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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why are people always complaining about the lack of FARMS at Langley? The school is literally surrounded by multi million dollar houses. We live in a $3m house down the road. Our house is quite average in the area.

Where would these low income people come from?

Even the dilapidated knock down houses go for 800k.

That being said, not everyone is rich. Plenty of middle class families. Just not low income free lunch kids.[/quote]

How do you think it got that way? Rich people have advocated for decades to keep water/sewer out, large lots, no density, school boundary for just the wealthy large lots, etc. There is a reason why Great Falls Village is called a village and has little density.[/quote]

The Langley boundaries definitely have some quirks.

Everything north of 123 from Arlington to the Dulles Toll Road is zoned for Langley, except for one area of more modest homes that is assigned to McLean.  As it turns out, the biggest plot of land in that area is now being developed with houses that cost over $2.0 million.  Maybe Langley will take it back now.

Also, everything on the north side of Leesburg Pike past the intersection of Leesburg Pike and the Toll Road all the way to the Loudoun border is zoned for Langley, except there are some random areas in Vienna, Reston, and Herndon on the south side of Route 7 zoned for Langley.  Those areas are neighborhoods of single-family houses that got a School Board member to redistrict them to Langley decades ago.

In any event, such large boundaries have led to long commutes to Cooper and Langley for students living in Great Falls.  The boundaries could have been more compact, and pulled in more neighborhoods from Vienna and Reston, but FCPS kept Great Falls zoned to Langley even as it was building new schools in the western part of the county.

With the complaints about the Beltway traffic near Cooper, the growing enrollments at McLean and Marshall, and the long-term plans to build a new high school in western Fairfax, the boundaries will change.  What remains to be determined is when and how.  [/quote]

There are plenty of houses zoned for McLean high over $2m. We looked at several of them before buying a house in the Langley pyramid.[/quote]

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