H-B Woodlawn
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4100 North Vacation Lane Arlington, Virginia 22207 United States |
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| Coordinates | 38°54′0.7″N 77°6′43.2″W / 38.900194°N 77.112000°WCoordinates: 38°54′0.7″N 77°6′43.2″W / 38.900194°N 77.112000°W |
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| School type | Public Alternative-education program |
| Motto |
Verbum Sap Sat (A Word to the Wise is Sufficient) |
| Founded | 1978 |
| School district | Arlington Public Schools |
| Superintendent | Dr. Patrick Murphy, APS |
| Principal | Dr. Casey Robinson |
| Grades | 6–12 |
| Enrollment | 606 (Fall 2010) |
| Language | English |
| Campus | Suburban |
| Website | http://www.apsva.us/woodlawn/ |
The H-B Woodlawn Program, commonly referred to as H-B, is an alternative all-county public school located in Arlington County, Virginia, United States based on the liberal educational movements of the 1960s and 1970s. The school, which serves grades 6 through 12, is a part of the Arlington Public Schools district.
The current program is a combination of two earlier programs, Hoffman-Boston, a 7th through 9th grade school founded in 1972 and Woodlawn, a 10th through 12th grade program founded in 1971 by Ray Anderson, Jeffrey Kallen, Bill Hale, and others who felt a pressing need to provide a more individualized, caring environment to students.
The Hoffman-Boston Program (founded in 1972) and the Woodlawn Program (founded in 1971), contained junior high and high school programs respectively, which both embraced the idea of alternative education. Originally, Hoffman-Boston had some 169 students. Woodlawn had 69 students, grades 11 and 12, in its first year of operation, adding 10th grade and expanding to some 169 students the second year. Donald Brandewie was the founding principal of Hoffman-Boston and served for three years, after which Margery Edson became principal. Woodlawn, which was then a haven for "anti-establishment" types, had no principal. Ray Anderson served as Head Teacher and served as administrator for the program. With dwindling school populations in Arlington County in the mid-1970s, there was a belief that 9th grade should be moved up from the (then) Junior High Schools to the High Schools. This move would have impacted negatively on the two programs, so a movement started to merge, which was ordered by the School Board to take place in the fall. After a year of careful planning, discussion, and hard work by administration, staff, students, and alumni of the two programs, a comprehensive merger plan and combined philosophy was adopted, and this document served as the "blueprint" for the initial years of the combined program. The two schools joined in the former Stratford Junior High School building on Vacation Lane in the fall of 1979. (In an unrelated note, Stratford Junior High School was the first racially integrated school in Arlington, bringing an end to "Massive Resistance" in the state in the 1960s). The Stratford Junior High School building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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