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Stone Bridge High School
Stone Bridge High School is a public high school in Ashburn, VA . It is part of Loudoun County Public Schools and is located on 43100 Hay Road. It is not to be confused with Great Bridge High School , a public high school in Chesapeake, Virginia ; StoneBridge School , a coed private K-12 Christian day school also in Chesapeake; or Stone Ridge School Of The Sacred Heart , a Catholic K-12 girls school in Bethesda, Maryland . Stone Bridge High School serves the northwestern part of Ashburn, including the Ashburn Farm and Belmont Country Club communities; and some communities located in far eastern Leesburg , including the Lansdowne subdivision. HISTORY Stone Bridge opened in 2000 , with its student body coming from Broad Run High School and Loudoun County High School . It was also notable that Stone Bridge opened the same year as two other Northern Virginia schools, Forest Park Senior High School opened in Prince William County, and Westfield High School opened in Fairfax County; all three schools regularly played against each other in many sports in their inaugural year. The principal is Mr. James Person, who has been there since the school opened. During the first year, there were nearly 1,200 students from 9th through 11th grade; seniors stayed at Broad Run or Loudoun County. There were also nearly 500 8th graders housed at Stone Bridge during the 2000-2001 school year because of overcrowding at Harper Park Middle School , the feeder middle school at that time. In 2002, all of Stone Bridge's Leesburg student body (except for Lansdowne residents) were moved to Heritage High School dropping enrollment, but some additional students from Broad Run were moved to Stone Bridge, dropping enrollment to roughly 1,400 students in the 2002-2003 school year. However, by the 2004-2005 school year, the student body went up to nearly 1,900 students, the biggest enrollment at the time for a Loudoun County high school. In 2005, Briar Woods High School 's opening helped alleviate crowding, but the student body remained at above the building's capacity of 1,600 students due to the area's fast growth. DEMOGRAPHICS Stone Bridge High School's student body is 75% White; 9% Black; 6% Hispanic; and 9% Asian. ENROLLMENT HISTORY TEST SCORES Stone Bridge High School is a fully accredited high school based on the Standards Of Learning tests in Virginia since its opening in 2000. The average SAT score in 2005 for Stone Bridge High School was 1,079 (538 in Verbal; 541 in Math), a 31 point jump over their 2004 average. EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES Music Stone Bridge has a strong band program, with three concert bands, a marching band, a jazz ensemble, and two jazz lab bands, which are full size jazz ensembles that meet before school. The band program at Stone Bridge has won many accolades over its six year history both locally and on annual tours. Stone Bridge has regularly had multiple students make the All-Virginia Band and Orchestra each year, which is comprised of the finest high school musicians in the Commonwealth. The choir program is also made up of several groups, including a concert choir, treble choir, chamber singers, and a jazz choir which sometimes performs with the jazz ensemble. They also have won many accolades over the years and Stone Bridge regularly has students in the All-Virginia Choir annually. Since Loudoun County Public Schools opened a string program in the middle schools in 2002 to 6th graders, Stone Bridge and the other nine Loudoun high schools now also have string ensembles starting in the 2005-2006 school year during the school day. As the string program continues to grow, as well as Loudoun County in general, there will be a full orchestra program at Stone Bridge as well. Debate Stone Bridge competes in the Liberty District of the Northern Region for debate competitions. These are the same districts that Stone Bridge athletics are in, because debate is sponsored by the Virginia High School League . The debate program has been very competitive recently, and won the 2005 AA Debate State title. ATHLETICS The Mascot is a Bulldog and the sports teams currently play in the AAA Liberty District and Northern Region after 5 years of competition in the AA Northwestern and AA Dulles Districts and Region II . Stone Bridge has won three state titles, two for cheerleading (AA champion in 2004 and AAA champion in 2005), and one AA title for girl's soccer in 2005. Reclassification Controversy Before the 2005-2006 to 2006-2007 redistricting cycle, Stone Bridge originally anticipated to continue play in the Dulles District because of the opening of Briar Woods High School, which is comprised almost completely of Stone Bridge students. However, future enrollment projections determined that Stone Bridge would still be a AAA school with over 1,600 students in the 2005-2006 year. Former fellow member Loudoun Valley was also determined to be AAA in the 2005-2006 cycle, and