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Prince William County Public Schools (PWCS) is a school division in Virginia with its headquarters in the Kelly Leadership Center located in the unincorporated community of Independent Hill in Prince William County, Virginia. [1] As of the 2020 census, the population of the county was 486,943. [7]
Freedom High School held its dedication ceremony on September 11, 2004. The school also dedicated its memorial to the Prince William County victims of the September 11 attacks. As a permanent part of the high school, there is a 62-foot-diameter (19 m) sundial dedicated to them.
The school was a 2004 recipient of the Blue Ribbon Academic School award. Brentsville District High School remains the only Virginia high school to ever achieve this status. As of the 2011-2012 school year, 86% of the students continue onto high education.
In 2013 it had 2,830 students, one of the largest such figures in the schools in Prince William County. In 2013 the student body became plurality white as ethnic diversity increased. [2] In the 2017-2018 school year, Woodbridge's student body was: [16] 22.3% Black/African American; 33.6% Hispanic; 29.3% White; 7.7% Asian; 6.8% Two or More Races
The facility enrolls students from grade 1–8, and serves the communities of Manassas, Haymarket, Bristow, Bull Run, Gainesville, and Nokesville. The school is named after Philip Michael Pennington, a Prince William County police officer who was killed in the line of duty in 1990. [2] In September 2000, Pennington became the first traditional ...
Both potential CMS calendars have a 14-day winter break beginning for students Dec. 20, 2025 through Jan. 4, 2026, two days shorter than the 2024-25 school year and the same number of days as this ...
For example, in the approved calendar, there are no teacher workdays or holidays in October, and from Feb. 1, 2024 through March 28, 2024, there is only one day off for students and teachers ...
In 2017, the Prince William County Public Schools (PWCS) Board was considering renaming the school as part of a shift away from naming schools after Confederate leaders. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] In 2020, the PWCS Superintendent released an open letter saying, "We can no longer represent the Confederacy in our schools".