News: Loudoun County Public Schools 2010-11 Enrollment Figures Show Newest Schools Growing Fastest

(Oct. 29, 2010) - The Loudoun County Public Schools enrollment figures for 2010-11, as based on the Sept. 30 enrollment count taken annually, shows that the county's two high schools opened in 2005 -- Briar Woods and Freedom -- have become two of the largest and that the two newest high schools -- Tuscarora and Woodgrove -- will soon have more students than the high schools it primarily drew students from -- Heritage and Loudoun Valley.

Freedom at 1,816 students trails only Stone Bridge (1,917) in enrollment. Briar Woods is the fourth largest currently at 1,600 students, some 83 less than neighbor Broad Run. All four of those schools draw from a midcounty section of Loudoun running from South Riding in the south up through Brambleton, Broadlands, Ashburn to Lansdowne.

Freedom and Broad Run are slated to join Stone Bridge at the AAA level in the next two-year cycle that starts in 2011-12. Briar Woods will be one of the largest AA schools in the state, especially if you look at the school's two youngest classes and project enrollment out.

Tuscarora opened with 1,097 students and Woodgrove has 1,104 students. Those new schools lowered student population dramatically at two schools that have to play this entire school year in the larger AAA classification for athletics -- Heritage at 1,327 and Loudoun Valley at 1,338.

Looking at the fact that Tuscarora has 823 students in freshman and sophomore classes combined and Woodgrove 753, these new schools will quickly catch up to Heritage (565 underclassmen) and Loudoun Valley (515).

If Heritage and Loudoun Valley were in the smaller classification AA Dulles District this season for athletics, the two schools would be roughly the same size as Dominion (1,335) and Park View (1,327) and smaller than Briar Woods, Broad Run, Freedom, Loudoun County (1,411) and Potomac Falls (1,504).

Sept. 30 Enrollment Figures for Loudoun County Public Schools
Stone Bridge 1,917
Freedom 1,816
Broad Run 1,683
Briar Woods 1,600
Potomac Falls 1,504
Loudoun County 1,411
Loudoun Valley 1,338
Dominion 1,335
Heritage 1,327
Park View 1,327
Woodgrove 1,104
Tuscarora 1,097

Underclassmen (freshman and sophomore classes combined)
Freedom 971
Stone Bridge 959
Briar Woods 910
Broad Run 904
Tuscarora 823
Woodgrove 753
Potomac Falls 737
Park View 689
Loudoun County 674
Dominion 668
Heritage 565
Loudoun Valley 515