Robinson Secondary School

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James W. Robinson, Jr.
Secondary School
SealofRobinsonSecondarySchool.png
Address
Robinson Secondary School
5035 Sideburn Road

Fairfax
,
Virginia
22032

United States
Coordinates 38°49′01″N77°18′11″W / 38.817°N 77.303°W / 38.817; -77.303
Information
School type Public, secondary school
MottoThe Home of Champions
EstablishedMay 7, 1971;53 years ago (1971-05-07)
School district Fairfax County Public Schools
PrincipalTracey Phillips [1]
StaffApproximately 350
Teaching staff248.80 (FTE) (2016–17) [2]
Grades7–12
Enrollment3,918 (2016–17) [2]
Student to teacher ratio15.83∶1 (2016–17) [2]
Campus Suburban
Color(s)  Royal blue
  Gold
Athletics VHSL 6A, Occoquan Region
Athletics conference Patriot
Mascot Rams
NewspaperValor Dictus
YearbookAbove and Beyond
Feeder schoolsFairview Elementary School
Terra Centre Elementary School
Bonnie Brae Elementary School
Oak View Elementary
Laurel Ridge Elementary
Website robinsonss.fcps.edu

'James W. Robinson, Jr. Secondary School, commonly known as Robinson Secondary School, is a six-year public school in the Fairfax, Virginia, a Northern Virginia suburb southwest of Washington, D.C.

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Opened 53 years ago in 1971, Robinson is located south of Braddock Road near George Mason University, and is administered by the Fairfax County Public Schools. It offers the International Baccalaureate program, and has approximately 3,900 students in grades 7–12. Robinson's school colors are royal blue and gold, and the school mascot is a ram.

History

Robinson was named after Medal of Honor recipient James W. Robinson, Jr., the first resident of Virginia to be awarded the medal during the Vietnam War. Sergeant Robinson, age 25, was fatally wounded under heroic circumstances in South Vietnam fifty-eight years ago in April 1966, while serving in the infantry in the U.S. Army. [3]

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Robinson Secondary School

The school opened its doors in September 1971, taking its students from Fairfax, W.T. Woodson, Oakton, and West Springfield high schools. It was the second of Fairfax County's "secondary schools," or "superschools," which housed grades 7–12. Lake Braddock, which opened two years later in 1973, was the third of these schools from this era. The first was Hayfield, near Mount Vernon, which opened in 1968, and the most recent is South County in Lorton, which opened in 2005, taking its students from former Hayfield territory. South County has since reverted to high school status with the opening of South County Middle School near the school's athletic gym.

Awards and recognitions

Robinson won the 2018–19 Wells Fargo Cup race, [4] [5] which is presented annually to Virginia public high schools that have "demonstrated extraordinary success in academic activities throughout the year". This is the first time Robinson has won the Wells Fargo Cup for Academics. [6] [7] [8]

Demographics

For the 2018–19 school year, Robinson's grade 9–12 student body was 59.05% White, 13.69% Asian, 14.66% Hispanic, 5.89% Black and 6.71% other races. [9] The grade 7–8 student body was 57.46% White, 13.27% Asian, 14.92% Hispanic, 6.68% Black and 7.67% other races. [10]

Athletics

LSD scandal

In 1991, Robinson was the center of an LSD trafficking scandal in which a drug ring sold more than 100,000 doses of LSD over two years. [11] The ring was exposed when a 16-year-old Robinson student shot and wounded a Fairfax police officer. [12] In the course of the investigation it was revealed that six Robinson and Lake Braddock graduates were receiving large quantities of the drug through the mail. [13] One of the men who was facing the harshest penalties faked suicide and fled the area, only to be caught two years later in St. Louis and sentenced to 24 years in prison with no possibility of parole. [14]

Notable alumni

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Entrance to the school

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