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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lewis has roughly 1700 students in total and has continually gotten smaller over the past decade. It is technically a Class 5 VHSL school although they compete in Class 6. They aren't able to form any level of baseball or softball teams and field hockey is probably next. They had 7 active players for field hockey last season.

It's a very sad situation because sports are pretty important as far as attracting families. Being the smallest school by a significant margin in the area means they will always be at a disadvantage in sports and most teams will have losing seasons. 1700 kids can't compete with schools that have 2600+ as is so common in FCPS.[/quote]

Lewis like most surrounding FCPS schools at the time was around 1600 students 30 years ago. The exceptions were the mega sized secondary schools. Lewis (then Robert E Lee) was a very competitive school in most every sport at the time. The size of the school doesn’t necessarily matter regarding competitiveness, it’s the demographics. But the magic recipe of demographics plus a large size creates the superstar sports schools like Robinson, Lake Braddock, Yorktown, Torrey Pines HS (the top sports hs in the country), etc. [/quote]

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