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Falls Church City Public Schools

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Superintendent
  
Dr. Toni Jones

Enrollment
  
2,300 (April 11, 2013)

Number of schools
  
4

Staff
  
349 (2012)

Grades
  
Pre-K–12

Area
  
Falls Church, Virginia

Number of students
  
2,300

Funding type
  
State school

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School type
  
Public, school division

School board
  
Susan Kearney, chairman Justin Castillo, vice-chairman Michael Ankuma John Lawrence Kieran Sharpe Margaret Ward Lawrence Webb

Headquarters
  
Falls Church, Virginia, United States

Falls Church City Public Schools (FCCPS) is an independent public school division that serves students who live in the Washington, D.C. suburb of the City of Falls Church, Virginia as well as tuition students who live outside the city limits. The school division's four, now five in 2015, schools served 2,415 students in the 2013-2014 school year. The on-time graduation rate is 97 percent. The 2013 SAT score average was 1764.

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Map of Falls Church City Public Schools, Falls Church, VA, USA

Of the now five schools in the FCCPS system, only one, Mt. Daniel Elementary School, is located outside the city boundaries in neighboring Fairfax County. Previously two other schools were outside the city's borders, but they became included when the city line was readjusted following the settlement of a dispute with the county over the City's water system.

The FCCPS officially became an independent school system on June 27, 1949, when the Virginia Board of Education authorized its separation from the Fairfax County school system. Falls Church had obtained the enabling legislation to form an independent city in the year before, in 1948.

Schools

  • Jesse Thackery Preschool (Pre-school)
  • Mount Daniel School named after a street (K-1st Grade)
  • Thomas Jefferson Elementary School (Grades 2-5)
  • Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School, named after the sister to Harriet Henderson (Grades 6-8)
  • George Mason High School (Grades 9-12)
  • References

    Falls Church City Public Schools Wikipedia