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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you look on a map, this school is closest to Marshall.  Why wouldn't the obvious answer be to expand Marshall?  I don't understand why this is a hot button issue at all.[/quote]

Because Langley is below capacity, and has consistently been below capacity. Unless there is large-scale planned construction in Langley's boundaries, there should be an evaluation of how to get Langley to capacity before new housing automatically zones to schools at capacity.[/quote]

We are going in circles.  The FCPS projections show that Langley will be at 96% capacity by 2026-27.  By comparision, Marshall is projected to be at 92% (or 98% excluding the modular addition) and Madison is projected to be at 82%.  The capacity metric doesn't support the argument.[/quote]

We are going in circles, because you ignore the fact that FCPS's official projections don't take new housing into account until a developer has physically started construction, even if a development has been approved.  However, the data available to the county reflects a potential increase of 661 high school students within the Marshall pyramid and only 4 high school students within the Langley pyramid.

The data is available here:  https://www.fcps.edu/about-fcps/planning-future/development-review-and-proffer-processes ("Residential Development Applications Dashboard").

Further, the comparisons of capacity should be made without regard to modulars, as trailers and modulars are inferior space to permanent classroom seats.[/quote]

The issue isn't Marshall.  It's Madison, which has the most projected capacity (and I'm not aware of any such development planned in the Madison pyramid).  [/quote]

At present, there isn't much additional planned development in the Madison district.  However, Madison may need to accommodate areas to the west given the overcrowding in some of those areas.  And, as noted, reassigning Marshall-zoned neighborhoods in the Vienna "panhandle" to Madison would have a major impact on Marshall's demographics.  Is your goal to turn Marshall into Tysons South HS with a 30% FARMS rate?  If so, keep pushing this alternative.  [/quote]

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