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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some of the FPAC recommendations involve Langley and McLean.

If you went back five years, you'd see that FCPS significantly under-estimated what the 2013 enrollment would be at McLean and Marshall, and significantly over-estimated the 2013 enrollment at Langley.  Now FCPS has swung completely to the opposite extreme, with projections that suggest that Langley will hemorrage students, even though the enrollment there is up this year over last year, and McLean will have over 2500 students in a few years, which is highly unlikely.

On that basis, FPAC proposes to move single-family neighborhoods in the McLean district to Langley, on the pretext of eliminating an attendance island, even though (1) the students who would be affected live closer to McLean than Langley, and (2) Langley would keep gobbing up stable, single-family neighborhoods zoned for other schools, just as it did previously with Herndon.

I don't think they really have a clue, and simply are looking for ways to fill Langley up with students to justify the expansion of the school's capacity as part of the renovation.   Notably, the senior position in the department within FCPS responsible for projections and planning has now been vacant for some time.  [/quote]

Thanks for the info - tracking this in our neck of the woods is hard enough without trying to pin down what they've screwed up for other areas. It's particularly disconcerting given the massive boundary recommendations facilities has proposed, based solely off of projections that have a track record of being wildly inaccurate.[/quote]

I'm surprised it took to page three of this thread for the conversation to turn to Langley and McLean.  [/quote]

Maybe create a s/o thread?[/quote]

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