Francis C. Hammond Middle School in Alexandria, Virginia, is located at 4646 Seminary Road in the west end of the city.
Opened as a four-year high school in 1956, it was named after Alexandria native Francis Hammond (1931–1953), a U.S. Navy hospital corpsman who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions in the Korean War.
[1][2] Francis C. Hammond Middle School applied to be part of the International Baccalaureate program in 2010.
Williams, took all of the city's juniors and seniors, while Hammond and George Washington split the freshmen and sophomores.
[3] Prior to the consolidation, the city was approximately one-fifth black, but Hammond High School's student body in the spring of 1971 was nearly all white.