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The school system still has 2,000 students, which is larger than most small town school systems.  It is more similar to the upper middle class suburbs of major cities, which have separate school systems for each city, town or village, as opposed to having the county administer the entire school system.

Fairfax County is one of the most populous counties in the country and certainly one of the wealthiest of the larger counties, many of which would include poorer urban areas.  [/quote]

You could make that comparison, although towns with their own school systems are not uniformly upper middle class, and most of them have larger schools than the FCC schools.  But you can definitely find some tony suburbs where the public HS are roughly the same size as George Mason.

On the other hand, the smaller schools in places like Westchester tend to be close to one another, whereas the nearest schools of Mason's size in Virginia are in the City of Manassas and rural counties.  That can make a place like Mason more attractive if you prefer a small school, or less attractive if you don't want your kid having to travel to Ruritania County for an away field hockey match or basketball game.

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