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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How is an accuracy rate in the 90's for the vast majority of schools "unapologectically" inaccurate?  Surely, you don't expect 100%?[/quote]

Don't be dense. A 5-year old can project out 9 months. The School Board makes its decisions based on the out-year projections, and those fall considerably short of anything approaching reliable.[/quote]

With the hi mobility rates of the county it makes it that much more difficult.  I think they do a credible job.  Projections are [i]never[/i] 100% accurate, and expecting them to do so is ridiculous.  The high 90%s are reliable enough.  They show trends.  Just accept the fact that Langley and Cooper will have to expand their borders and Cooper will have to accept is own AAP students that currently already live [i]within[/i] its borders.  [/quote]

DP here.  Why should Cooper and Langley boundaries be expanded again when they are already by far the largest in the county?  Some schools have to be the smallest in the county.  Why does Langley always get to stay out of boundary studies when that might mean sending Langley kids to other schools, or hand-pick other high-income neighborhoods when FCPS decides Langley is too small?   Langley always benefits at the expense of everyone else in the county.

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Cooper and Langley's boundaries can easily be expanded to include areas that are closer to Langley than the vast majority of its current area (near McLean Center and Tyson's/Rte 7).  The additional footprint would be small, but in a more population dense area. If sidewalks/ and a crossing bridge over 123 were built, some would be able to walk to Langley, they are so close. The reason Langley has such a large area is because the houses are on MUCH larger lots than the rest of the county AND more people send their children to public school and there is a National Park and several county parks the middle of it.  If McLean and Marshall continue to grow like they have been, then the boundaries will probable change at both ends (more going to Langley AND more going to Falls Church).  [/quote]

I think you mean more people in the Langley district send their kids to private schools, yes?

Marshall has been growing quickly but is still one of the smaller schools in the county.  The enrollment at McLean has actually gone down by about 40 students since 2012, and at 2050 students it's in the bottom half of FCPS high schools in terms of enrollment.  Why FCPS would rush to move kids to another school with a similar enrollment (Langley, with about 2000 kids) is beyond me, unless Facilities wants to justify the decision to expand Langley's capacity as part of its current renovation.  At this point, it remains to be seen whether the various plans for Tysons will really translate into a lot more HS-age students.

As for Falls Church, I expect FCPS would consider moving kids from Stuart to Falls Church once the cohort of kids crowding schools like Bailey's and Glen Forest ES hits HS age.  If it moves kids from Marshall or McLean to Falls Church, it takes that option off the table.

In comparison, it seems like the need to address some of the capacity issues in the western part of the county is immediate and more pressing, so one would hope this received more attention. [/quote]

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