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Thomas Alva Edison High School
Address
5801 Franconia Road Alexandria, Virginia 22310 United States
Information
School type	Public, high school
Motto	"As eagles we soar"
Established	1962
School district	Fairfax County Public Schools
Principal	Amanda Burke
Staff	Approximately 230
Grades	9–12
Enrollment	2,151 (2020-2021)
Campus	Suburban
Color(s)	Red, white, and navy blue
Athletics conference	National District Northern Region
Mascot	Eagles
Rivals	Hayfield Secondary School, Mount Vernon High School
Feeder schools	Mark Twain Middle School, Wendell Holmes Middle School
Website	www.fcps.edu/EdisonHS

Thomas Alva Edison High School is one of 25 high schools in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. Thomas Edison is an International Baccalaureate school.

Edison High School has traditionally been a relatively small public high school in terms of the size of its student population. It has a culturally and ethnically diverse student body. Since the mid 1990s it enrolled students of Australian, Korean, Eritrean, Vietnamese, Chinese, Thai, Cambodian, Polish, Italian, Mexican, Colombian, Ghanaian, Cameroonian, and Pakistani ancestries or nationalities. The diverse religious backgrounds of the students that have included students that identify as Buddhists, Christians, Jews, Muslim, and others. The school's diversity reflected the massive influx of immigrants to the Northern Virginia region.

In the 1990s, the school's debate and forensics teams gained widespread and even national recognition for their achievements in those fields. Its academic team has appeared on the local television quiz bowl game show It's Academic, which is broadcast by the local Washington, DC PBS affiliate station and substation, WETA PBS (main) and WETA METRO (substation).

Edison's graduates have typically moved on to attend local and state colleges and universities such as Virginia Tech, the University of Virginia, George Mason University, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Northern Virginia Community College. Prominent graduates of the school include Eric Barton, a professional football player with the National Football League.

In both 1996 and 1997 Edison's theater club won second place and then first place and the regional level of the VHSL one-act play festival.

Demographics

Presented below are some demographics for Thomas Edison during the 2021–22 school year:

Test scores

Edison High School is a fully accredited high school based on the Standards of Learning tests in Virginia. The average SAT score in 2006 for Edison was 1494 (502 in Critical Reading, 505 in Math, and 487 in Writing).

Edison Academy

The Edison Academy is a career center where 10th-12th graders can take courses based on a career they want to pursue when they finish school. It helps them build the skills they need for a successful career. Edison High School is one of the selected schools in Fairfax County to have an academy center.

One of the school-specific programs offered through the Edison Academy to eligible students is the Global STEM Challenges Program: The program at Edison includes the Global STEM Challenges Program. It is a three-year program for 9th grade to 11th graders that aims to provide hands-on science, math, and engineering experience in order to provide experience and knowledge on real-world problems and their possible solutions.

International Baccalaureate program

Edison High School is one of 33 schools in the state of Virginia to have an IB program.

Athletics

Edison participates in the AAA National District of the 6A North Region. Sports offered to students include:

• Cheerleading
• Cross country (coed)
• Field hockey
• Football
• Golf (coed)
• Volleyball
• Basketball (boys' and girls')
• Gymnastics
• Swim & dive (coed)
• Indoor track & field (coed)
• Baseball
• Lacrosse (boys' and girls')
• Soccer (boys' and girls')
• Softball
• Outdoor track & field (coed)
• Wrestling

Notable alumni

• Eric Barton, former NFL linebacker
• Charlie Hales, former mayor of Portland, Oregon
• Christopher Lowman, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Sustainment, former Under Secretary of the Army
• Andy Najar, soccer player for D.C. United and the Honduras national team
• Pat Toomay, 1966, former NFL defensive end, Super Bowl champion (VI), author

References

1. "Edison High". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved May 8, 2022.
2. "2015-16 Ethnicity, Gender, and Race Report" (PDF). Retrieved 2017-01-11.
3. "Thomas Edison High School". Retrieved 12 January 2017.
4. Pein, Corey (April 11, 2012). "The Road to Hales: Charlie Hales is running for mayor based on his record. It's full of detours, roundabouts and switchbacks". Willamette Week. Portland, Oregon. Retrieved November 25, 2012.

External links

• Website

v t e International Baccalaureate schools in Virginia
High Schools	Annandale High School Atlee High School Brooke Point High School Clarke County High School William Fleming High School Galileo Magnet High School Gar-Field Senior High School George C. Marshall High School George Mason High School Granby High School Hampton High School Hanover High School Henrico High School Heritage High School James Monroe High School John R. Lewis High School Justice High School King's Fork High School Loudoun Valley High School Martinsville High School Meadowbrook High School Mechanicsville High School Meridian High School Midlothian High School Mount Vernon High School Mountain View High School Oscar F. Smith High School Patrick Henry High School (Ashland) Princess Anne High School Robinson Secondary School Salem High School South Lakes High School Spotsylvania High School Thomas A. Edison High School Thomas Jefferson High School (Richmond) Tucker High School Unity Reed High School Virginia High School Warwick High School Washington-Liberty High School York High School
Middle Schools	Academy for Discovery at Lakewood Edgar Allan Poe Middle School Ellen Glasgow Middle School Fairfield Middle School Fred Lynn Middle School George H. Moody Middle School Hampton Middle School Jefferson-Houston K-8 School Key Middle School Langston Hughes Middle School Lucille Brown Middle School Mark Twain Middle School Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School Oliver Wendell Holmes Middle School Plaza Middle School Stuart M. Beville Middle School Thomas Jefferson Middle School Tuckahoe Middle School Unity Braxton Middle School Walker-Grant Middle School Walt Whitman Middle School
Elementary Schools	Antietam Elementary School Bevedere Elementary School Buckland Mills Elementary School Chimborazo Elementary School Dogwood Elementary School Ellis Elementary School James River Elementary School Jefferson-Houston K-8 School Mount Daniel Elementary School Mullen Elementary School Oak Street Elementary School Randolph Elementary School Rosa Parks Elementary School
Private Schools	Carlisle School The Hague School King Abdullah Academy Saint Mary's Catholic School Strelitz International Academy Trinity Episcopal School Williamsburg Christian Academy

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• High schools in Fairfax County, Virginia
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