Readers’ Choice: Best High School in Fairfax County
Show some school pride and vote for your alma mater.
Update: You nominated eleven high schools across Fairfax County, and now, five have moved on to the voting round of Patch's Readers' Choice 2012.
Here's your chance to put your money (er -- vote) where your mouth is. Cast a vote for Centreville (Centreville), George C. Marshall (Falls Church/Vienna), Madison (Vienna), McLean (McLean) or South Lakes (Reston) High Schools to help crown a winner.
Voting opens July 23 and continues through 11:59 p.m. Aug. 17. Only one vote per user — tell your friends and family to log on to pick their favorite, too!
Original: Fairfax County is home to some of the best high schools in the country — not the least being Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, which was ranked no. 2 in the country by U.S. News earlier this year.
But there’s more to great high schools than national magazine rankings. Awesome teachers, school spirit and myriad other factors count.
So you tell us -- which high school in Fairfax County is the best? Only one can be crowned the Patch Readers’ Choice Best High School.
We’ll keep accepting nominations through July 9. After that, nominations will be closed and we’ll start the voting, so make sure to get in your favorites now.
All you need to do to nominate a high school is to add it in the comments below. If you already see the one you want to nominate, make sure to add your comment about why it should be included, because we may not be able to add all high schools in the county to our poll and we want to make sure the top ones make it into the poll.
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Nisa
7:07 pm on Monday, June 18, 2012
SOUTH LAKES!!!
Jafar
7:21 pm on Monday, June 18, 2012
South lakes!!!
Isabel
7:26 pm on Monday, June 18, 2012
SOUTH LAKES, DUH.
Aalliiee Marie
7:45 pm on Monday, June 18, 2012
SOUTH LAKES, HOME OF THE SEAHAWKS AND DARN PROUD OF IT!
Heather
9:02 pm on Monday, June 18, 2012
Marshall of course!
Petra Engle
9:03 pm on Monday, June 18, 2012
Madison! Go Warhawks!! It's a great school.
Jonathan
9:06 pm on Monday, June 18, 2012
Mclean
Marcella Walsh
9:08 pm on Monday, June 18, 2012
Madison!
Donna Medric
9:53 pm on Monday, June 18, 2012
Marshall!!
Ryan McElveen
10:07 pm on Monday, June 18, 2012
Probably not allowed to take sides, but my vote is for Marshall!
Beth Slucher
10:17 pm on Monday, June 18, 2012
Paul VI Catholic High School, of course
Bert Katz
11:10 pm on Monday, June 18, 2012
South Lakes
Mary Wilmoth
10:19 am on Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Annandale!!!!!
Laurie Dodd
10:44 am on Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Thomas Jefferson!
Judy Rivera
1:19 pm on Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Centreville!!!!
Kellie Peterson
2:33 pm on Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Centreville High School! Home of the Wildcats!
Susan
4:01 pm on Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Robinson - BEST teachers!
Sharon
4:08 pm on Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Centreville!!!
HardHatMommy
9:00 pm on Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Tie between Marshall and Madison
Alana Peters
7:32 pm on Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Oakton High School
Mary T
7:41 pm on Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Madison!
Katherine Rogers
9:18 pm on Thursday, June 21, 2012
McLean High School - because of Physics teacher and creator of Project Enlightenment, Dean Howarth.
Katherine Rogers
9:21 pm on Thursday, June 21, 2012
Dean Howarth is an outstanding teachers and has influenced and enlightened so many students in the Sciences and Arts. He is why McLean High School is the very best school in Fairfax County.
Dave C.
9:08 am on Friday, June 22, 2012
WOW! Dean Howarth still teaches at McLean?? He was my physics teacher way back in 1995!
Dave C.
9:05 am on Friday, June 22, 2012
McLean High School was and is the best! To be fair though, it was the only high school I ever went to. :)
Chris
8:49 am on Sunday, June 24, 2012
Annandale!!
R.
11:40 am on Saturday, July 7, 2012
Marshall -- so many things going on under one roof -- the business school, the vocational center, handicapped center, IB program, AP classes -- it's all there and doing well.
Alden
2:29 pm on Monday, July 9, 2012
Mount Vernon Marshalls all the way. Talk about a turnaround. With a focused and engaged principal, students who perform well on standardized tests and top-notch performance (band and chorus) and athletics programs, the school is far and away one of the best.
Groovis Maximus
6:09 pm on Monday, July 9, 2012
Madison!
Susan Sather
7:31 pm on Tuesday, July 10, 2012
South Lakes!
Josephine L. Brown
11:31 am on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
South Lakes of course!
Janet Day
6:32 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Go Seahawks!
Leann Yoder
10:00 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
South lakes!!!
Jennifer Davis Heffner
10:44 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
SLHS! Home of the Seahawks and darn proud of it!
Beth Tecala
9:18 am on Friday, August 3, 2012
Marshall!
carol
9:54 am on Friday, August 3, 2012
Marshal - small school big heart
Mary Hagopian
10:16 am on Friday, August 3, 2012
Marshall! Go Statesmen!
Erica R. Hendry
10:46 am on Friday, August 3, 2012
Thanks for the votes everyone. As a reminder: Only votes in the poll above count for this round (but please keep commenting to convince other readers why they should vote for your school!). Voting is open until Aug. 17.
MJ Andres
10:59 am on Friday, August 3, 2012
Marshall!
Barbara scott
11:39 am on Friday, August 3, 2012
Marshall without a doubt!
Nancy Cintorino
12:16 pm on Friday, August 3, 2012
Marshall!!
Kathy DeLucia
1:15 pm on Friday, August 3, 2012
Marshall!!!
jody toser
2:53 pm on Friday, August 3, 2012
Marshall! It's a small school with a BIG heart. The principal, faculty and students are supportive of each other--a winning combination!
Miriam Kreykes
4:57 pm on Friday, August 3, 2012
Marshall!!!
Sandra Frederick
8:47 pm on Friday, August 3, 2012
Go Madison! Go Warhawks!
A
9:44 pm on Friday, August 3, 2012
Marshall all day!
DW
9:01 pm on Monday, August 6, 2012
Where is Langley, they have higher test scores than any of these schools!!!!!
Karen Goff
10:04 pm on Monday, August 6, 2012
DW - The contest was open for reader nominations in June. These are the schools that the readers nominated.
Lorraine O'Reilly
9:02 pm on Saturday, August 11, 2012
DW test sxores are not all that make a school the best. I think that good teachers and well rounded students involved in meaningful extra-curricular activites are what make a school a great place to lean. Madison offers that. Go Warhawks!!!
Josephine L. Brown
11:36 am on Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Not about the test scores, about the best place to be, best teachers, students and wonderful environment! Home of the Seahawks and darn proud of it!
Kath
1:08 pm on Thursday, August 16, 2012
Marshall. I went straight to college after my junior year because Marshall had such a good rep. That was many years ago so I can't speak to today's Marshall, but historically it was the best! It laid a great foundation for my ability to excel in college and law school!
Michelle Pettis
8:50 am on Friday, August 24, 2012
Marshall!!!!!!!