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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All the new housing getting built in Tysons currently feeds into Marshall and McLean.

Marshall's enrollment is up 38 kids since the school year began.  McLean is up 27 kids.  Langley's enrollment hasn't increased at all from September 2021 to April 2022.

If they don't reassign this new housing project off Spring Hill Road to under-enrolled Langley, Jason Miyares should open an investigation into the School Board's neglect of duty.  [/quote]

If nothing happened when millions were spent expanded West Potomac even though Mt. Vernon had space, I doubt the Langley boundary will warrant much attention.

Besides, 46 has promise us food shortages and inflation shows no sign of stopping.  I’ll bet that the percentage of Langley-boundaried children that goes to private school decreases next year and the year after.  A bad economy is great for public school enrollment. [/quote]

I doubt the private school enrollment decreases, but I doubt the school board will be too interested in dealing with anymore boundary adjustments in that area for a while. Your example of west Potomac was spot on. [/quote]

You could argue it’s an opportunity for the SB members to try and redeem themselves.  Of course, it may be too late for some, given how little support they have left.[/quote]

Picking boundary fights may "redeem" SB members in the eyes of a select few, but politically-speaking its the easiest way to lose an election.  The fact of the matter is that most people could not care less about boundaries until and unless it directly impacts them.  Boundary fights will almost always lose you more votes than they gain.[/quote]

That might be the case if you're talking about reassigning kids from an existing development to a new, lower-ranked school.

There is little downside from reassigning some apartments from Marshall to Langley, especially when most of the apartments will be new construction where kids never attended Marshall.  On the other hand, it might indicate that the School Board isn't completely full of crap when it talks about equity all the time but leaves Langley renovated, under capacity, and without any lower or moderate-income housing.  That might stem some of the losses they are looking at next year.  There are already going to be quite a few voters who usually vote Democratic breaking ranks next year for reasons unrelated to boundaries. [/quote]

You are not thinking about the big picture. You for some reason just care about Langley.  What about elementary and middle schools?[/quote]

I care more about Marshall than Langley.  Langley is the only HS school in the area with space and an adjacent boundary.

As for the ES/MS, Cooper has fewer kids and is less crowded than Kilmer.  The ES might be a bit trickier.  If the area was moved from Westbriar (Marshall pyramid) to Spring Hill (Langley pyramid) some other Spring Hill areas might need to be reassigned to Westgate (split feeder to Marshall/McLean).

Quite honestly, it's disgusting how some Langley folks constantly look for reasons to raise objections when they have a renovated, under-enrolled school and other schools are near or over capacity.  But moving these developments could also allow Langley families who would like IB for their kids to send them to Marshall again. [/quote]

Marshall is under capacity and is not projected by FCPS to exceed capacity over the next 5 years.[/quote]

Marshall was overcrowded.  GCM reduced its enrollment by halting transfers from other schools for IB, which defeats the purpose of multiple academic programs and pupil placement regulations.  If you look at other FCPS information, the planned and approved developments in the Marshall district could add another 661 students to the school in the coming years (for Langley, the comparable number is only 11 students).

https://www.fcps.edu/about-fcps/planning-future/development-review-and-proffer-processes

This should be an easy and obvious response to the continued development in Tysons. [/quote]

The FCPS utilization projections take into account planned development. So even accounting for all that development, Marshall is still projected to be below capacity 5 years out.

I couldn’t care less about the boundaries. I’m not a Langley parent. The “I care more about Marshall” argument fails in light of the data (unless your real concern is the same one that you are projecting to Langley … you don’t want more FARMS students at Marshall). From a capacity standpoint, there is no projected overcrowding issue at Marshall.

For IB, there are many other FCPS high schools that offer the program, so not sure why it’s really relevant that Marshall was closed to IB transfers. If you live out of boundary, that’s a risk you take. [/quote]

The FCPS enrollment projections only take into account new development when the developer has broken ground. They don’t include planned or even approved projects when the construction has not yet started.  FCPS knows the current methodology is short-sighted and incomplete and will acknowledge this if you bother to ask.

So, no, the enrollment projections for Marshall do not take into account all of the planned developments within the school’s current boundaries. You are simply wrong.

As for Marshall closing to pupil placements, the fact is that it’s an IB school surrounded by AP schools, and many students at Langley, McLean, Madison, and Falls Church now have to travel considerably further for IB if Marshall is not an option. Conversely, there are no students at IB schools for whom Langley is the closest AP school in terms of distance.  It’s true you always take a risk that a school may be closed to pupil placements, but that’s not a good argument against providing students with additional options when it’s feasible to do so.

You apparently just want to keep a certain demographic out of Langley, as a matter of principle (most likely because you see it as a harbinger of larger boundary changes).  But in this case it just makes obvious sense from a logistical perspective to use the available capacity there, when the future potential increase in students in the Langley district is nowhere near the potential influx of students to Marshall.

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