Woodgrove High School
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36811 Allder School Road Purcellville, Virginia- 20132 |
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| Coordinates | 39°9′25.5″N 77°43′43.4″W / 39.157083°N 77.728722°WCoordinates: 39°9′25.5″N 77°43′43.4″W / 39.157083°N 77.728722°W |
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| School type | Public high school |
| Motto | Work Honor Strive |
| Founded | 2010 |
| School district | Loudoun County Public Schools |
| Principal | William S. Shipp |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Enrollment | 1,548 |
| Language | English |
| Campus | Rural |
| Color(s) | Navy Blue, Green, White |
| Athletics conference |
Dulles District Region II |
| Mascot | Wolverines |
| Nickname | HS-3 Western Loudoun High School |
| Rival | Loudoun Valley High School |
| Communities served |
Purcellville Lovettsville Hillsboro Waterford Round Hill Bluemont |
| Feeder schools | Waterford Elementary, Kenneth W. Culbert Elementary, Hillsboro Elementary, Lovettsville Elementary, Mountain View Elementary, Round Hill, Elementary, and Harmony Middle School |
| Website | http://www.lcps.org/Woodgrove |
Woodgrove High School (also known as HS-3 or the Western Loudoun High School) is a public secondary school which opened in Purcellville, Virginia for the 2010-2011 school year on the Fields Farm, bordering the northern part of the town. Woodgrove is part of Loudoun County Public Schools and opened in the same year as Tuscarora High School of Leesburg.
Woodgrove was planned on around 2000 to alleviate overcrowding primarily at Loudoun Valley High School, where the student population has doubled since the 1995-1996 school year. In 2005, the Loudoun County School Board approved the use of Fields Farm, a property north of the Town of Purcellville on County land, but in an urban growth zone jointly controlled by the Town and the County, known as PUGAMP. The town of Purcellville was not pleased with the decision, because of traffic concerns and also because it was expected to provide essential services to the new high school, despite being located outside of the Town. The School Board claimed that the high school's best location was in Fields Farm, and on June 20, 2006, the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors voted 6-3 to start construction of Woodgrove on Fields Farm. The Town of Purcellville pursued legal action in court to stop its construction with a Richmond legal firm; the case is still pending in Court. In July 2006, the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors reexamined the possibility of opening Woodgrove in Round Hill, but efforts were unsuccessful.
In February 2007, Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) began its standard procedure for drawing boundary lines which would split Loudoun Valley into two high schools. Land construction still did not start on Fields Farm due to the lawsuit filed by Purcellville. LCPS also acknowledged that because of the lawsuit, they would file a special construction exemption to expedite construction of the school, but still "split" Loudoun Valley into two schools in the 2008-2009 school year.
According to LCPS, if Loudoun Valley was not split into two schools by 2008, students who move to the area may be forced to attend Briar Woods High School or Freedom High School because the school would be at maximum capacity then. Briar Woods and Freedom at the time would not have student populations at capacity for at least two school years.
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