Type Public school Enrollment 1500 Number of students 1,500 | Principal Ronald James Phone +1 703-846-8800 Motto "Dare To Excel" | |
Address 8100 Wolftrap Rd, Vienna, VA 22182, USA District Fairfax County Public Schools Similar Thomas Jefferson High Sch, Fairfax County Govt Adul, Mary Ellen Henderson Middle Sc, Williamsb Middle School, Louise Archer Elementa Profiles | ||
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Joyce Kilmer Middle School is a school in the Fairfax County Public Schools System in unincorporated Fairfax County, Virginia, United States, east of the city of Vienna. Kilmer serves grades 7-8. It was named after the journalist and poet Joyce Kilmer. Kilmer has a GT program for students who have been determined to be "Gifted and Talented." It is now called AAP, or "Advanced Academics Program."
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Feeder schools
This school feeds into Madison High School, George C. Marshall High School, and Langley High School.
Demographics
Kilmer's student body is 54.4% White, 25% Asian, 11.6% Hispanic, 5.5% Unspecified, and 3.5% black.
Test scores
Kilmer is fully accredited by the Virginia Department of Education. The following chart is for the 2006-2007 school year.
Music program
Kilmer is known for its music program. The school received the Blue Ribbon Award in 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2016 which is given to schools whose top performing groups from orchestra, chorus and band all receive Superior ratings at Festival, the highest rating possible. The Kilmer 2010 and 2014 Symphonic Bands played at the Virginia Music Educators Association (VMEA) Conference in Norfolk, VA.
Teachers
48% of the teachers have a bachelor's degrees, 52% have master's degrees. There is an average of about 19.5 students per teacher. There is a 97% attendance rate.
GT center conversion controversy
In 2006, Fairfax County Public Schools decided that many Gifted and Talented students from Kilmer would be moved to Luther Jackson Middle School due to overpopulation. This created a controversy among Vienna parents, concerned with transportation issues and split-feeder schools - meaning that students would be split up from their classmates from elementary and middle school. This decision attracted media attention from the Washington Post, Fairfax Extra, The Connection and other local news. The School Board decided to open the new Luther Jackson GT Center in two stages. In its first year, only GT-eligible students in the base Luther Jackson district would attend, and Vienna students whose base middle school was Thoreau would attend the GT Center at Kilmer.