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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do you think this school is Title 1? Seems strange for it's location near DC and being in the McLean district.[/quote]

You can look at the boundary map but, in addition to some single-family neighborhoods, there are garden apartments on the north side of Lee Highway in Falls Church that feed into TL/Longfellow/McLean and other garden apartments south of Lee Highway and off Annandale Road that feed into TL/Jackson/Falls Church.

The area is closer to Falls Church HS and Marshall HS than it is to McLean HS, but FCPS redistricted it to McLean after a county-wide boundary study in 1984. At the same time, some other garden apartments and townhouses also north of Lee Highway but further west were moved from Falls Church to Marshall.

Occasionally, people speculate that the area will get redistricted out of McLean, but it's unlikely to happen because it's been there a long time, it provides McLean with some diversity, Marshall won't have space, and any spare capacity at Falls Church (which has a growing enrollment) probably would be used to alleviate overcrowding at Stuart.[/quote]

There aren't that many at all. There are tons of elementary schools with that many multifamily units that aren't title 1 and aren't in as good a location.[/quote]

Not all multifamily units are alike.  Spring Hill has a fair amount of multifamily housing and a very low FARMS rate.  On the other hand, the catchment area for Sleepy Hollow is primarily single-family neighborhoods, but its demographics are similar to Timber Lane's because a large number of the students live in garden apartments near Seven Corners.  You also have kids transferring to the AAP centers who are less likely to get FARMS.

It's not going to change the fact that kids are kids and people who actually have students at Timber Lane speak highly of it. [/quote]

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