole “look at the map” shtick is getting old when the map highlights how far we’ve been bussing rich kids to their rich-kid school.

This thread is starting to go in circles, but posts like this one keep ignoring that bussing Great Falls kids to Langley is the right thing to do from a capacity management standpoint -- Langley is well under capacity (i.e. needs students) and Great Falls parents want their kids to go there. There is literally no incentive for the School Board -- irrespective of who is on the School Board -- to change that. The comments on this thread largely reinforce the point. There don't appear to be any Langley parents from outside Great Falls saying "get those snotty kids out of our school." There also don't appear to be any parents looking to get redistricted into Langley.

Yes, there are parts of Great Falls that are closer to Herndon. But there are also plenty of high schools in the western part of the county that need capacity relief. If the new school gets built, that will be the target for redistricting. It would be huge stretch to lump Langley -- on the other side of the county -- into that discussion. And, like it or not, there is no logical reason to move kids out of a school that is below capacity even if another school is more convenient.

(Although worth noting is that the parts of Great Falls that are closest to Herndon are also the most lightly populated. So you aren't talking about a lot of students.)

Even Tysons growth likely doesn't change that analysis. The only way that Great Falls kids are getting moved is through an across-the-board redistricting . . . and that would likely be political suicide for the School Board.

The above post is just bogus. The low density areas that feed to Langley are western Mclean - outside the special tax district which go to Spring Hill ES, most of the Great Falls ES attendance area, a portion of the Colvin Run attendance area that used to go to Great Falls ES, small portion of what remained at Forestville.

Exactly what parts of Great Falls have Herndon, Reston, or Vienna addresses? " Parts of Great Falls closest to Herndon HS" is so wrong because those residences are not in Great Falls except for Holly Knoll which is not low density and neither are those Herndon addresses.

Pull up boundary maps- easy to find. Here's who got sent to Colvin Run from Forestville [on green spot on the left called Nike Park], Great Falls [near green spot called Great Falls Grange], and Spring Hill. Across Route 7 from Colvin Run is the Toll Bros development. No administrative boundary change from Spring Hill. Find the logic. I cannot unless FCPS is waiting for something big.

Safa Court, Herndon-Forestville, Cooper, Langley. 2.6 miles to Herndon HS. 14.2 to 17 miles to Langley depending on the route.

Knock on doors and ask those neighborhoods to sign a petition to the school board to move them to Herndon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here.

This is just my personal observation/speculation although I’ve been following this topic closely.

1. The possibility of a new school coming to fruition is higher than ever given that it’s going to be on the referendum. This is a tangible action which never happened before.

2. Seems like the Hutchison site is very likely. The CIP MAP shows it and the FPAC has been recommending it.

3. Boundary changes will obviously happen. But this is just one high school and FCPS has more than 25 high schools. I really don’t think the county wide boundary adjustment would happen.

4. Hutchison kids will go to the new school. It’s just too close. That means some relief to Herndon.

5. That doesn’t necessarily mean that Herndon will get Langley kids. Langley was never included as a potentially impacted school in the CIP. Strauss once mentioned that possibility verbally but that’s about it and she is gone.

6. There are some people who want to stick it to Langley by moving Great Falls kids from Langley and moving Tysons (apartment) kids to Langley. There are also some Grear Falls moms on this board who oppose any potential threat to the Langley boundary.

7. Personally I think the high school will get Carson kids plus Hutchison kids giving relief to Herndon, Westfield, South Lakes, and Oakton. Westfield in turn would give relief to Centreville and Chantilly. On the other hand, Herndon will not be able to give releif to Langley. This is because 1) Herndon area is expected to grow fast (look at the town’s development plans), 2) CIP includes only six schools I mentioned but didn’t include Langley, and 3) the political opposition would be too strong.

I guess we’ll see. By the time the new school is built there may have been just as much growth in other parts of the county as Herndon, if not more. And the School Board making the decisions about boundary adjustments will likely be a different group than the current board.

Disagree.

The population growth will be very uneven throughout the county. The student enrollment actually decrease in certain areas. You have to look at the demogrphics and development plans. The county has a significnat development plans across the Silver line. High Hispanic population in Herndon and we all know which group has the highest birth rates.

That's too crude an assumption. If you look at the HS that's seen the most growth over the past decade or so, it's probably Marshall, and Marshall has a lower percentage of Hispanic kids than most FCPS pyramids.

As for the development plans, for sure there are plans along the Silver Line extension, but also plans (and actual developments) in other places, including Tysons, West Falls Church, and the Route 1 corridor.

Yes it was a simple generalization. But my argument still stands. The county will see uneven population growth depending on the areas (you know Langley’s enrollment is not growing?) and Herndon will have a higher growth. Read the CIP:

“The anticipation of the completion of the Silver Line Metro has already spurred higher density residential growth along that corridor which may result in an increase in students within FCPS.
The FY 2022-26 CIP continues to include the construction of a new high school in the western area of the county to provide capacity relief for high schools in the Centreville, Chantilly, Herndon, Oakton, South Lakes, and Westfield areas.”

Yes, of course, the county will see uneven population growth. But the growth is just as likely to occur in the areas currently served by Metro slated for future development as along the future stations also slated for development.

And we can repeat the one-line sentence about the schools for which a new high school might provide capacity relief until we're all blue in the face. It does not mean that those will be the only schools affected by the new school. That won't be decided until the new school is built, and it will ultimately be determined by a future School Board - not the one elected in 2019 (few, if any, of whose members are likely to still be serving when the decisions are made).

Let’s use the common sense. Which areas would have more population growth? Between the areas which have the metro and already developed and the areas where the metro are going to be bulit and the density requirement is greatly reduced?

To me the answer is obvious but in the end it doesn’t even matter. The basic argument here is that Herndon would not provide the relief to Langley becuase Herndon is expected to grow fast while Langley is not going to grow. Herndon doesn’t need to grow the fastest. As long as it grows faster than Langley, which I think you would agree, the county officials will have a hard time finding the justification of moving kids from Langley to Herndon.

I can't agree since it will depend not just on the growth, or lack thereof, at Langley, but also on the enrollments in other pyramids closer to Langley that are growing faster and what, if any, steps FCPS has taken in the intervening years before the new school opens to address growth at those schools.

It's been years since FCPS opened a new high school. If and when they open a new one, they should not impose artificial barriers on which boundaries to consider adjusting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, FCPS should stupidly continue to expand Langley and Cooper so even more kids whose parents are rich can be bussed to schools nowhere near they live.

I doubt that another renovation for those schools will come up before 30+ years.