Langley/McLean/Marshall Boundaries

[Anonymous]

Has anyone heard how FCPS plans to address the capacity imbalances at Langley, McLean and Marshall? The latest CIP has Langley at 82% of capacity next year, Marshall at 94%, and McLean at 118%. By 2023, they have Langley at 79%, Marshall at 100%, and McLean at 126%. Since the CIP doesn't commit to building an addition at McLean like they plan for Madison (even though Madison isn't projected to be as overcrowded as McLean), they must intend to change the boundaries. But they don't offer any details in the CIP as to how or when.

I know Janie Strauss is not running for re-election next year, so maybe she wants to hand this off to her successor. Have any of her possible successors weighed in on this?

[Anonymous]

Strauss told McLean parents at a PTA meeting in 2015 that FCPS would build an addition at McLean before they’d move kids to Langley. But she was running for re-election then, so who knows what will happen now.

[Anonymous]

How do the sizes of the schools and properties match up now?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Strauss told McLean parents at a PTA meeting in 2015 that FCPS would build an addition at McLean before they’d move kids to Langley. But she was running for re-election then, so who knows what will happen now.

They need to balance those schools and move some of the lower income housing from the other schools to McLean so all of the schools are at comparable capacity.

No school in that part of fcps should be allowed to go to 75% ish capacity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Strauss told McLean parents at a PTA meeting in 2015 that FCPS would build an addition at McLean before they’d move kids to Langley. But she was running for re-election then, so who knows what will happen now.

They need to balance those schools and move some of the lower income housing from the other schools to McLean so all of the schools are at comparable capacity.

No school in that part of fcps should be allowed to go to 75% ish capacity.

I think you must mean Langley - it's the school with the most capacity and the least lower-income housing. McLean has the least capacity and Marshall has the most lower-income housing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Has anyone heard how FCPS plans to address the capacity imbalances at Langley, McLean and Marshall? The latest CIP has Langley at 82% of capacity next year, Marshall at 94%, and McLean at 118%. By 2023, they have Langley at 79%, Marshall at 100%, and McLean at 126%. Since the CIP doesn't commit to building an addition at McLean like they plan for Madison (even though Madison isn't projected to be as overcrowded as McLean), they must intend to change the boundaries. But they don't offer any details in the CIP as to how or when.

I know Janie Strauss is not running for re-election next year, so maybe she wants to hand this off to her successor. Have any of her possible successors weighed in on this?

If they are going to re-draw the boundary, it means that Langley will end up with kids from more affluent parts of Mclean. I guess anything from Old Dominion/Dolley Madison and Old Dominion/Kirby Street part of Mclean will end up going to Langley. Those are wealthier parts of Mclean. Mclean will end up with more kids from the Falls Church area because people can't afford Mclean zip code but some of the Falls Church places are zoned for Mclean HS.

The gap between the "have" and "have not" will be wider than ever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Strauss told McLean parents at a PTA meeting in 2015 that FCPS would build an addition at McLean before they’d move kids to Langley. But she was running for re-election then, so who knows what will happen now.

They need to balance those schools and move some of the lower income housing from the other schools to McLean so all of the schools are at comparable capacity.

No school in that part of fcps should be allowed to go to 75% ish capacity.

Langley, not Mclean.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Strauss told McLean parents at a PTA meeting in 2015 that FCPS would build an addition at McLean before they’d move kids to Langley. But she was running for re-election then, so who knows what will happen now.

They need to balance those schools and move some of the lower income housing from the other schools to McLean so all of the schools are at comparable capacity.

No school in that part of fcps should be allowed to go to 75% ish capacity.

I think you must mean Langley - it's the school with the most capacity and the least lower-income housing. McLean has the least capacity and Marshall has the most lower-income housing.

Yes, that is what I meant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Has anyone heard how FCPS plans to address the capacity imbalances at Langley, McLean and Marshall? The latest CIP has Langley at 82% of capacity next year, Marshall at 94%, and McLean at 118%. By 2023, they have Langley at 79%, Marshall at 100%, and McLean at 126%. Since the CIP doesn't commit to building an addition at McLean like they plan for Madison (even though Madison isn't projected to be as overcrowded as McLean), they must intend to change the boundaries. But they don't offer any details in the CIP as to how or when.

I know Janie Strauss is not running for re-election next year, so maybe she wants to hand this off to her successor. Have any of her possible successors weighed in on this?

If they are going to re-draw the boundary, it means that Langley will end up with kids from more affluent parts of Mclean. I guess anything from Old Dominion/Dolley Madison and Old Dominion/Kirby Street part of Mclean will end up going to Langley. Those are wealthier parts of Mclean. Mclean will end up with more kids from the Falls Church area because people can't afford Mclean zip code but some of the Falls Church places are zoned for Mclean HS.

The gap between the "have" and "have not" will be wider than ever.

. They could easily move the parts of Tysons that are currently in McLean’s district to Langley. That would add some diversity and draw the more affluent parts of McLean to Langley.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Has anyone heard how FCPS plans to address the capacity imbalances at Langley, McLean and Marshall? The latest CIP has Langley at 82% of capacity next year, Marshall at 94%, and McLean at 118%. By 2023, they have Langley at 79%, Marshall at 100%, and McLean at 126%. Since the CIP doesn't commit to building an addition at McLean like they plan for Madison (even though Madison isn't projected to be as overcrowded as McLean), they must intend to change the boundaries. But they don't offer any details in the CIP as to how or when.

I know Janie Strauss is not running for re-election next year, so maybe she wants to hand this off to her successor. Have any of her possible successors weighed in on this?

If they are going to re-draw the boundary, it means that Langley will end up with kids from more affluent parts of Mclean. I guess anything from Old Dominion/Dolley Madison and Old Dominion/Kirby Street part of Mclean will end up going to Langley. Those are wealthier parts of Mclean. Mclean will end up with more kids from the Falls Church area because people can't afford Mclean zip code but some of the Falls Church places are zoned for Mclean HS.

The gap between the "have" and "have not" will be wider than ever.

Not necessarily. FCPS can move some or all of Tysons (which splits to McLean and Marshall) to Langley instead.

[Anonymous]

Marshall has stopped pupil placements from other schools, so that may impact the potential growth of students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Marshall has stopped pupil placements from other schools, so that may impact the potential growth of students.

Yes, our principal has said he thinks we'll be down by about 100 students next year.

[Anonymous]

They should move at least a portion of Tysons to Langley.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They should move at least a portion of Tysons to Langley.

Agreed. The McLean attendance islands along Route 7 west of Tysons should be the most obvious to move to Langley.

On a side note, I am a Shrevewood parent and am thrilled to see that a boundary review and adjustment FINALLY made it into the CIP. We've been bursting at the seams for the past few years, and the current sixth grade is the last of the "smaller" class sizes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They should move at least a portion of Tysons to Langley.

Agreed. The McLean attendance islands along Route 7 west of Tysons should be the most obvious to move to Langley.

On a side note, I am a Shrevewood parent and am thrilled to see that a boundary review and adjustment FINALLY made it into the CIP. We've been bursting at the seams for the past few years, and the current sixth grade is the last of the "smaller" class sizes.

No, those can go to Madison, Langley needs to pick up some of Tysons both from McLean and Marshall. That is going to explode in 10 years.

They can pick up more when the planned new Western HS is built and it or Herndon can take the western portion of Langley’s current footprint.