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The public school system in Fairfax County, Virginia, was created following the end of the Civil War with the adoption by Virginia of the Reconstruction-era state constitution in 1870, which provided for the first time that free public education was a constitutional right. The first superintendent of schools for Fairfax County was Thomas M ...
September 4, 2024 at 4:53 PM. Fairfax County officials are raising alarms over Virginia’s impending changes to school accreditation rankings, arguing that the new system could negatively impact ...
A list of the 500 largest school districts in 2000–2001 from the National Center for Education Statistics (Department of Education) 100 largest school districts, by enrollment size, from the United States Department of Education (2010-11 school year) 120 largest school districts, by enrollment size, from the United States Department of ...
George C. Marshall High School is a public school in Falls Church, Virginia. Named for General George C. Marshall, it opened in 1962 and is part of Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS). It is ranked #245 in the nation for public schools and has received a gold award for Best High Schools from the U.S. News & World Report 2020. [5]
38°48′54″N 77°9′48″W Oliver Wendell Holmes Middle School [38] (Region 2, [1] grades 6–8 [39]), also known as Holmes Middle School, is a public school with an Alexandria address but is outside of the city limits. It is part of the Fairfax County Public Schools system. It is named after the poet Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Fairfax County Public Schools pushed back on Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s conservative policies. The school board faces a serious test in the Nov. 7 elections.
McLean High opened its doors on September 6, 1955, with an enrollment of 1,031 students from grades 8 through 11 with Principal Craighill S. Burks. [6] At the time, McLean was the newest high school in Fairfax County, and the only high school located in McLean since the Franklin Sherman School, originally built in 1914, closed in the late 1930s ...
W.T. Woodson High School. Wilbert Tucker Woodson High School, commonly known as W.T. Woodson High School or simply Woodson, (in the process of renaming to Carter G. Woodson High School[3]) is a high school located in Fairfax County, Virginia, just outside the east end of the city of Fairfax limits, opposite the shopping center on Main Street.