Evermay's school assignment splits in two along Dolley Madison Boulevard, so two addresses in the same subdivision can feed different Fairfax County high schools.
Start with the detail that decides the most for a buyer here: Evermay is divided by Dolley Madison Boulevard, and the two halves are assigned to different school pyramids. North of the boulevard the assignment is Churchill Road Elementary, Cooper Middle and Langley High School. South of it, Franklin Sherman Elementary, Longfellow Middle and McLean High School. A listing that says "Evermay, McLean" cannot tell you which side of the road the house sits on — the street address does. The rest of Evermay's character follows from its land: R-2 lots recorded in sections 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6 on Fairfax tax map 0311, along Evermay Drive, Evermay Court and Stoneham Lane.
The name is shared with a walled 19th-century estate in Georgetown, in Washington, DC, and search engines conflate the two constantly. That property is a single historic house and garden. This Evermay is a recorded Fairfax County subdivision in McLean, Virginia, and the two have nothing to do with each other beyond the word. When you search listing sites, pair the name with McLean or with one of the streets — Evermay Drive, Evermay Court, Stoneham Lane — or you will spend your time reading about a garden across the river.
Dolley Madison Boulevard is Route 123 where it runs through McLean, and it is the dividing line for Evermay's assignment as of August 2026. The Fairfax County School Board revised the boundary between the McLean and Langley pyramids on February 4, 2021, which is a reminder that these lines are administrative and do move. Two houses a few hundred feet apart can therefore carry different assignments while sharing a subdivision name, a plat and a price band. Before you commit, run the exact address through the FCPS school boundary locator — that is the authority, not the MLS field.
Evermay is zoned R-2, which the Fairfax County ordinance defines as two dwelling units per acre, and it straddles two drainages: Pimmit Run and Turkey Run. Resource Protection Areas are mapped inside the neighborhood's footprint. Under the county's Chesapeake Bay Preservation Ordinance, an RPA carries a 100-foot buffer intended to stay undisturbed; clear-cutting is prohibited, as is removing vegetation to create lawn, and land disturbance needs prior approval from Land Development Services. Some requests are handled administratively; an exception goes to the county's Exception Review Committee at a public hearing and can require a water quality impact assessment. On a wooded rear yard here, that is the difference between a pool you can site and one you cannot.
McLean's teardown-and-rebuild pattern reaches Evermay as it does the rest of the area, and the arithmetic is county arithmetic. A demolition permit and a new residential building permit both come from Fairfax County, and what can go back on the lot is set by setbacks, maximum height, lot coverage and tree preservation requirements — not by the footprint of the house that came down. Where an RPA cuts into the rear of a lot, the buildable envelope shrinks before the zoning math even starts. One logistical note for trade vehicles: the George Washington Memorial Parkway is a National Park Service road, and a commercial vehicle needs a special use permit to use it, which the Park Service denies where another route reaches the destination.
Evermay sits within McLean — that guide covers the zoning, permitting and site constraints that apply across the wider area.
Artur can confirm what applies to a specific address here — lot, zoning, association documents and school assignment — before you write an offer.
