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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not sure I agree, PP.  The Cooper kids at Kilmer are higher SES than the base population, so I don't see the Kilmer parents making a move to get them out because they are probably increasing the test scores, etc.  At Haycock, the Cluster 2 parents were lower SES.  I think that was part of the reason the base parents were happy to see them go.[/quote]

Wrong. The low SES kids at Haycock AAP/Longfellow/McLean are from Timber Lane (which will likely end up redistricted to Luther Jackson/Falls Church in the coming years.)[/quote]

I haven't seen any suggestion from FCPS that it plans to move the 1/2 of Timber Lane at Haycock AAP/Longfellow/McLean to Jackson/Falls Church.  The latest Capital Improvement Plan is full of hints as to future redistrictings that FCPS might decide to undertake, including:

- moving kids from Marshall/Kilmer and/or McLean/Longfellow (at Westbriar, Colvin Run and/or Spring Hill ES) to Cooper/Langley, 
- moving kids from Jackson and/or Kilmer to Thoreau, and 
- moving kids from Stuart to Falls Church.

But there's nothing about moving the Longfellow/McLean part of Timber Lane to Jackson/Falls Church.  Jackson is projected to be seriously overcrowded like Kilmer, and Falls Church may end up with a bunch of kids from Stuart if the enrollment in the Bailey's Crossroads area continues to grow at its current rate.  Not to mention that, if you take the 1/2 of Timber Lane out of Longfellow/McLean, there's not much SES diversity left.  The current boundaries, while odd-looking, are aligned with what many educators suggest works best - sending lower SES students to schools that are otherwise high SES (and, to be clear, it's just the apartment complexes off Lee Highway that are low SES; the rest of the Timber Lane area assigned to McLean consists of nice SFH homes in the $550-850K range).  I'm not sure why FCPS would mess with that.   [/quote]

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