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This is not going to change going forward because the high density housing that feeds into FCHS will not go away (nor should it). 
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Really? I live near seven corners, and I would love nothing more than to see all the tenement-style dwellings in SC razed, and have something better built in their place.

I don't think the route 50 garden apartments are as bad as seven corners/bailey's crossroads, though. [/quote]

I go into a lot of these apts as part of my work.  The complexes just west of Graham Road on both sides of Rt. 50 are absolutely luxurious compared to Culmore.  Seven Corners is a mixed bag, some are really bad and some are OK.  Culmore though is uniformly awful.[/quote]

Same PP here.  To tie this back into the discussion of schools: The LL's in Culmore turn a blind eye to overcrowding to a much greater extent than perhaps anywhere else in Ffx Co.  This means that an equal number of units will hold a much greater number of kids.  So, this affects Stuart much more than Falls Church.

The "bad neighborhoods" feeding into Stuart are the Culmore apartments, which will never ever be good, not in a million years.  The "bad neighborhoods" feeding into Falls Church consist in large parts of junky SFH's, which are, little by little, being upgraded and gentrified.  So I see Falls Church slowly getting better while Stuart stagnates.[/quote]

I think the short to intermediate prospects for both Falls Church and Stuart are mixed (could go either way), and the prospects for Annandale are negative.

As you say, FC has fewer awful apartments than Stuart, but the school is in crappy shape and FCPS did a demographic hatchet job on Poe, one of its two MS feeders to FC.  On the plus side, the current principal is good and the SFH neighborhoods are improving.

Stuart has some terrible, seriously overcrowded apartments, but more higher-end housing than FC and FCPS has also been loading up both Stuart and Glasgow with talented administrators over the past year.

FCPS did a demographic hatchet job on Annandale by moving SFH neighborhoods out of Annandale to Lake Braddock, Woodson, Falls Church and Edison.  Some of the older garden apartments off 236 aren't much better than Culmore. [/quote]

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