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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Great Falls Elementary School enrollment is down as well patents are opting for private schools[/quote]

Is it that or is it that millennial parents with elementary age kids don’t want to live in Great Falls? It’s a little more isolated than many areas of the county and that doesn’t appeal to everyone. [/quote]

Agree, most people with young children don't find aging mcmansions out in the middle of nowhere appealing.[/quote]

It's great to be handy and/or have the money for contractors.  Contractors STAY busy around here.  It's also lovely to live in a part of the county with lots of open space for the kids, a central community gathering location and abundant plant and wildlife.

The great thing about this county is that you can live stacked on top of people if you like that or step out into your back yard and see nothing but trees and foxes if that's your thing.[/quote]

This may be true but if you’re talking about Great Falls they’ve had to shore up Langley’s enrollment by reassigning kids there repeatedly, first from Herndon and then from McLean.

If Langley had the same boundaries it had in the early 90s it would probably have an enrollment somewhere between Lewis and Mount Vernon. [/quote]

Well, either a worsening economy forces families back into public (ALOT of GF and I'll bet McLean sends their children to private) or the accelerating decline in enrollment will cause the school board to reboundary a part of GF closest to Herndon to that pyramid.  A percent of GF parents still in FCPS will switch to private, some will go to Herndon pyramid elementary, middle and high.

In that scenario Great Falls elementary will close for lack of enrollment and then some entity will buy it and re-open it as a private K-5 school.

All that would take another decade or so.[/quote]
Let’s check back in a decade and see if you’re right. I won’t hold my breath.

Until then, you might want to shore up your theories with a lot more logic rather than your wants and desires. It’s a pretty weak analysis all around.[/quote]

I would rather the economy improve and folks stay in their private schools of choice.

The second scenario is my preferred outcome.  Do you know how many people in GF would LOVE a high quality, full-sized private elementary right here in the neighborhood? 
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Really?  I would guess only a handful because it takes awhile for a private school to get the name recognition GF families would want for a private school. And then there would be the inevitable fight over what kind of curriculum the school would have (Waldorf, progressive, nature focused, traditional etc). Most private schools have a niche and no school would be able to deliver immediate name recognition and all the programs GF parents want. [/quote]

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