both schools were recommended to be placed in the Northern Region, but Stone Bridge was placed in the Liberty District, and Valley in the Concorde District. Stone Bridge (as well as Valley) appealed the decision citing distance reasons, trying to remain in the Dulles, but the appeal was denied for both schools. Many Northern Region schools, including McLean and Jefferson were adamantly against Stone Bridge being placed in the Northern Region because of distance reasons. For a brief time, Stone Bridge and Valley were considered to be placed in the AAA Cedar Run District of the AAA Northwestern Region , but their members also did not want them because of distance reasons. The VHSL ordered the Northern and Northwestern Regions, as well as Region II (where Stone Bridge was previously) to make a plan to allow Stone Bridge and Loudoun Valley to play in Group AAA in some form. The end result was that Valley would play in the National District as a playoff only member in all sports except football where they were full members. Stone Bridge was designated as a full member of the Liberty District instead of a playoff only member because the members are still relatively close to Stone Bridge's location. Football Stone Bridge is best known for their football program, which is consistently one of the strongest teams in Northern Virginia , along with Robinson Secondary School , C.D. Hylton High School , Westfield High School , and Centreville High School . Unlike the other Northern Virginia football powerhouses, Stone Bridge did not play in Group AAA until 2005, and many schools did not think the Bulldogs would be very competitive. However in their inaugural season in AAA, the Bulldogs won the Liberty District Title with a 7-0 district record, won the Northern Region Division 5 title, and advanced to the AAA Division 5 championship game, losing to Hampton High School 15-8. Their only other loss was on the road to fellow Northern Region member Oakton High School , who won the AAA Division 6 championship. Stone Bridge previously earned the Region II titles for AA Division 4 football in both 2003 and 2004. Cheerleading Though football is the most popular sport at Stone Bridge, its most successful program has been its competition cheerleading team, which has enjoyed a very high level of success since 2000. In the 2000-2001 season in its first ever competition, the Bulldogs placed third in the AA Northwestern District tournament and earned the last spot to the regional tournament, despite the fact that most of its cheerleaders were not on varsity squads the year before. The Bulldogs also had a strong showing in the 2000-2001 AA Region II Cheer tournament, but were fourth place, or one spot away from the AA Cheer tournament. Since then, Stone Bridge won five district cheerleading titles, including each of the first AA Dulles District titles from 2002-2005, as well as the 2005-2006 AAA Liberty District cheerleading title. The Bulldogs have also advanced to the AA Cheer tournament every year from the 2001-2002 to the 2004-2005 school year, earning fourth place or better out of 15 schools, including winning the 2004-2005 AA Cheer title, and in 2005-2006 won the AAA Cheer title. The Stone Bridge High School cheerleading team is the first team to win consecutive state titles in a sport in different classifications. It is also only the second high school team to advance to a state championship game or match in consecutive years while in different classifications since at least the 2000's; the other team to do so was the Cave Spring High School boys basketball team, which won the AAA title in 2001-2002, but lost the AA championship game in 2002-2003. Many members of the Stone Bridge cheerleading team have gone on to college teams, including teams at the University Of Virginia and Virginia Tech . Rivalries Stone Bridge's primary rival school is Broad Run High School , which is about two miles away. Though both schools are currently in different VHSL districts, they still regularly play against each other in most sports, a notable exception being football. Stone Bridge also has had rivalries with other Loudoun County schools, such as Park View for football and Loudoun County for girl's basketball when it was a AA school. Since their reclassification to Group AAA, Stone Bridge does not have a true rival in the Liberty District, because most of the schools already in the Northern Region have been established there for many years and already enjoy very strong rivalries. One exception is Jefferson which is also new to the Liberty District, but it is not a comprehensive high school; this may possibly be why they do not have a rival school. Stone Bridge and Jefferson are also over 30 miles apart and are not really rivals. However because Stone Bridge has already enjoyed success in AAA in football, girls' volleyball, and swimming, other established Northern Region programs are looking forward to challenge the Bulldogs for years to come. |
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