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Centreville High School
Centreville High School is a public high school located in Clifton, Virginia of western Fairfax County . HISTORY The school originally opened as a secondary school in 1988 with grades 7-10, part of the 'Superschool" idea. "Superschools are no longer built in Virginia. The first senior graduating class finished in 1991. The school used to be called the "Trailer Park" because of all the Trailer s, a result of overcrowding. At one point (Approximately 1998) there were 30+ trailer classrooms. This problem was fixed when Westfield was built in 2000. A few trailers are still present at Centreville, along with a modular addition called the Mod. The Modular addition should not be confused with the few trailers Centreville still has, as it fits several classrooms into one building, along with bathrooms and four entrances. For many years, Fairfax County Public Schools had been installing external trailer classrooms when the interior capacity of the school building was not sufficient. Now, FCPS is installing more modular buildings at high schools instead of trailers. The drastic population increase in the Centreville/Chantilly area was an unforseeable problem which was corrected by building neighboring rival Westfield High School in 2002. However, the Centreville/Clifton area no longer had a middle school, and students were bused to Rocky Run Middle school, nearly six miles away. Liberty Middle School , built in 2002, corrected this problem. Unfortunately, Westfield is currently extremly overcrowded and has more that 40 trailer classrooms. DEMOGRAPHICS In 2005-2006, Centreville's student body was 53% White; 11% Black; 10% Hispanic; and 26% Asian. TEST SCORES Centreville High School is a fully accredited high school based on the Standards Of Learning tests in Virginia. The average SAT score in 2005 for Centreville was a 1,104 (541 in Verbal; 563 in Math). TECHNOLOGY Centreville is one of the most technologically advanced high schools in the county. The school has 4 computer labs that teachers may reserve for their classes, multiple wireless labs, (carts with wireless laptops that may be taken to a classroom, instead of taking the class to the computer lab) and several computer classes having their own computer labs. The entire school has wireless network and internet access. SPORTS Centreville plays in the AAA Concorde District of the AAA Northern Region . In 2000 Centreville won the Virginia AAA Division 6 State Football Championship. During the Fall 2005 football season, the Wildcats were unable to defeat the Westfield Bulldogs, but they did defeat the then-number-one-ranked-in-the-state school, Robinson Secondary School . Centreville has one of the largest high school football stadiums in the county, surpassed only by a few larger schools such as Woodson High School and Robinson Secondary School NOTABLE ALUMNI
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