List of Fairfax County Public Schools middle schools

Rachel Carson Middle School is an Advanced Academic Placement (AAP) Center.

The school has a wide range of electives to choose from and a large fine and performing arts program.

Carson Middle School offers Spanish, French, Chinese, and Japanese foreign language classes.

[8] Elementary schools that feed into RCMS include Oak Hill, Floris, Coates, Crossfield, Navy, McNair, Lees Corner, and Fox Mill.

[12] James Fenimore Cooper Middle School is an Advanced Academic Placement (AAP) Center.

Cooper Middle School offers Chinese, Spanish, French, and Japanese foreign language classes.

The Virginia Music Educators' Association awarded Frost Middle School their Blue Ribbon from 2009 through 2017.

[citation needed] As with many other middle schools in the area, chorus, orchestra and band classes take a trip to an amusement park, such as Busch Gardens or Kings Dominion near the end of the year.

Extracurricular activities occur every day, with late buses offered on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.

[27][28][29] In 2007, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia gave a lecture to the Seekers team at Frost.

Many students opt to stay after school on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays to participate in extracurricular activities.

As of the spring of 2007, the number of exams on which a score of 3 or higher was achieved (on a scale of 1–5) rose to 57% from 46% the previous year, the best results found on record for Hayfield.

In 1995 the Herndon Middle School Band, under the direction of Noreen Liennemann, won the prestigious Sudler Cup, presented by the John Philip Sousa Foundation to honor middle school concert bands that have demonstrated high standards of excellence over a period of years.

Elementary schools that feed into Langston Hughes Middle School are Terraset, Sunrise Valley, Forest Edge, Lake Anne, Dogwood, Hunters Woods, and students transfer from nearby Crossfield, Armstrong, Aldrin, Clearview, Dranesville, Herndon, and Hutchison.

In March, a 13-year-old boy was convicted for organizing a sex-for-hire ring that involved a half dozen of his female classmates.

[42] A music video for a song named "Eastside" by Benny Blanco, Halsey, and Khalid released in 2018 with over 500 million views was partially filmed at the Langston Hughes campus, due to Benny Blanco's relations with the school.

[citation needed] Kilmer's student body of 1100-1200 as of 2021 is 60% White, 21% Asian, 10% Hispanic, 5% unspecified, 4% Black, and less than 1% Native American.

[69] Elementary schools that feed into Longfellow include Chesterbrook, Haycock, Kent Gardens, Franklin Sherman, and Timberlane.

Longfellow Middle also provides classes for the mentally disabled, and has an entire after-school club devoted to entertaining these students, "Good Buddies".

At these competitions the musicians play pieces of music while a panel of judges critiques their sound and style.

At the annual District Assessment, the Longfellow Symphonic band has consistently received a rating of I (Superior).

The Concert, Symphonic, and Chamber orchestras have regularly received I (Superior) ratings at the District Assessments.

In 2018, the Longfellow Chamber Orchestra was invited to perform at the Midwest Clinic in Chicago, Illinois as one of only three middle schools worldwide attending that year.

The school has two gymnasiums, two playing fields, a basketball court, and a quarter mile gravel track, as well as a library, a lecture hall, and a Black Box theater.

The most recent addition to the series of secondary schools is South County in Lorton, which opened in 2005, taking its students from former Hayfield territory.

In 2018, Fairfax County commenced a $47.6 million renovation[85] of Rocky Run, which temporarily closed several classrooms.

To accommodate the temporary displacement, FCPS built a set of trailers called Ramsville, placing them on the back blacktop of the school.

Henry David Thoreau Middle School (Region 1,[1] grades 7–8[93]), is located east of Vienna.

Each team is coordinated by the four core teachers (from English, mathematics, science and social studies), a school counselor and an administrator.

Walt Whitman Middle School offers French, German, and Spanish foreign language classes.