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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I could see them moving the Westbriar island to Langley, especially if the Tysons apartments start throwing more kids to Westbriar. I haven't heard if development has made a big difference in enrollment there, but I know it was a concern at one point. [/quote]

How long would that bus ride be? [/quote]

Shorter than the Great Falls drives I assume[/quote]

Just about anything is shorter than the drive from western Great Falls to Langley.  It's a shame the school isn't more centrally located.  [/quote]

The school isn't going anywhere. It was just renovated. The boundaries will go somewhere new.[/quote]

Obviously.  Given its boundaries, though, it’s too bad it’s not closer to Grest Falls Village.  That would make life much easier for the kids who have to schlep there from the western part of the county.[/quote]

Don't worry. Soon they'll be schlepping to Herndon High. I'm guessing this has been expedited as a result of their argument on closing an access point to 495.[/quote]

Wow, that's really some wishful thinking on your part!   :lol: [/quote]  Not really.  Herndon is the logical HS for that part of the county.  When the planned Western HS gets built.  It will happen as Herndon will have room from the students moved to the new HS.  It is something that has been known since the western HS has been on the table. That would free up more space for Langley to pick up more of the Tysons overflow that inevitably will come.  Eventually the same thing will happen on the other side of Tysons. I foresee Falls Church HS and Madison pulling from Marshall to free up space there.

The projected increase in population in Tysons is 100k people. Tysons will have a much lower % of HS in the pop, there will still be some.  Even if it is 1/3 the rate of the rest of the county it would be still is enough for one entire HS.  No new HS is slated to be built.  All nearby HS will be affected.  [/quote]

Did you see the last cip report? The planning for the new western hs will start in fy2026 and the permitting in fy2028. The construction will take another five years or so. [/quote]

How many Herndon HS students would actually move to the new school?  I would assume all town of Herndon students would stay at Herndon High (like town of Vienna at Madison).  The students north of the town of Herndon and in Reston zoned for Herndon HS also probably wouldn't move, as those areas aren't really where a new school is needed or likely to be built.  That leaves the area immediately around Hutchison ES that is not in the town of Herndon, and that's about it.  But that wouldn't take all that many students out of Herndon High.  I don't see how many students would be moving out of Herndon High and creating room for students from Langley.[/quote]

Not the poster to whom you're responding, but there's only one high school in FCPS that has to take kids from a specific jurisdiction.  That's Fairfax HS, which all City of Fairfax students must attend.  Clifton, Herndon, and Vienna are towns.  They don't own schools, and town residents have no right to stay at their current high schools (Clifton - Robinson; Herndon - Herndon; and Vienna - Madison).  Part of the Town of Vienna, for example, went to Oakton at one point.

But I think you're right that the new western HS might only draw from one Herndon feeder.  It could also draw from current feeders to Westfield, Oakton, Chantilly and possibly South Lakes.  That could open up space at Herndon for Forestville students who currently go to Langley.  That is many years away and not part of any solution to the immediate problem of Langley's declining enrollment and overcrowding at McLean.   [/quote]

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