Loudoun County High School
| Loudoun County High School | |
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 Loudoun County High School
Loudoun County High School
Loudoun County High School
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415 Dry Mill Road, SW Leesburg, Virginia 20175 |
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| School type | Public high school |
| Founded | 1954 |
| School district | Loudoun County Public Schools |
| Superintendent | Dr. Eric Wiliams |
| Principal | Michelle Luttrell |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Enrollment | 1,483 (2014) |
| Language | English |
| Campus | Suburban |
| Color(s) | Navy Blue and Gold |
| Mascot | Raiders |
| Nickname | County |
| Communities served | Woodlea Manor Leesburg Country Club Red Cedar, Shenstone |
| Feeder schools | Catoctin Elementary, Evergreen Mill Elementary, Sycolin Creek Elementary, Fredrick Douglass Elementary, Kenneth W. Culbert Elementary, J.L. Simpson Middle School |
| Rival Schools |
Heritage High School Loudoun Valley High School Tuscarora High School |
| Athletic Conference |
Dulles District Region II |
| Website | http://www.loudoun.k12.va.us/lchs |
Loudoun County High School is a public secondary school in Leesburg, Virginia. It is located on 415 Dry Mill Road SW in the Town of Leesburg and is part of Loudoun County Public Schools. It currently serves students who live in western and southern Leesburg.
The school is the oldest operating high school in Loudoun County which opened in 1954. County has served a mostly rural population, and remained this way even after Loudoun Valley High School opened in 1963 in Purceville and then especially after [[Broad Run High School| opened in 1969 and took sections in the more suburban eastern half of the county. However, as the growth of Loudoun County hit further west beginning in the 1980s, and because of rapid growth from that time on, most of County's population has become suburban.
After over 45 years of sharing the central part of the county with Loudoun Valley, in 2000,after a large influx at Loudoun Valley, County sent most of its eastern Leesburg student base to Stone Bridge High School after its student body ballooned to 1,600 students from about 1,200 for most of the 1990s. Two years later, County fed the remainder of its eastern Leesburg student base into Heritage High School. In 2005, a small number of County students were relocated to Freedom High School and Briar Woods High School. In 2010, Tuscarora High School opened up and took County's Lucketts area students.
The mascot for the school, the Raider, was named in honor of Mosby's Raiders. The original school seal depicted the Raider on horseback with a Confederate Battleflag in his hands. This logo was changed in 1980 to the current design in the face of racial criticism over the emblem. However, when the first new gym was built and the logos were painted on the floor, the original design was accidentally used and had to be removed and repainted. Choosing the name "Raiders" rather than "Rangers" is odd since Mosby's 43rd Battalion, Virginia Cavalry was formed under the Partisan Ranger Act.
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