Heritage High School (Leesburg, Virginia)
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520 Evergreen Mill Road, SE Leesburg, Virginia 201751 |
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| Coordinates | 39°05′04″N 77°34′17″W / 39.0843556°N 77.5712951°W |
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| School type | Public High School |
| Founded | 2002 |
| School district | Loudoun County Public Schools |
| Principal | Jeff Adam |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Enrollment | 1,356 |
| Language | English |
| Campus | Suburban |
| Color(s) | Red & Black |
| Mascot | Pride |
| Communities served |
Potomac Station Travistock Farms River Creek Village of Leesburg |
| Feeder schools | Cool Spring Elementary, John W. Tolbert Jr. Elementary, Frances Hazel Reid Elementary, Ball's Bluff Elementary, Fredrick Douglass Elementary, Harper Park Middle School |
| Rival School | Loudoun County High School |
| Rival School | Tuscarora High School |
| Athletic Conference |
Dulles District 4A North Region – Conference 21B |
| Website | http://www.loudoun.k12.va.us/hhs |
Heritage High School is a public secondary school located in Leesburg, Virginia, and is part of Loudoun County Public Schools. The principal is Jeff Adam. Its naming broke the previous tradition of naming high schools with two words prior to "High School" (Loudoun County High School, Broad Run High School, etc.).
Heritage is located in the southern border of Leesburg, adjacent to J. Lupton Simpson Middle School and Evergreen Mill Elementary School. It does not serve the southern Leesburg community however, due to the very densely populated eastern section of Leesburg, which Heritage currently serves, including the Sycamore Hill, Potomac Station, Tavistock Farms, Kinkaid Forest, Red Rock, Spring Lakes neighborhood and River Creek communities.
Heritage opened in 2002 for the eastern Leesburg community, feeding most of its students from Stone Bridge High School and the rest from Loudoun County High School. It was originally expected that Simpson's 8th graders would feed into Heritage, but instead, boundary lines were drawn to have Harper Park Middle School feed into Heritage. The lines were drawn and are still drawn to the point where students who live in communities adjacent to Heritage do not go there for high school and instead go to Loudoun County High.
Like other new high schools that opened in Loudoun County before it, such as Stone Bridge and Potomac Falls, Heritage opened without a senior class, and juniors were allowed to choose which school they wanted to graduate from. Most Heritage students came from the Stone Bridge attendance area, and many rising juniors (Class of 2004) at Stone Bridge chose to stay there rather than go to Heritage. This was somewhat understandable because Leesburg students at Stone Bridge in the class of 2004 attended J.L. Simpson Middle School for 6th and 7th grade (1997–1999); went to a brand new Harper Park Middle School for 8th grade (1999–2000); went to a brand new Stone Bridge for their first two years of high school (2000–2002); and then were expected to go to another new school for their last two years. Constant boundary adjustments may have contributed to the large number of rising juniors who wished to remain at Stone Bridge. Consequently, the junior class at Heritage was only about 110 members, rather than about 250 if all juniors were required to go to the new school.
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