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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't understand why the redistricting isn't a top priority in that case, like Kent Gardens was.  You could easily move kids into Marshall or Langley from the outer boundaries of Mclean and that could bring down the number of students to closer to the capacity threshold at Mclean and bring up the numbers at Marshall and Langley, which both had expansive extensions.  Langley looks like a private school campus now.  So, what is taking the Board so damn long to do the redistricting for Mclean.  I'm sure tons of kids would opt into Langley, if given the choice.[/quote]

Marshall is basically at capacity.  Langley is the option.

And regarding a PP with the Timber Lane split, I just can't see that happening given the demographics.[/quote]

If I was in-bounds for Timber Lane - Longfellow - McLean, I would raise absolute hell if redistricted to Timber Lane - Luther Jackson - Falls Church. That would shave at least $100k off the value of every SFH in that area and get rid of most of the diversity that feeds into McLean. Moving some of McLean to Langley is much more "like to like."[/quote]

You say that as if they hadn't already moved kids from McLean to Langley.

That already happened, so we've seen that movie.  FCPS staff wanted Langley to take part of growing Tysons, and the GFCA fought back and got Elaine Tholen and the School Board to move only a limited number of already built-out single-family neighborhoods in Vienna instead.

Langley is closer to full capacity now than it was in 2021, so if they move more of McLean to Langley it's more likely that they'll decide they have to bump Great Falls to Herndon.  Maybe that's what the new School Board wants, but it's not going to happen without the GFCA getting even more mobilized than they did before.

On the other hand, Timber Lane is already a split feeder to McLean and Falls Church, and Falls Church HS is clearly going to have hundreds of available seats when its renovation is finished.  Some people would object, as is the case with any boundary change, but FCPS could take credit for eliminating an attendance island (the area is completely contiguous to Falls Church's current northern boundary) and also point out that the renovated Falls Church HS will have a much nicer building than McLean.  And this only involves two schools, whereas the McLean to Langley to Herndon scenario involves three.

Otherwise, it's not clear why they are bothering to expand Falls Church to 2500 during its renovation.  In theory, they could have decided to expand Falls Church with a view towards re-assigning part of Justice, which had been getting crowded, to Falls Church.  However, it appears they recognized that moving the Justice neighborhoods closest to Falls Church there would drive up the FARMS rate at Justice, so they just decided to build an addition to Justice as well.  [/quote]

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