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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]why do you think enrollment will shrink?  The new Supervisor is preparing for an enormous increase in population due to the explosion of Tysons, the dulles Hi Tech corridor, and the jobs that GMU is spinning off.  I've never heard of anyone saying enrollment will shrink . . . [/quote]

The projections for reduced enrollment in the Langley pyramid are in the latest Capital Improvement Plan.

http://www.fcps.edu/fts/planning/cip/cipbook2014-18.pdf

Spring Hill, near Tysons, is expected to gain students by 2017.  Every other school in the pyramid is expected to lose students. Langley is projected to be under 1,800 students by 2017.  The projections may be wrong; FCPS projections often are.  But what the FCPS planners are seeing is that fewer people with school-age children want to live, or can afford to live, in western McLean and Great Falls.  If the projections are right, FCPS will have to decide whether to operate those schools as smaller schools or redistrict.

This doesn't reflect adversely on the quality of the education at those schools, and some people would like their kids to attend schools with fewer students (which is different from schools with smaller classrooms).  But it's not the case that people have been so eager to send their kids to Langley in recent years that they've filled it with anywhere close to 2400 students.

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