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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's been like that for at least 13 Years and and will only change minimally if a new Western HS is built 20 Years from now. So basically not changing for the next 50 Years. [/quote]

I wouldn't be so sure. Look at what's happening with demographics in the recent decade. We basically have a split county: Majority white vs. majority Hispanic schools. Wealthy vs. poor. Good vs. bad. FCPS has trudged along until now but the disparity and concentrated % of wealth and poverty gets more disproportional every year. I can't see FCPS letting another 20 years go by without intervention if they want to remain an attractive system. Otherwise they'll resemble every other failing metro area school system like Miami-Dade and Chicago. [/quote]

There are only three majority white high schools left in FCPS out of 25 - Madison, Robinson, and Langley. Langley will also probably be majority minority within the next five years given its growing Asian population.

The divide is more along economic than racial lines, but it’s largely a function of existing housing patterns.  It’s more likely the county will change housing and zoning policy than deliberately change school boundaries to alter school demographics. The one constant is that Langley will always emerge untouched.  [/quote]

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