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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How do the sizes of the schools and properties match up now?[/quote]

FCPS uses two measures to assess capacity - design capacity and program capacity.  Design capacity is the maximum number of students the building is planned to hold; program capacity is lower because it takes into account programs that take up extra space.  FCPS calculates whether a school is above or below capacity based on the ratio of students to the program capacity.

For the current school year:

Langley has a design capacity of 2370, a program capacity of 2353, and 1923 kids.

McLean has a design capacity of 1993, a program capacity of 1982, and 2255 kids.

Marshall has a design capacity of 2334, nd program capacity of 2332, and 2224 kids.

McLean has the smallest acreage of the three schools, but more land than Justice and Madison, each of which FCPS plans to expand in the next few years (to accommodate 2400 students in Madison's case and 2500 students in Justice's case).   The fact that FCPS plans to expand Madison, but not McLean, when FCPS is projecting more kids by 2023-24 at McLean than Madison (2505 vs. 2318) appears to suggest they intend to move kids to Langley, whose enrollment is projected to decline to 1861 kids by 2023-24.  But FCPS is not being very open as to their plans. [/quote]

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