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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So where are the close in small or moderately sized schools with good reputations in NVA located then? All I see is big ones.[/quote]

There aren't any. AFAIK, the only general admission public high school in Northern Virginia with fewer than 1000 students is George Mason High in FCC.

Alexandria's only public high school is TC Williams. It has a 9th grade campus with 715 students and a 10-12 campus with 2569 students. In Arlington, Wakefield has 1507, Washington-Lee has 2008, and Yorktown has 1766. And Fairfax County's smallest high school is Falls Church HS with 1458.

Fairfax County High School enrollment (2012-2013)
Annandale 2120
Centerville 2178
Chantilly 2354
Edison 1525
Fairfax 2439
Falls Church 1458
Hayfield 1760 (plus co-located middle school = 2417)
Herndon 1985
Lake Braddock 2381 (plus middle = 3106)
Langley 1845
Lee 1619
Madison 1856
Marshall 1535
McLean 1991
Mt Vernon 1657
Oakton 1995
Robinson 2511 (plus middle = 3408)
South County 1862
South Lakes 2056
Stuart 1621
W Potomac 2035
W Springfield 2082
Westfield 2504
Woodson 2041[/quote]

These numbers are off, whether for 2012-13 or today.

HS Enrollments as of September 2013 can be found at p. 14 of this report:  http://www.fcps.edu/it/studentreporting/documents/EthnicRpt13.pdf [/quote]

Thanks for posting this link of most recent enrollment. The numbers I posted above are straight off the demographic data pages of each of the high schools, so they must have been accurate at some point during 2012-2013. Regardless, the larger point remains: There are no "small" public general high schools in Fairfax County.[/quote]

You took the general education numbers without also including students receiving English language and special education services.  For example, Madison had 1856 general education students in June 2013, but you get to 1987 students if you add the total number of male and female students listed on the demographics page.

As of April 2014, Falls Church, Lee, Edison and Marshall were the four smallest high schools in the county in terms of enrollment ([b]only schools under 1800 students, and Marshall just barely)[/b].
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Marshall will be over 2,000 by fall 2015.  Even without Tysons development the class sizes of the schools that feed it have been getting bigger for years. [/quote]

Yes, I work at Marshall and our principal said we are predicted to be at around 2200 by 2018.  So much for the 2000 student renovation that is almost complete![/quote]

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