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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Langley isn’t over 105% now. Sorry. [/b]

If all the pupil placements from Herndon return to South Lakes, you still have hundreds of empty seats.  They are just divided between the two schools rather than concentrated at Herndon.  Move Fox Mill to Western and the number of vacancies between HHS and SLHS only increases.

In any event the focus of the discussion was on speakers at public hearings claiming to speak on behalf of others they had no authority to speak for.  The fact that she made a pitch for redistricting Langley was incidental. [/quote]
The trigger wouldn't be Langley being over 105%, the trigger would be Herndon being under-enrolled.  In the future Langley and Cooper may also cross that 105% trigger too - especially now that they are creating an island of Westbriar kids north of Wolftrap that are going to likely end up at Colvin Run and the Langley pyramid sometime in the future.[/quote]

Well, maybe, maybe not.

If you look at the almost-completed boundary study, they treated overcrowding over 105% as something warranting a potential boundary change and under-enrollment as something that might require further consideration as to the root causes.  That was evidenced by their not addressing Lewis in Scenarios 1-4, only tentatively proposing something (Bren Mar Park getting moved from Edison to Lewis) after Scenario 4 had come out, and then dropping it, saying that, among other things, they wanted to look at program enhancements at Lewis.

No one knows what will happen with the Westbriar island.  For now, it's still assigned to Kilmer and Marshall and, given the changes to the Kilmer/Marshall boundaries moving kids to Thoreau/Madison, it would push Marshall yet further below capacity if kids moved from that island to the Langley pyramid.  Maybe at some point growth in Tysons pushes Marshall back up over 105%, just like Tysons growth could push Langley over 105%.  But for now you seem to hoping for things that more likely are off the table for years.

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