Football: VHSL Releases 2011-12 Divisions - Half of Loudoun's 12 Schools Shift Division

(May 31, 2011) - The Virginia High School League has released its football divisions for the next two seasons (2011 and 2012) and half of Loudoun's 12 high schools have moved either up or down a division.

Freedom and Broad Run move up to AAA Division 5 from AA Division 4 while Heritage and Loudoun Valley shift down from AAA Division 5 to AA Division 4. Both Loudoun Valley and Heritage are appealing their D4 assignment as the student enrollment numbers that were taken as part of the March 31, 2011 ADM, included the two schools large senior class that at the lower three grades is now divided between new schools Tuscarora and Woodgrove.

The appeal, Valley and Heritage argue that their true numbers should place them in Division 3, will be heard in September.

Both Dominion and Park View move up from Division 3 to Division 4, not based as much on increasing student population as the fact that Region II has fewer larger schools in it due to schools being shifted to AAA.

Remaining the same: Stone Bridge (D5), Briar Woods (D4), Potomac Falls (D4), Loudoun County (D4), Woodgrove (D3) and Woodgrove (D3).

Briar Woods has caught the biggest break in the shuffle as the Falcons, with a rapidly increasing student base of 1,594, is just 67 students less than neighbor Broad Run but Briar Woods was placed in AA in the last realignment by the VHSL. Briar Woods is the largest school in Region II by nearly 100 students, with Potomac Falls next, and is almost 270 students larger than the biggest Region I school (Chancellor with 1326 students), almost 130 larger than the largest Region II school (Amherst with 1468 students) and almost 150 students larger than the largest Region IV school (Puolaski County with 1450 students).

Loudoun's Divisions for Football
Stone Bridge (1899 students) remains Division 5
Freedom (1814 students) moves up to Division 5
Broad Run (1661 students) moves up to Division 5
Briar Woods (1594 students) remains Division 4
Potomac Falls (1498 students) remains Division 4
Loudoun County (1378 students) remains Division 4
Loudoun Valley (1313 students) moves down to Division 4
Dominion (1292 students) moves up to Division 4
Heritage (1292 students) moves down to Division 4
Park View (1289 students) moves up to Division 4
Woodgrove (1071 students) remains Division 3
Tuscarora (1061 students) remains Division 3

AA Region II Assignments
Division 4
Briar Woods - 1594
Potomac Falls - 1498
Sherando - 1479
Louisa County - 1430
Powhatan - 1395
Loudoun County - 1378
Loudoun Valley - 1313
Dominion - 1292
Heritage - 1292
Park View - 1289
James Wood - 1272
Millbrook - 1264

Division 3
Liberty - 1262
Fauquier - 1190
Monticello - 1146
Charlottesville - 1140
Fluvanna - 1131
Handley 1088
Woodgrove - 1071
Tuscarora - 1061
Western Albemarle - 1037
Kettle Run - 1031
Brentsville - 986 (projected with new school opening)
Skyline - 930
Warren County - 756

AAA Northern Region
Division 6
Westfield - 2863
T.C. Williams - 2856
Robinson - 2696
Chantilly - 2600
Annandale - 2569
Fairfax - 2404
Centreville - 2276
Lake Braddock - 2259
West Springfield - 2252
Oakton - 2248
Herndon - 2234
West Potomac - 2225
Woodson - 2109
South Lakes - 2097
Washington-Lee - 2034

Division 5
Langley - 2014
Madison - 1984
Hayfield - 1962
South County - 1948
McLean - 1923
Stone Bridge - 1899
Yorktown - 1873
Thomas Jefferson - 1806
R.E. Lee - 1786
Mount Vernon - 1740
Stuart - 1681
Edison - 1647
Marshall - 1580
Falls Church - 1511
Wakefield - 1437

AAA Northwest Region
Division 6
Battlefield - 2982
Osbourn Park - 2742
Woodbridge - 2546
Gar-Field - 2467
Stonewall Jackson - 2442
Forest Park - 2290
Hylton - 2195
Franklin County - 2164
Colonial Forge - 2053
Osbourn - 1953
Patrick Henry - 1948
Riverbend - 1917
Stafford - 1887

Division 5
Massapnax - 1874
Freedom (Prince William) - 1814
Freedom (South Riding) - 1794
Mountain View - 1760
Halifax County - 1742
Albemarle 1709
North Stafford - 1691
Broad Run - 1661
Potomac - 1655
Brooke Point - 1631
Orange - 1552
William Fleming - 1511
George Washington - 1377

By District 2011-12
Dulles District (9 schools)

Division 4

Briar Woods - 1594

Potomac Falls - 1498

Loudoun County - 1378

Loudoun Valley - 1313

Dominion - 1292

Heritage - 1292

Park View - 1289

Division 3

Woodgrove - 1071

Tuscarora - 1061

Cedar Run District (6 schools)

Division 6

Battlefield - 2982

Stonewall Jackson - 2442

Osbourn - 1953
Division 5
Freedom (South Riding) - 1794
Broad Run - 1661
**Patriot (opening in 2011 with projected enrollment 1464)

Liberty District (8 schools)

Division 6

Fairfax - 2404

South Lakes - 2097
Division 5
Langley - 2014

Madison - 1984

McLean - 1923

Stone Bridge - 1899

Thomas Jefferson - 1806

Marshall - 1580

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