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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]FCPS likes to build/renovate for a 50-year span.  McLean HS was built in 1955 and renovated in 2005.  The place was a dump in the '80s, yet they waited until 2005 to renovate.  Longfellow was built in 1960 and renovated around 2010.  Langley was built in 1965 and renovated in 2018.  Cooper was built in 1962 and is currently under renovation.  
McLean is LOW on the priority list for renovation.  
Overcrowding at Longfellow and McLean is becoming a bigger issue as more housing gets added in the Tyson's area.  We need to build more schools but it's not likely to happen.[/quote]

McLean’s 2005 “renovation” was not a renovation as defined now. They added a new entrance and made a few other minor changes. It was nothing like Marshall. Langley, Madison…[/quote]

McLean’s renovation in 2005 was more elaborate than this, but certainly not as extensive as the renovations of Langley and Marshall a decade later.

Madison’s renovation in the early 2000s was no more elaborate than McLean’s; however, FCPS recently built an addition to Madison.  On paper, it certainly looked like McLean needed an addition more than Madison, but perhaps if Marshall gets a lot more kids from Tysons they will end up reassigning the Marshall neighborhoods in western Vienna to Madison.

There was a fair amount of advocacy from McLean parents @ 2019 for a redistricting and addition.  That resulted in a limited boundary change with Langley in 2021 and a 12-classroom modular rather than a permanent addition.  People really aren’t expecting FCPS to do anything major for the school any time soon (the possible future boundary change with Falls Church is a bit of a wild card), but they still love the school.  [/quote]

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