Which Fairfax County public schools serve a McLean address — named, with the line between the two pyramids described, and the district’s own locator as the authority.
Every address in McLean is assigned to a Fairfax County public elementary, middle and high school by the Fairfax County School Board, and the assignment travels with the address — not with the neighborhood name, not with the ZIP code, and not with the street. This page names the schools that serve McLean as of August 2026, describes where the dividing lines run, and points to the district’s own locator, which is the only current authority. It does not rate, rank or compare any school. That is deliberate: naming which school serves an address is a fact a buyer needs, and grading it is not a broker’s job.
Attendance boundaries change. The district's own locator is the authority — not a listing, and not this page.
FCPS Boundary Locator (official — school assignment by address) →McLean is split between two Fairfax County high school pyramids. The McLean High School pyramid runs McLean High School at 1633 Davidson Road, fed by Longfellow Middle School at 2000 Westmoreland Street in Falls Church. The Langley High School pyramid runs Langley High School at 6520 Georgetown Pike, fed by Cooper Middle School at 977 Balls Hill Road. At the elementary level, six schools carry most McLean addresses. Churchill Road Elementary (7100 Churchill Road) and Spring Hill Elementary (8201 Lewinsville Road) sit on the Cooper–Langley side. Franklin Sherman Elementary (6633 Brawner Street), Kent Gardens Elementary (1717 Melbourne Drive), Chesterbrook Elementary (1753 Kirby Road) and Haycock Elementary (6616 Haycock Road, Falls Church) sit on the Longfellow–McLean side. Westgate Elementary at 7500 Magarity Road picks up part of the southern edge toward Tysons, and McLean’s outer western and southern fringes can fall to other schools again.
There is one dividing line, and the middle school line sits directly on top of the high school line: north of it an address feeds Cooper Middle and Langley High, south of it Longfellow Middle and McLean High. Reading the published FCPS boundary maps west to east, the line enters McLean near the Dulles Toll Road (Route 267) and Lewinsville Road, crosses Chain Bridge Road (Route 123) and runs northeast past Farm Mill Road and Merrimac Drive, then turns east and passes just north of downtown McLean — Churchill Road, Elizabeth Drive and Forestwood Drive lie north of it; Fleetwood Road, Chelsea Road and Old Chesterbrook Road lie south. Near Ballantrae Farm Drive the line joins Route 123 itself and follows Chain Bridge Road east past Stoneham Lane, over the George Washington Memorial Parkway, to the Potomac. That is a reading of the maps, not a legal description, and it will not resolve an individual block. The locator will.
FCPS assigns by pyramid: a set of elementary schools feeds one middle school, which feeds one high school. Where one elementary school’s students end up in more than one middle or high school, FCPS calls it a split feeder; where a pocket is assigned to a school whose area does not touch it, an attendance island. The January 2026 boundary plan was built in part to reduce both, so a block that was an exception last year may not be one now. Two programs change the default. Kent Gardens hosts the division’s French dual language immersion program, entered by a county-wide lottery for rising first graders rather than by address, and a student already in it stays in it through a boundary change. Full-time Advanced Academic Program placement is decided by central screening, not by address; for 2025-26 Churchill Road and Haycock were center sites at the elementary level and Cooper and Longfellow at the middle level, while Chesterbrook, Franklin Sherman, Kent Gardens, Spring Hill and Westgate ran local full-time programs. The locator reports an address’s AAP center alongside its base schools. Anything beyond that is a student transfer: requested for specific reasons, granted only if capacity allows, approved annually, carrying a $100 non-refundable fee unless waived, and with no FCPS transportation.
Three dated moves matter in McLean. On February 4, 2021 the School Board shifted part of the McLean High attendance area — including split-feeder portions tied to Colvin Run, Spring Hill and Westbriar elementary schools — to Cooper Middle and Langley High, about 190 high school and 78 middle school students, phased in by grade. On December 4, 2023 the Board adopted the McLean elementary adjustment, effective in 2024-25 and phasing grade by grade until it is fully in place for 2029-30; it moves areas from Kent Gardens to Franklin Sherman and to Haycock, and from Franklin Sherman to Chesterbrook and to Churchill Road. Because that adjustment is still phasing in August 2026, two children at one address can legitimately be attending two different elementary schools. On January 22, 2026 the Board approved, 8-3, the county’s first comprehensive boundary review in roughly four decades — about 1,700 students across dozens of schools — effective with the 2026-27 year, which began August 24, 2026. In McLean it reassigns part of north-central Tysons from McLean High and Longfellow to Langley High and Cooper, ending Spring Hill Elementary’s high school split feeder. Phasing follows School Board Policy 8130: mandatory for incoming ninth graders, optional for rising tenth through twelfth. FCPS has said further areas remain under study with recommendations due in January 2027.
Use the FCPS Boundary Locator. Enter the house number and the street name without the street type, and it returns the elementary, middle and high school serving that address for the 2026-27 school year, plus the elementary and middle AAP centers, the magisterial district and the School Board member. FCPS updates it each July for the coming year, and states plainly that it guarantees no address will continue to be served by the same schools. Check the specific address, not the street and not the neighborhood — in McLean the line can run between two sides of one road. Check it again before writing an offer, because a School Board vote between the showing and settlement changes the answer. And treat the school fields on a listing sheet as unverified: they are typed in by the listing agent, are not audited, and in an area partway through a phase-in they go stale quietly. If the assignment matters to the purchase, run the address yourself and keep the result.
It will not tell you whether a school is good. This site belongs to a broker licensed in Virginia, Maryland and the District, and school quality is not something a broker gets to characterize for a buyer. Published school ratings track neighborhood demographics closely, and steering buyers by them is among the most documented fair housing violations there is. So: which school serves the address, yes, with a source you can check. Whether you should want it, no. Visit the school, speak to the principal, read the division’s own reporting, and reach your own conclusion.
More on the area in the McLean guide.
School assignment turns on the address, not the neighbourhood, and a listing's school field is unverified. Artur can confirm it against the district record before you write.
