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Virginia’s Fairfax County Public Schools system contains 31 high schools. The district contains 15 school that received a gold, silver, or bronze medals in U.S. News‘s Best High Schools rankings: Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Alexandria ranked #2 nationally and #1 in Virginia. http://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/virginia/districts/fairfax-county-public-schools . Thomas Jefferson High School, Alexandria, VA 22312  — 100% [...]

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Virginia’s Loudoun County Public Schools system contains 11 high schools. The district contains 1 school that received a gold medal in U.S. News‘s Best High Schools rankings: Stone Bridge High School, Ashburn, which ranked #178 nationally and #10 in Virginia. http://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/virginia/districts/loudoun-county-public-schools . Briar Woods High School, Ashburn, VA 20148  — 82% Tested AP, 54% Passed AP COLLEGE [...]

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Virginia’s Prince William County Public Schools contains 10 high schools. The district contains 1 school that received a silver medal in U.S. News‘s Best High Schools rankings: Osbourn Park High School, Manassas, which ranked #545 nationally and #23 in Virginia. http://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/virginia/districts/prince-william-county-public-schools . Battlefield High School, Haymarket, VA 20169  — 55% Tested AP, 31% Passed AP COLLEGE [...]

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Virginia’s Arlington County Public Schools contains 3 high schools: Wakefield High School, Arlington, VA Washington-Lee High School, Arlington, VA Yorktown High School, Arlington, VA Visit here for College Readiness, Math Proficiency and Reading Proficiency:  http://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/virginia/districts/arlington-county-public-schools . NOTE: All information presented here is believed to be accurate, but is subject to errors and omissions and should [...]

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The 2012 Report is in and dozens of Virginia, Maryland and D.C. schools made U.S. News & World Report‘s list of the highest ranking high schools. To produce the report,  21,776 public high schools were analyzed in 49 states and the District of Columbia. This is the total number of public high schools that had 12th-grade [...]

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High schools in the Prince William County Public School (PWCS) Division continue to fare well in “The Washington Post” national survey that measures the effort schools make in encouraging students to take college-level courses. . All 10 Prince William County high schools rank in the top 7 percent of all high schools in the nation, [...]

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Loudoun County Public Schools SAT scores have been improving tremendously for the last couple of years. The average Loudoun County VA Public Schools SAT scores in 2010 were 76 points higher than average Virginia SAT scores and 88 points higher than National SAT scores. . . . . .. . Here are the Loudoun County Public Schools, Virginia, SAT test [...]

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All Prince William County Public Schools in Virginia (PWCS) are accredited under Commonwealth accreditation guidelines as per Virginia Department of Education. The new accreditation ratings for 2011–12 are based on performance during the 2010–2011 school year or a three-year average. “At all levels, our students are exceeding the content-area benchmarks required for accreditation,” said Superintendent of Prince [...]

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Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (also called TJHSST, TJ, Jefferson) is a Virginia state-chartered magnet school located in Northern Virginia. It is a regional high school operated by Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS).  Attendance at TJ is open to students in six local jurisdictions based on an admissions test and prior academic achievement. Langley [...]

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Prince William County Schools in Virginia released the SAT scores for the 2010-11 school year showing that county students outperformed the national average in Reading and performed closely with the rest of the nation on Writing and Math. The College Board’s report announced that graduating high school seniors in Prince William County Schools, Virginia, who took the SAT college [...]

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Students in Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) class of 2011 outperformed their peers in Virginia and the nation on the SAT test.  FCPS scores are 39 points above  the state’s average in Critical Reading, 54 points above the state’s average in Mathematics, and 45 points above the state’s average in Writing. SAT results compiled by the [...]

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Leesburg Virginia won Money Magazine’s List of the Best Towns to Live for Northern Virginia area and was placed at number 4 on the Money Magazine’s List of the Top 100 Places To Live in United States for the year of 2011. Money Magazine also placed Herndon VA at number 34, just ahead of Oakton VA at number 36 on the [...]

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A Fairfax student was suspended for two weeks from school for taking her birth control pills at lunch time. The pills were prescribed by the teen’s doctor and approved by her mother. According to school policies, the student’s pills should have been kept in the school clinic with the nurse. Fairfax County Schools’ safe and drug-free [...]

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  Location,  Location,  Location….. is an old mantra and a top predictor of a Real Estate success. . For many parents of school aged children,  school district and the quality of education provided for their children is very closely next on the list. . According to a report released by the College Board February 4, [...]

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