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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Haycock is probably the most cut throat ES in the McLean pyramid.  This was made worse last year when it was decided to grandfather out of boundary kids and not admit anymore AAP kids who are within the Lemon Road boundary.

I'm surprised no one has suggested Lemon Road and Timber Lane..the latter which feeds to McLean.

I'm also surprised that OP is "priced out" of North Arlington, but is still considering McLean.  Both areas have similar housing costs.[/quote]

Both Lemon Road and Timber Lane are split feeders - meaning that some students go to one Middle School and High School and other go to a different Middle School and High School.  However, the Timber Lane students are most at risk of changes to their MS and HS boundary as they are basically an Island with Falls Church Schoolsbeteeen them and the rest of the MS and HS population.  The school board has shown a tendency to eliminate islands and peninsulas as the first part of proposed boundary changes.  Lemon Road's Longfellow and McLean HS population is quite small as compared to the Kilmer/Marshall population.  Lemon Road is currently under utilized - it is at high risk of another boundary expansion.  Based on current enrollment overages, it should come from the McLean side, but the Freedom Hill folks probably want to dump the other half of their high needs population on them.  [/quote]

Not so sure about this.  First, the part of Timber Lane assigned to Longfellow/McLean has gone there for a long time, and I haven't seen anything to suggest FCPS is considering moving that area.  Also, without that area, Longfellow/McLean wouldn't be very diverse, so keeping it in the McLean pyramid seems to make a lot of sense.

Second, Lemon Road's enrollment is going to increase in the future because of additional housing and more AAP kids once there are no longer any grandfathered kids from the Marshall pyramid at Haycock.  So there may not be room there for more kids from other schools.   However, if there is extra capacity, moving kids there from Freedom Hill or Shrevewood may be the best use of the space.  The "high needs" area that you refer to is certainly closer to Lemon Road and Shrevewood than it is to Freedom Hill. [/quote]

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