Reply to Fall 2022 Over/Under-Enrollment at FCPS High Schools

Forum Index » Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS)

Reply to "Fall 2022 Over/Under-Enrollment at FCPS High Schools "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Looking at the McLean/Langley problem.
1. these schools were redistricted in 1984 and nothing has changed since that time, despite huge numbers of houses being built in the Tysons area that are all districted to Longfellow/McLean.
2. there are multiple neighborhoods in McLean that are much closer (even walkable) to Langley that continue to be sent to McLean - send those back to Langley
3. Great Falls needs its own high school.  The vast majority of kids at Langley live in GF (many drive more than 30 minutes to school).  Rather than expanding other schools there needs to be a 7-12 school that serves Great Falls.
[/quote]

Why should great falls get its own high school when that is one of the least crowded areas in the entire county?[/quote]

There were plans for a school but it wasn't limited to Great Falls.  Decades ago, maybe about the same time as Aldrin was built, there were plans.  Pre-Aldrin I think most of those students went to Forestville.  A secondary school was planned for the Baron Cameron site.  Later some thought there would be a North Reston area secondary school or co located MS-HS like Hughes-South Lakes or what now id South County MS-HS [didn't exist then].

So who did people think would go to that?  Old Forest Edge AAP assigned schools less schools in the town of Herndon limits.  Some schools were Lake Anne, Forest Edge, Aldrin, Armstrong, Forestville, Dranesville [non town], Great Falls.  I guess it would alo be parts of what now are Colvin Run which has weird boundaries.  [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics