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Potomac Falls High School
Potomac Falls High School is a public high school in Sterling, VA . The school is part of the Loudoun County Public Schools System and is located on 46400 Algonkian Parkway. HISTORY Potomac Falls High School opened in 1997, drawing its student body from Park View High School and Broad Run High School . It was the first high school built in 21 years, with Park View opening in 1976. There were about 900 students in grades 9-11 when Potomac Falls opened. Seniors stayed at Park View or Broad Run. In 2005, it was estimated there were 485 freshmen alone. Students from Potomac Falls were fed into Dominion High School in 2003 after overcrowding at both Potomac Falls and Park View. However, growth has stabilized in Sterling since then, and there are no new high schools being planned in the area for the next few years. The basic high school design for Potomac Falls has been used for every new high school built in Loudoun County since then. Stone Bridge opened in 2000 with Potomac Falls' basic design, but with a larger auditorium. Heritage , Dominion , Briar Woods , and Freedom also use the same template. In 2005, Potomac Falls High School dropped resource and instead replaced sixth period with a new system called FLEX. In FLEX, the students first go to period 7, 2, 3, 4 (respectively) from 10:38-11:19 and then they go to period 1, 8, 5, homeroom (respectively) from 11:25 to 12:07. The two periods the students go to depend on what FLEX day it is (the periods will always be the same, if they FLEX to seventh, they will flex to first, if they FLEX to second, they will FLEX to eighth, etc.). This time is usually used for assemblies, clubs, or to fill out forms. DEMOGRAPHICS In 2005-2006, Potomac Falls' student body was 68% White; 10% Black; 11% Hispanic; and 11% Asian. TEST SCORES Potomac Falls is a fully accredited high school based on the Standards Of Learning tests in Virginia. The average SAT score in 2005 for Potomac Falls was a 1,076 (534 in Verbal; 542 in Math). ENROLLMENT HISTORY ATHLETICS The mascot is a Panther and the sports teams currently play in the AA Dulles District and Region II . At its opening, the Panthers played in the AAA Concorde District and the Northern Region , but the Panthers were at a severe disadvantage because their enrollment was considerably below the AA/AAA cutoff, and most of its member schools included some of the largest schools in the state, including Herndon and Chantilly High Schools , both schools with enrollments nearly at 2,500 students, while Potomac Falls' enrollment in the 1998-1999 school year was at around 1,200. Potomac Falls played in the Concorde District nevertheless partly because Park View and Broad Run were also in the Northern Region but played in the Liberty District at the time, and also because it was assumed that most AA sized high schools in Northern Virginia , like George C. Marshall High School , would play up in AAA. Since Potomac Falls' move to AA in 1999, they have enjoyed much success, in particular girls' soccer, which won two state AA titles. Potomac Falls has won four AA state titles, two girls soccer titles in 2000 and 2004, one in boys golf in 2001, one in boys tennis in 2002. |
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