which HS (Oakton, Madison, Mclean) our family should choose

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would say McLean pyramid, but the school system has neglected all the buildings, and everything is overcrowded. The irony is that the county focuses on making the poorly performing school look nice and expanding by neglecting the better and the wealthier schools to support equity. We plan to go private. The only reasonable option is Langley high pyramids if you don't mind being that far out. Everything else is a 3rd world dump, either the student body at the poorly performing schools or the buildings of the highly performing schools.

+1.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Really appreciate all the inputs!
I added Woodson and Chantilly to my list but has some concern about the size of the high school. I do see a lot trailer classrooms from map. Mclean will be a stretch for me even I am going to buy a townhome there. The housing px is crazy! Oakton does seem to have a good balance of everything: new facility, diversity, expensive but not super crazy home px.

Tear down houses go for $1m+ in McLean.

But there are also McLean-zoned houses under $1M that are not tear downs. There just aren’t as many of them as in some areas and they go quickly if they are in decent shape.

Really?
Recently sold single family homes in McLean:
https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-search/McLean_VA/type-single-family-home/show-recently-sold

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Really appreciate all the inputs!
I added Woodson and Chantilly to my list but has some concern about the size of the high school. I do see a lot trailer classrooms from map. Mclean will be a stretch for me even I am going to buy a townhome there. The housing px is crazy! Oakton does seem to have a good balance of everything: new facility, diversity, expensive but not super crazy home px.

Tear down houses go for $1m+ in McLean.

But there are also McLean-zoned houses under $1M that are not tear downs. There just aren’t as many of them as in some areas and they go quickly if they are in decent shape.

Really?
Recently sold single family homes in McLean:
https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-search/McLean_VA/type-single-family-home/show-recently-sold

This is a search of houses in McLean. There are also houses zoned to McLean in Falls Church.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would say McLean pyramid, but the school system has neglected all the buildings, and everything is overcrowded. The irony is that the county focuses on making the poorly performing school look nice and expanding by neglecting the better and the wealthier schools to support equity. We plan to go private. The only reasonable option is Langley high pyramids if you don't mind being that far out. Everything else is a 3rd world dump, either the student body at the poorly performing schools or the buildings of the highly performing schools.

+1.

The post to which you responded was horseshit. McLean could benefit from an addition and renovation but the school is great and the notion that FCPS is either high-performing dumps or renovated low-performing schools is contradicted by relatively recent renovations of schools in high-performing pyramids (for example, Longfellow MS, Langley HS, Oakton HS, Thoreau MS, and now Cooper MS).

If you want to make the case that McLean deserves an upgrade you can make that argument. Or if you want to steer people away from McLean to your school and want to harp on McLean’s facilities, go for it. But stop trotting out the conspiracy agenda because it’s just silly.

[Anonymous]

Of the schools mentioned, percent Asian as reported by FCPS profiles:
Chantilly, 38%
Fairfax, 23%
Langley, 28%
Madison, 15%
Mclean, 26%
Oakton. 31%
Woodson, 26%

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Of the schools mentioned, percent Asian as reported by FCPS profiles:
Chantilly, 38%
Fairfax, 23%
Langley, 28%
Madison, 15%
Mclean, 26%
Oakton. 31%
Woodson, 26%

OP, what type of Asian are you?

I know Chantilly has many South Asians like Indians. McLean has more East Asians like Chinese and Koreans.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Of the schools mentioned, percent Asian as reported by FCPS profiles:
Chantilly, 38%
Fairfax, 23%
Langley, 28%
Madison, 15%
Mclean, 26%
Oakton. 31%
Woodson, 26%

OP, what type of Asian are you?

I know Chantilly has many South Asians like Indians. McLean has more East Asians like Chinese and Koreans.

I can only speak for my neighborhood which feeds to Chantilly. There are lots of East Asians in my neighborhood as well as South Asians. Chinese, Korean, Indian, and more.

[Anonymous]

Hey OP, I haven't read the whole thread, but we are an Asian family living in Herndon zoned for Crossfield/Carson/Oakton - our ES is 30% Asian.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Really appreciate all the inputs!
I added Woodson and Chantilly to my list but has some concern about the size of the high school. I do see a lot trailer classrooms from map. Mclean will be a stretch for me even I am going to buy a townhome there. The housing px is crazy! Oakton does seem to have a good balance of everything: new facility, diversity, expensive but not super crazy home px.

Tear down houses go for $1m+ in McLean.

But there are also McLean-zoned houses under $1M that are not tear downs. There just aren’t as many of them as in some areas and they go quickly if they are in decent shape.

Really?
Recently sold single family homes in McLean:
https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-search/McLean_VA/type-single-family-home/show-recently-sold

This is a search of houses in McLean. There are also houses zoned to McLean in Falls Church.

And most of those are going for over a million. Even the ones that go to Timberlane.

[Anonymous]

We are east Asians. I don't think that race distribution really matters too much for us. We just want to stay in a district we can comfortably afford(we do have a large family), and also we don't want to be an outlier(we used to live in the only townhome in a very rich suburb in NYC many years ago and we did not have good experience and decided to move out quick).

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Of the schools mentioned, percent Asian as reported by FCPS profiles:
Chantilly, 38%
Fairfax, 23%
Langley, 28%
Madison, 15%
Mclean, 26%
Oakton. 31%
Woodson, 26%

OP, what type of Asian are you?

I know Chantilly has many South Asians like Indians. McLean has more East Asians like Chinese and Koreans.

[Anonymous]

To meet your budget you need to look at Chantilly/Centerville or Herndon area that feeds into Oakton. Even that is a stretch for a family of 6.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To meet your budget you need to look at Chantilly/Centerville or Herndon area that feeds into Oakton. Even that is a stretch for a family of 6.

If OP isn’t careful they’ll end up with a nasty commute from Herndon to Oakton HS (heading east with the AM rush and heading west back to Herndon from Oakton with the early PM traffic). Chantilly or Woodson might be easier.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Being close to an indoor Rec center is also nice.

NP. Which rec center/school zone would this be?

[Anonymous]

OP, can you increase your budget? I know higher interest rates probably lowered your budget.

I had a friend move to NOVA a few years ago with a 800-900k budget. They ended up getting a brand new townhouse in Ashburn. Her budget was getting her old houses she did not want to live in in any decent neighborhood in FCPS. I think she was looking at Vienna and Oakton and got priced out. Then she looked at Fairfax and ultimately chose Ashburn. Home prices have gone up substantially since she moved here before 2020.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Being close to an indoor Rec center is also nice.

NP. Which rec center/school zone would this be?

Spring Hill in McLean/ Langley, Oak Marr by Vienna/ Oakton, Providence by Falls Church, Cub Run in Chantilly