Falls Church High School

My child loved her time at FCHS. She is academically gifted so she would have done well anywhere but the intangibles she got at FCHS were what has really helped her be the cultured, confident leader that she has become. She’s currently a senior student athlete in college who is going on for her PhD in psychology.

excellent. kid was accepted to all colleges (UVA, Tech, JMU, VCU, Radford and a few out of state) and got a full scholarship based on academics.

Sending my daughter here was one of the worst decisions of my life. She went from an all A student who received in the 1500s on her SATs without taking a class or studying to now hanging out with a very bad crowd, taking only a few classes, and no longer planning to go to college. This school ruined her life. I will forever regret moving into the Falls Church High School district. The rumors about it are all sadly true.

I had 3 children go through this school. They spanned the years 2004 - 2019. This school is a gem. It continues to surprise the people who end up attending here because everyone outside of the pyramid warns people to not attend. Like so much of our education system, people are overly obsessed about scores and the measurable standards that our pretentious culture has convinced us to care about. Meanwhile, you ask almost any student at Falls Church High School if they like their school and their answer is almost always yes. The teachers overwhelmingly love this school (look up survey from 4 years ago) - and there is a warm, caring feeling inside these walls that has existed long before people realized the effects of bullying. My youngest is now at UVA - doing well, so that addresses for me whether the education that she received was adequate, and my two older children are gainfully employed, attributing much of their success to the FCHS culture that they were lucky enough to have influence them. What a joke to see 3/10 - where can we rate Great Schools - the website that probably has done more damage to our students by ranking schools on scores.