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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just make sure you don't buy in the Herndon area currently zoned to Langley, or Dranesville or pretty much any area zoned to Forestville Elementary if you want to be safe.  Otherwise your kindergartner and possibly your 5th grader will be going to Herndon and not Langley one day.[/quote]

According to the proposed boundary maps - all options leave GF alone. There a few Great Falls areas already zone to Herndon High and a few Herndon/Reston areas zoned to Langley. 
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What parts of Great Falls are already zoned to Herndon?  I don't see any.  Dranesville isn't Great Falls.  It's adjacent, but a separate location.
  
So yeah, the current changes leave GF and Dranesville and the other Herndon addresses that currently go to Langley alone.  However it also moves more students into Langley from McLean and puts Langley over 100%.  It's a desirable area, and that percentage won't go down no matter how much some people seem to convince themselves it will.  As Tysons and the surrounding area grows there will be more pressure to reassign the far western part of the Langley boundary to the much closer Herndon High School.  I was just trying to warn the OP who is thinking of moving here specifically for Langley that this is an issue they need to take into account, especially with a kindergartner who won't be in high school until after at least one more boundary review cycle.[/quote]
Do you mean Dranesville Rd isn’t Great Falls? Because the much of the old village of Dranesville is certainly in Great Falls.[/quote]

DP.  There's the Dranesville magisterial district, which includes both Great Falls and Herndon.  There's also part of the old village of Dranesville that's now considered Great Falls.  On the other hand, Dranesville ES is in the Herndon HS pyramid and the 20170 zip code, which has a Herndon mailing address, is sometimes referred to as Dranesville.

PP is right that part of Langley eventually may get moved to Herndon now that they've moved a growing section of Tysons to Langley.  The Great Falls citizens group fought against that in 2021, but they didn't put up much of a fight in the just-completed boundary review.  It was clear the local School Board member elected in 2023 supported moving part of Tysons to Langley to eliminate a "split feeder" at Spring Hill ES.  The Great Falls group sent a letter to FCPS saying they'd oppose any further boundary changes in the future, but if Langley is over 105% capacity in 2030 there could be a Langley-to-Herndon move. On the other hand, Langley had been accepting over 100 pupil placements for AP and foreign language, and they can regain capacity by shutting down that pipeline (that's happening already with FCPS announcing this year that it will no longer accept student transfers for a foreign language not offered at a student's base school). [/quote]

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