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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't understand why the redistricting isn't a top priority in that case, like Kent Gardens was.  You could easily move kids into Marshall or Langley from the outer boundaries of Mclean and that could bring down the number of students to closer to the capacity threshold at Mclean and bring up the numbers at Marshall and Langley, which both had expansive extensions.  Langley looks like a private school campus now.  So, what is taking the Board so damn long to do the redistricting for Mclean.  I'm sure tons of kids would opt into Langley, if given the choice.[/quote]

Marshall is basically at capacity.  Langley is the option.

And regarding a PP with the Timber Lane split, I just can't see that happening given the demographics.[/quote]

If I was in-bounds for Timber Lane - Longfellow - McLean, I would raise absolute hell if redistricted to Timber Lane - Luther Jackson - Falls Church. That would shave at least $100k off the value of every SFH in that area and get rid of most of the diversity that feeds into McLean. Moving some of McLean to Langley is much more "like to like."[/quote]

McLean HS has one of the weirdest, non-contiguous boundaries in the system.  There are those two islands on the Marshall boundary and the Langley/Marshall boundary are ripe for redistricting.  We deliberately did not buy a house in the blob that abuts the Marshall boundary because we figured it was going to be sent to either Marshall or Falls Church sometime before our kids got there.  No one at McLean is going to cry about being redistricted to Langley, as long as they allow grandfathering for kids already at McLean so they can graduate with their class.

Frankly, the school board does not give a crap about home values, and the fact that the more-affluent-than-FCHS neighborhood has retained their McLean zoning for this long is the more surprising thing.  Maybe if those kids were zoned for Falls Church HS, there would be more well-off parents agitating for their never-ending construction project to actually be finished so the kids are doing four years in trailers.  LJ is not really a big deal - it's only two years, and they have an AAP program that should shield Larlo from the unwashed masses.  (My kid chose to go there over Thoreau, and it was fine - had some very good AAP teachers, but the band program sucks.)  I would move or apply for an academic program transfer before sending my kids to FCHS, based on what I hear from my kid's former LJ classmates who go there now.[/quote]

McLean currently has two attendance island - one in Tysons and one in Falls Church.  They make for weird boundaries, but neither area is super far from McLean HS.

The Tysons island was created when the Spring Gate Apartments in Tysons got built.  Prior to that time there really wasn't any housing in the small area bordered by 123, the Beltway, and the Toll Road.  When the apartments got built, Marshall was well under capacity and McLean was at or above capacity, and Janie Strauss had the area administratively reassigned to Marshall.

The Falls Church island (aka the "Timber Lane island") was created when Fairfax County swapped land with Falls Church City in exchange for what had been the Falls Church City water authority (which supplied water to, and gouged, some county residents).  When that area got transferred to FCC, it created an island south of the expanded FCC borders.

I like contiguous boundaries, and wonder what McLean's enrollment would be if the area south of Lewinsville Road between Route 7 and Route 123 and north of the Toll Road were reassigned from Langley to McLean, the Spring Gate apartments were reassigned from Marshall to McLean, and the Timber Lane island was reassigned from McLean to Falls Church.  Maybe part of the eastern-most McLean neighborhoods off Dolley Madison would also need to move from McLean to Langley to keep the McLean enrollment in check.  It would make for a nicer map, and piss off a ton of folks in the process.  [/quote]

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