Langley's Future

[Anonymous]

FCPS just updated its "capacity dashboard" that indicates the enrollment projections in the county's elementary, middle and high schools. In the Tysons area, FCPS is projecting substantial enrollment growth over the next five years at McLean, Madison and Marshall. They project that McLean will have 2217 students in 2017, Madison will have 2332, and Marshall will have 2068. In comparison, they project that Langley's enrollment will decline from 1952 students this fall to only 1770 in 2017. That seems to suggest that the McLean/Great Falls neighborhoods that feed into Langley are aging and/or that younger families either can't afford the Langley area or don't want to live that far out.

A few years ago, back when South Lakes HS was under-enrolled, people got really angry that FCPS didn't include Langley in a boundary study and reassign some Langley students to South Lakes. Based on the latest information, however, it's more likely that part of South Lakes might get assigned to Langley at some point. FCPS is now projecting that South Lakes will be seriously overcrowded by 2017.

[Anonymous]

It would make a lot more sense for them to move McLean High students to Langley. SOme of them are 1 - 4 miles away, while many of those zoned for Langly in South Lakes are much farther out. Hate for them to do anything that makes sense, though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It would make a lot more sense for them to move McLean High students to Langley. SOme of them are 1 - 4 miles away, while many of those zoned for Langly in South Lakes are much farther out. Hate for them to do anything that makes sense, though.

I guess the easiest thing would be to send the McLean HS kids at Spring Hill or Colvin Run ES to Langley. Those two schools are currently split Langley/McLean feeders, with most of the kids already going to Langley.

OTOH, South Lakes is projected to be much more overcrowded than McLean by 2017, and sending some Reston kids to Langley would actually introduce a bit of SES diversity into Saxon Country.

I guess it's idle chatter to speculate about what might happen. I'm just really surprised that FCPS expects Langley's enrollment to decline by a significant amount when big increases are projected for most schools.

[Anonymous]

I think many of the rich people have given up on public and are just going private these days.