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We considered Shouse Village when we were looking, but it's a school attendance island -- look at the boundary maps. The bus ride to Longfellow was long, and other less desirable schools were nearer geographically. We were worried about possible redistricting away from Longfellow/McLean so shied away from it.[/quote]

Not sure what schools you're talking about.  The other middle/high school combinations serving nearby areas are Cooper/Langley, Kilmer/Marshall and Hughes/South Lakes.  FCPS has suggested in its latest Capital Improvement Plan it might consider moving the part of Colvin Run that feeds into Longfellow/McLean to Cooper/Langley, but that was based on projections (as to future declines in the Cooper/Langley enrollments and increases in the Longfellow/McLean enrollments) that people who live in the Cooper/Langley district recently asserted were flawed.

Without clear indications of significant overcrowding at Longfellow/McLean due to Tysons growth, I doubt FCPS would change the Shouse Village boundaries.  The SV area is part of an attendance island (created when FCPS administratively assigned a new apartment complex in Tysons to Kilmer/Marshall years ago), but kids from that area are actively involved in Longfellow/McLean activities, and I think Longfellow/McLean parents would object if the School Board grabbed additional SFH neighborhoods for Langley without a compelling reason to do so.   As for Kilmer/Marshall and Hughes/South Lakes, those schools have growing enrollments, so it's hard to see why FCPS would move SV students to those schools.  [/quote]

It's very clear that this island will become part of Marshall, South Lakes, or Langley in the near future.  Not saying that this change is a bad thing, but ll one needs to do is simply look at a map.  It logistically makes sense for FCPS.[/quote]

Nope.  Many current boundaries would be quite different if FCPS simply did what "logistically makes sense" or "looked at a map."  Keep in mind that FCPS has permitted students who live close to the Loudoun border to attend Langley for decades, even though they are closer to Herndon, South Lakes, and other schools.  That makes little sense from a logistical perspective. FCPS also created a "Woodson island" in the middle of the Robinson attendance area that has been around for years (although this one may get eliminated shortly as part of the Lanier/Fairfax redistricting).

The McLean island will only get moved if current projections hold true and the enrollments at Cooper and Langley start to decline substantially.  Otherwise, the forces of inertia are too great to precipitate a change.  [/quote]

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