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Annandale High School
Annandale High School is a public high school in Annandale, Virginia, United States. It is part of the Fairfax County Public Schools system.
The school's student body has been recognized for its high level of racial and cultural diversity since at least the 1980s. Students derive from over 90 countries and speak more than 50 languages.
Annandale was chosen in 1998 as the site and focus of the Race Initiative Advisory Board's round-table discussions on race and education. The event was hosted by members of the board, including Thomas Kean and William Winter, and chaired by historian John Hope Franklin. The discussions were held as part of U.S. President Bill Clinton's One America Initiative.
In 2006, U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings visited Annandale to announce that a $188,000 grant would be given to Fairfax County Public Schools to expand Arabic and Chinese programs, as part of the National Security Language Initiative. At the time, Annandale students taking Arabic were among "the less than 1 per cent of high school students studying languages deemed critical."
In October 2011, AHS was again noted by the White House for its cultural diversity, hosting a visit by First Lady Michelle Obama and First Lady of South Korea Kim Yoon-ok, both of whom praised the school's widespread ethnic make-up in speeches to the student body. During her address, Michelle Obama said, “This is the perfect place for you to find out who you are and what you want to become, and that’s really what education is all about.” The visits were accompanied by a ceremony featuring Grammy-nominated violinist Jennifer Koh. At the time, Madame Kim was traveling on a state visit to the U.S. with her husband, Korean President Lee Myung-bak, who were invited as guests of honor to a White House dinner that week after Congress approved the United States–Korea Free Trade Agreement. During the 2009–2010 school year, Korean and other Asian-Americans represented 22 percent of the AHS student body.
In 2024-2025 Annandale's student body was 53.50% Hispanic, 18.18% Asian, 12.95% White, 12.66% Black and 2.71% other. During the 2024-2025 school year, 47.50% of the student body received free or reduced price lunch, the year prior it was 60.69%. 90.81% of the school was proficient in English. AHS is considered one of the most diverse schools among FCPS, itself one of the most diverse school districts in the country.
The 2009–2010 school year marked the first year that Hispanic students represented a plurality of Annandale students, and the first year in the school's history that any racial group other than White students represented a plurality within the student body.
In the aftermath of the Fall of Kabul (2021), there has been a small but growing Afghani population in Fairfax County schools including Annandale High School.
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Annandale High School
Annandale High School is a public high school in Annandale, Virginia, United States. It is part of the Fairfax County Public Schools system.
The school's student body has been recognized for its high level of racial and cultural diversity since at least the 1980s. Students derive from over 90 countries and speak more than 50 languages.
Annandale was chosen in 1998 as the site and focus of the Race Initiative Advisory Board's round-table discussions on race and education. The event was hosted by members of the board, including Thomas Kean and William Winter, and chaired by historian John Hope Franklin. The discussions were held as part of U.S. President Bill Clinton's One America Initiative.
In 2006, U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings visited Annandale to announce that a $188,000 grant would be given to Fairfax County Public Schools to expand Arabic and Chinese programs, as part of the National Security Language Initiative. At the time, Annandale students taking Arabic were among "the less than 1 per cent of high school students studying languages deemed critical."
In October 2011, AHS was again noted by the White House for its cultural diversity, hosting a visit by First Lady Michelle Obama and First Lady of South Korea Kim Yoon-ok, both of whom praised the school's widespread ethnic make-up in speeches to the student body. During her address, Michelle Obama said, “This is the perfect place for you to find out who you are and what you want to become, and that’s really what education is all about.” The visits were accompanied by a ceremony featuring Grammy-nominated violinist Jennifer Koh. At the time, Madame Kim was traveling on a state visit to the U.S. with her husband, Korean President Lee Myung-bak, who were invited as guests of honor to a White House dinner that week after Congress approved the United States–Korea Free Trade Agreement. During the 2009–2010 school year, Korean and other Asian-Americans represented 22 percent of the AHS student body.
In 2024-2025 Annandale's student body was 53.50% Hispanic, 18.18% Asian, 12.95% White, 12.66% Black and 2.71% other. During the 2024-2025 school year, 47.50% of the student body received free or reduced price lunch, the year prior it was 60.69%. 90.81% of the school was proficient in English. AHS is considered one of the most diverse schools among FCPS, itself one of the most diverse school districts in the country.
The 2009–2010 school year marked the first year that Hispanic students represented a plurality of Annandale students, and the first year in the school's history that any racial group other than White students represented a plurality within the student body.
In the aftermath of the Fall of Kabul (2021), there has been a small but growing Afghani population in Fairfax County schools including Annandale High School.
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