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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The FBI relocation to Springfield is a long shot.[/quote]

I don't know about long shot.  Seems to me it has just a good a shot as the other locations being proposed.  Maybe it will happen, maybe it won't, but I wouldn't say long shot. [/quote]

Have you been down there lately???? The entire BRAC realignment (the 2005 BRAC law resulted in the transfer of more than 18,000 Department of Defense jobs to Fort Belvoir) has completely transformed the landscape.  The secret CIA location no longer exists and now hosts the new buidlings and businesses that serve the Dept Defense.  Some of the homes surrounding neighborhoods are selling in 24 hours at competitive prices.

Lee was an excellent school back in the 80s.  It rivaled West Springfield HS and actually many W.Spring. neighborhoods were redistricted to Lee.  The sports teams were VA State Champions.  Boys and Girls won VA State Soccer the same year.

Then- in the 90s the area around the Mall fell to crap.  The school got bad.  The population attending changed. [b] I have heard it is completely back at the upswing and have a revival of sorts---primarily due to the revilitization due to BRAC.[/b][/quote]

Sorry , not yet. It's going to take a decade at least after the rebuild of that area.[/quote]

But, if you are a young couple like me and my wife with young children or children on the way, these might be reasons to seriously consider purchasing in the Lee pyramid.  You will get a discount on your housing prices now, and, if things do turn around and the schools zoned for Lee become more desirable, then you could profit from it.  We bought in Saratoga last year and, while we did hesitate because of the reputation of the Lee pyramid, but we feel very good so far about our decision.  Of course, I suppose time will tell. [/quote]

I do believe that the property values in Springfield will increase long-term and that time will tell about Lee high school. But do you mean you bought in a neighborhood zoned for Saratoga elementary? That's one of the worst ones in the area from what I've heard. They aren't Title I but have a high FARMS and high ESOL rate. We've seen some good values in the area and it's convenient for us but are very hesitant on the elementary situation.[/quote]

Last I checked the FARMS rate was around 40% and ESL might have been about 22%.  Those numbers don't really worry me.  It's diverse, but I don't see any reason why a school with those numbers can't properly educate the non-FARM, non-ESL students. What have you heard about it being a bad school?  I haven't really heard anything negative from anyone who actually has children that attend the school. [/quote]

Those are about the current numbers for Saratoga.  They also show that the idea that there's some 1-to-1 correlation between FARMS and ESOL in NoVa is incorrect. [/quote]

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