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The district operates two school buildings: Homer-Center Elementary (grades K-6) and Homer-Center Junior/Senior High School (grades 7–12) with a total enrollment of 964 students, grades K-12. The district's high school building currently accommodates 491 students, while the elementary has an enrollment of 473 students.
Fairfax County School Board in 1960, black plaintiffs charged that the Fairfax grade-a-year plan was discriminatory and dilatory. Fifteen black children had been refused admission to white schools because they did not fall within the prescribed grades of the School Board's assignment plan.
Fairfax is located close to the geographic center of Fairfax County, at (38.852612, −77.304377 According to the U.S. Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 6.3 square miles (16.3 km 2 ), of which all but 0.04 square miles (0.1 km 2 ) is land.
The board approved the calendar for the 2024-25 academic year on Oct. 12. The year will start with a two-hour registration day on Aug. 7 followed by the first full school day on Aug. 8.
Katherine Johnson Middle School (Region 5, [1] grades 7-8 [49]) is a City of Fairfax and Fairfax County Public Schools AAP (FCPS Advanced Academics Program) Center-based middle school serving grades 7-8 in Region 5. The school is owned by the City of Fairfax, but implements Fairfax County Public Schools' "educational services, staffing ...
Virginia Avenue became a k-4 school in 1999 and a K-2 school in 2005. Shirley Lane Elementary School opened in 2005. Six classrooms were added in 2006 to accommodate the rapid growth in the district. Shirley Lane Elementary is a grade 3-5 school. Zephyr Lane Elementary is the newest school added to the district, thus, changing Fairfax Middle ...
The school opened in 1952. The magnet program was established in 1991, [1] after Bailey's parent–teacher association (PTA), under President Richard Kurin, threatened to sue the school board to redraw the school boundaries, [2] hoping to bring academic, linguistic, and cultural diversity to a school with a high percentage of non-native English speakers (87% in 1991). [3]
Rose Hill is a census-designated place (CDP) in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States.The population was 20,226 at the 2010 census. [1] Built in the mid-1950s, Rose Hill is the largest of the subdivisions that make up the CDP, which is just southwest of Alexandria; others include Wilton Woods, Burgundy Village, and Winslow Heights.