Centreville High School
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Centreville High School
| Established | 1988 |
|---|---|
| School type | Public school |
| Principal | Sharon Tompkins |
| Location | Clifton, VA |
| Enrollment | 2310 |
| Athletic Conference | Concorde District, Northern Region |
| Colors | Blue, Black, Silver |
| Mascot | Wildcats |
| Rival Schools | Westfield High School, Chantilly High School |
| Homepage | Official Site |
Centreville High School is a public high school located in Clifton, Virginia of western Fairfax County.
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History
The school originally opened as a secondary school in 1988 with grades 7-10, part of the "Superschool" idea. Superschools are no longer built in Virginia. The first senior class graduated in 1991.
The school used to be called the "Trailer Park" because of all the trailers, a result of overcrowding. At one point (Approximately 1998) there were 30 trailer classrooms. This problem was fixed when Westfield was built in 2000. A few trailers are still present at Centreville, along with a modular addition called the Mod. The Modular addition should not be confused with the few trailers Centreville still has, as it fits several classrooms into one building, along with bathrooms and four entrances. For many years, Fairfax County Public Schools had been installing external trailer classrooms when the interior capacity of the school building was not sufficient. Now, FCPS is installing more modular buildings at high schools instead of trailers.
The drastic population increase in the Centreville/Chantilly area was an unforseeable problem which was corrected by building neighboring rival Westfield High School in 2002. However, the Centreville/Clifton area no longer had a middle school, and students were bused to Rocky Run Middle school, nearly six miles away. Liberty Middle School, built in 2002, corrected this problem. Unfortunately, Westfield is currently extremely overcrowded and has more than 40 trailer classrooms.
Their new principal started in the 2006/2005 school year, Mr. Campbell. his previous job happened to be principal at westfeilds high school, cville's rivalry. But in 2006 he transfered most likely due to the fact that his son, Christopher Campbell, was a starting freshman. Mr. Campbell holds a strong relationship with his son just like he did with his own father when he was in highschool, who was also his principal.
"I once shared a locker room with Arnold Schwarzenegger." -Principal Campbell
Demographics
In 2005-2006, Centreville's student body was 53% White; 11% Black; 10% Hispanic; and 26% Asian.
Test Scores
Centreville High School is a fully accredited high school based on the Standards of Learning tests in Virginia. The average SAT score in 2005 for Centreville was a 1,104 (541 in Verbal; 563 in Math).
Technology
Centreville is one of the most technologically advanced high schools in the county. The school has 4 computer labs that teachers may reserve for their classes, multiple wireless labs, (carts with wireless laptops that may be taken to a classroom, instead of taking the class to the computer lab) and several computer classes having their own computer labs. The entire school has wireless network and internet access.
Sports
Centreville plays in the AAA Concorde District of the AAA Northern Region.
In 2000 Centreville won the Virginia AAA Division 6 State Football Championship.
During the Fall 2005 football season, the Wildcats were unable to defeat the Westfield Bulldogs, but they did defeat the then-number-one-ranked-in-the-state school, Robinson Secondary School.
Centreville has one of the largest high school football stadiums in the county, surpassed only by Robinson Secondary School.
Notable Alumni
- Kristi Lauren Glakas, Triple Crown winner, Miss Virginia Teen USA 1999, Miss Virginia USA 2004 and Miss Virginia 2005 (3rd runner-up to Miss America 2006
- Jayson Blair, former New York Times journalist accused of plagarism. Blair won several awards for excellent journalism for Centreville's newspaper, the Sentinel.
- Will Montgomery, selected by the Carolina Panthers in the seventh round (234th overall) of the 2006 NFL Draft.
- Christopher Bridges aka Ludacris, yes the famous rapper did attend this high school for his sophomore year.
Trivia
- Centreville is often nicknamed "CVille" by its students and others in the county, usually while talking about sports but also in writing.
- Centreville is serviced by 30 buses daily. FCPS has the largest bus system in the United States.
- The former principal, Peter Noonan, was recently promoted to Cluster Superintendent and an assistant principal is the interim principal while another principal is selected
- The joke across the county is that the pool is on the fourth/fifth floor of Centreville. Of course, there is no pool; Centreville is not that tall.
- Most schools in FCPS are only one or two stories tall. Centreville is three stories tall.
- Centreville was ranked 98th in Newsweek's listing of the best schools in America.
