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The seven-member Fairfax County School Board included four Federal employees. In Blackwell v. 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 ...
The school was originally intended to only serve Fairfax County students, but after Virginia governor Charles S. Robb chose Fairfax County as the location of a regional science and technology school, the school board voted to accept the funding from the state and allow students from Arlington, Loudoun, and Prince William counties and from the ...
Carter G. Woodson High School, commonly known as C. G. Woodson High School or simply Woodson, [3] (formerly Wilbert Tucker Woodson High School [4]) is a public 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.
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] It is ranked 4th in Virginia and 4th in Fairfax County.
Chantilly has a 98% graduation rate [6] and placed in the top 5% of 1,800 Virginia schools for test scores in 2018—2019. [7] During the 2019—2020 academic year, 76% of students passed their AP exams with a score of 3 or higher.
Feb. 5—A new set of high school graduation requirements won approval Monday from the Senate Education Committee — but not without disagreement over whether the state should require students to ...
Mount Vernon High School is a public high school in the Fairfax County Public Schools system located in Mount Vernon, Virginia. History
The school is owned by the City of Fairfax, but is operated by Fairfax County Public Schools under a contractual agreement between it and Fairfax County. The school building, which opened in 1973, is located on Blenheim Boulevard in eastern Fairfax. In 2007, FHS underwent a $54 million renovation designed by architectural firm BerryRio.