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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]More like some posters on DCUM think that Langley, a school that is NOT overcrowded, should include some surrounding high-density apartment complexes into it's catchment area to provide relief to Herndon and McLean which ARE over capacity. Please tell me how that doesn't make sense.[/quote]

I agree about the relief to McLean--but where are the high-density apartment in Herndon that are in the surrounding area to Langley?  Didn't they take some kids from McLean?  That makes sense since they are close to one another, but I don't know the neighborhoods/feeder schools.
I don't see where you could get students from Herndon, though.  It's a fairly compact boundary.
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Langley picked up some neighborhoods from McLean, but they are all built-out single-family neighborhoods in Vienna with no further development planned.  Langley, or at least Great Falls, didn't want any of the existing and planned high-density apartment complexes in Tysons/McLean, for fear they would overcrowd Langley and lead Langley kids to get moved to Herndon.  So McLean has to put up to continued overcrowding to humor the Great Falls parents and residents who prefer Langley to remain under-capacity.  That's how the three schools remain joined at the hip, at least for now.

If FCPS ever decides to move high-density housing to Langley, the obvious choice would be to move part of Tysons or Reston to Langley, not Herndon, as Herndon's current boundaries are relatively compact.  Those areas would still be closer to Langley than current Langley neighborhoods in western Great Falls.  And, of course, depending on whether and where a new western high school gets built, they might decide to move part of western Great Falls to Herndon if part of Herndon were moving to a new school. 
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