Fairfax County Public Schools
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 Fairfax County Public Schools
Fairfax County Public Schools
Fairfax County Public Schools
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8115 Gatehouse Road Falls Church (Merrifield), Virginia 22042 United States |
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| Coordinates | 38°52′06″N 77°13′26″W / 38.86833°N 77.22389°WCoordinates: 38°52′06″N 77°13′26″W / 38.86833°N 77.22389°W |
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| School type | Public, school division |
| Founded | 1870 |
| School board | Ilryong Moon, (At-Large) Ryan McElveen (At-Large) Jeanette Hough, (At-Large) Megan McLaughlin (Braddock District) Jane Strauss Vice Chair (Dranesville District) Pat Hynes, (Hunter Mill District) Tammy Derenak Kaufax, (Lee District) Sandy Evans Chair (Mason District) Karen Corbett Sanders (Mount Vernon District) Dalia Palchik (Providence District) Elizabeth Schultz (Springfield District) Thomas Wilson (Sully District) Laura Chu, Student Representative (Thomas Jefferson High School' for Science and Technology) |
| NCES District ID | 5101260 |
| Superintendent | Dr. Steve Lockard |
| Staff | 23,447 |
| Grades | Pre-K–12 |
| Enrollment | 186,785 (2014–2015) |
| Campus | Suburban |
| Area | Fairfax County, Virginia |
| Website | http://www.fcps.edu/ |
The Fairfax County Public Schools system (abbreviated FCPS) is a school division in the U.S. commonwealth of Virginia. It is a branch of the Fairfax County government which administers public schools in Fairfax County and the City of Fairfax. FCPS's headquarters is located in the Gatehouse Administration Center in Merrifield, an unincorporated section of the county near the city of Falls Church; the headquarters has a Falls Church address but is not within the city limits. All Fairfax County Public Schools are accredited through the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Council on Accreditation and School Improvement.
With over 180,000 students enrolled, FCPS is the largest public school system in Virginia, as well as the largest in the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area. The school division is led by interim division superintendent Steve Lockard. The school division is the 10th largest school system in the nation and maintains the largest school bus fleet of any school system in the United States.
The public school system in Fairfax County was created after the Civil War with the adoption by Virginia of the Reconstruction-era state constitution in 1870, which provided for the first time that a free public education was a constitutional right. The first Superintendent of Schools for Fairfax County was Thomas M. Moore, who was sworn in on September 26, 1870.
At the time of its creation, the Fairfax County Public Schools system consisted of 41 schools, 28 white and 13 colored schools.
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