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Longfellow Sends 55 Students to Thomas Jefferson High
Longfellow Middle School in Falls Church has the second highest number of students accepted to the prestigious and competitive Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology.
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 just three Fairfax County middle schools.
One of those schools is Longfellow Middle School, which is in the "Cluster 1" pyramid—students from Longfellow usually attend Langley or McLean high schools.
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.
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Last year, 76 students were admitted from Carson and 72 from Longfellow.
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- Thomas Jefferson High School Acceptance Rate at 15.3 Percent for Class of 2017
- Which Middle School Sends the Most Students to TJHSST?
A total of 3,121 students applied to TJ 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 school.
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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