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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 ...
Thoreau is a feeder school for James Madison High School, George C. Marshall High School and Oakton High School. Because of the 2008 redistricting in Fairfax County, some of Thoreau's students (who previously lived in the James Madison High School district) were redistricted to Hughes Middle School and South Lakes High School. In 2018, due to ...
Fairfax High School is a fully accredited high school based on the Standards of Learning (SOL) tests in Virginia. FHS is performing above the state median on all SOL assessments including 91% in Reading, 88% in writing, 79% in math, and 79% in science. [4]
Sep. 10—Frederick County Public Schools has entered into a formal partnership with the Phoenix Recovery Academy, the state's only high school for students recovering from substance use disorders.
The Edison Academy is a career center where 10th-12th graders can take courses based on a career they want to pursue when they finish school. It helps them build the skills they need for a successful career. Edison High School is one of the selected schools in Fairfax County to have an academy center.
McLean High School is a fully-accredited high school based on Virginia's Standards of Learning tests. The average SAT score for McLean's Class of 2024 was 1308 (including both Critical Reading and Writing and Math), the second-highest among Fairfax County's 25 high and secondary schools. [12]
In the fall of 2020, the Fairfax County School Board revised the admissions process, dropping the standardized test, removing the $100 application fee, and allocating a small number of seats in the incoming class of 2025 to each public middle school in the region, while evaluating students on their grades, essays, and "experience factors ...