I think this is an average school. it has a lot of diversity which isnt always a good thing. Most of the teachers are great but are really hard. Our sports team is average and our administration is very stricked
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Posted by a student on 10/24/09
The kids are great and so are the staff. It's ethnically diverse with so many great learning opportunities.
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Posted by a parent on 09/16/09
i currently attend Annandale High School and I love it. It has a really great learning environment and the teachers are ridiculously hard but (for the most part) are willing to help you if you ask. They have a great choral program (I'm a little biased) and great sports teams. The diversity is overstated.
... Read more I'm often the only black person in my classes (especially the advanced ones) but race doesn't seem to be a big issue in our school. We don't have cliques so all in all, I'd say my school is pretty great (aside from the fact that our mascot is the ATOMS) =D Read less
Posted by a student on 12/21/08
I have had one graduate and one child presently at Annandale. It's a good school but you need to guide your children into the IB program (not necessarily diploma) to ensure they get the best education possible. The rigor in IB is on par with AP so the students are ready for college if the apply themselves
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Posted by a parent on 10/26/08
Well, what I think is..what matters is how hard the student tries. My friend, a 2008 graduate, went to a very good school, Harvard. Many people thinks that AHS has very low priority, but that is not true. AHS is one of the great schools out there, and students and teachers are very hard-working. I want
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Posted by a student on 09/02/08
Yes, Annandale High School has many students from different cultural and economic backgrounds, and it has an IB program. The two never intersect. The majority of IB kids are upper middle class and white, and the whole diploma program breeds a sense of elitism among the students that everyone refuses
... Read more to acknowledge. Still, you learn a lot from the program and you can get a shiny diploma on your wall when you're at your fall semester of college. The teachers run the gamut from good to bad, same with administrators and guidance counselors. Hopefully somebody had the same guidance counselor for at least two years, because I didn't. But overall. it's highs are very high, it's lows very low, so it evens out. More highs than lows thankfully. Read less
Posted by a student on 03/25/08
ok ok ok i went to annandale hs from 03-06 no one says anything really about what really happens i was a bad kid at the school and in schools of nova annadale was #1 comparing to t.c williams,jeb stuart,falls church,and probably fairfax. Before it had plenty of problems with gangs-why do you think gang
... Read more task force started in annandale and then moved to other highschools. other than that the teachers arent really that good and nowadays they use extreme measures to deal with problems students i know someone who did graffiti with a perm. marker and got a 10 day suspension and recommendation for expulsion from all of Fairfax County schools-in my day they would have made u jus spend time in detention or sat. school cleaning it up or paying for it and that was it. john ponton is not a good principal at all Read less
Posted by a student on 03/15/08
Well I have been going to annandale hs for about 3 years this september. I will be a senior. The school is very nice. I take all ap classes and the teachers are very helpfull it is a very diverse school and opens the doors to many opportunities so in my opinion this is the best school out their right
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Posted by a student on 07/24/07
I think this one of the few schools left that doesnt critisize the students by race or color . My daughter is a freshman student this year class of 2011 and she is really looking forward to attending this school coming from a latin backround. I think it is very important to stay involved with our childs
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Posted by a parent on 07/24/07
The ESOL teachers at this school are really amazing and it has a great center for immigrant parents outreach.
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Annandale schools — Annandale High School is located at 4700 Medford Dr, Annandale VA 22003. 4700 Medford Dr is in the 22003 ZIP code in Annandale, VA The school district for Annandale High School is the Fairfax County Public School District. Annandale High School is a Public school that serves grade levels 9 - 12.
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