What are some of the best schools/school districts in Fairfax County, Virginia?
…overall, it is one of the top-ranked districts nationwide. As Wikipedia says: “The county is served by the Fairfax County Public Schools system, to which the county government allocates 52.2% of its fiscal budget.[5] Including state and federal government contributions, along with citizen and corporate contributions, this brings the 2006 fiscal budget for the school system to $2.1 billion.[6] The school system has estimated that, based on the 2006 fiscal budget, the county will be spending $11,915 in each student this year.” This is the high school you will want to shoot for: The Fairfax County Public School system contains the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, a Virginia Governor’s School. TJHSST consistently ranks at or near the top of all United States high schools due to the extraordinary number of National Merit Semi-Finalists and Finalists, the high average SAT scores of its students, and the number of students who annually perform nationally recognized
