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Which Middle Schools Sends The Most to TJ?

Of the 3,121 students who applied to Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, 76 percent of applicants were from Fairfax County.

For the second consecutive year, the majority of students accepted to the incoming freshman class at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJHSST or TJ) will come from middle schools in Herndon and Falls Church.

According to data from Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS), Carson Middle School in Herndon had the most students accepted, a total of 64, for the class of 2017. Longfellow Middle School in Falls Church and Rocky Run Middle School in Chantilly each had 55 students accepted.

Last year, 76 students were admitted from Carson and 72 from Longfellow.

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Langston Hughes Middle School had 85 students apply and 18 students were accepted to TJ this year.

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A this year, according to statistics released  by FCPS last week. Seventy-six percent of those students are from Fairfax County schools.

Carson also had the highest number of students apply to TJ this year, a total of 217, followed closely by Longfellow, which had 214 students apply to the governor's school.

Middle School Students Applied Students Admitted ALC-Montrose Under 10 Under 10 Carson 217 64 Cooper 30 Under 10 Franklin 41 Under 10 Frost 105 21 Glasgow 66 Under 10 Hayfield 32 Under 10 Herndon 45 Under 10 Holmes 43 Under 10 Hughes 85 18 Irving 53 Under 10 Jackson 88 15 Key 43 Under 10 Kilmer 169 38 Lake Braddock 149 21 Lanier 55 Under 10 Liberty 40 Under 10 Longfellow 214 55 Poe 55 Under 10 Robinson 48 Under 10 Rocky Run 161 55 Sandburg 89 Under 10 South County 23 Under 10 Stone 31 Under 10 Thoreau 32 Under 10 Twain 82 12 Whitman 39 Under 10 Note: If fewer than 10 students were admitted from a middle school, the numbers were redacted by FCPS as containing identifiable student information which are exempt from disclosure according to state code.

For more information on admission to TJHSST, read our Patch series.


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