CENTREVILLE HIGH SCHOOL (VIRGINIA)

'Centreville High School' is a public high school located in Clifton, Virginia of western Fairfax County. It is administered by Fairfax County Public Schools and currently enrolls 2,332 students in grades 9-12. The school colors are black, blue, and silver, and the school has the AP program available to students. Although the school has a Clifton address, the school is located closer to Centreville. Both Centreville and Clifton are within the attendance boundaries.

Contents

History

Demographics

Test scores

Technology

'Theatre Centreville'

'Centreville Choir'

Athletics

Notable alumni

Trivia

References

External links

History

The school originally opened as a secondary school in 1988 with grades 7-10 and an enrollment of 990 students, part of the "Superschool" idea. Superschools are no longer built in Virginia. The school was to be called Braddock Park Secondary School, due to its close proximity to Braddock Park. However, to avoid confusion with Lake Braddock Secondary School, the name was changed to Centreville Secondary School.
In 1990, county officials decided that a secondary/middle school was not needed in the area (due to the low enrollment) and Centreville became a high school. 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. Beginning in the mid-1990s, the enrollment began to increase drastically and fill the school to capacity. At one point (circa 1999-2000 school year) there were 50+ trailer classrooms. This problem was fixed when Westfield was built and opened in Fall 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, FCPS 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 schools instead of trailers.
The drastic population increase in the Centreville/Chantilly area was an unforeseeable problem which was corrected by building neighboring rival Westfield High School in 2000. However, the Centreville/Clifton area no longer had a middle school due to the changing of Centreville from a secondary/middle school to a high school in 1990, 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.

Demographics

In 2006-2007, Centreville's student body was 19.44% Asian/Pacific Islander, 5.36% Black, 7.23% Hispanic, and 65.14% White.

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 2006 for Centreville was a 1,568 (518 in Critical Reading, 541 in Math, and 509 in Writing).

Technology

Centreville is one of the most technologically advanced schools in the county^[1] . Although some of the computers are 5+ years old, Centreville has six computer labs. Each academic department also has its own wireless computer lab (laptops with wireless Internet access) as well as three wireless labs that the media center allows teachers to sign up for. There is wired and wireless network and Internet access in every room of the school, including the cafeteria. Centreville currently has 992 computers and 83 wireless access points.

'Theatre Centreville'

Centreville's theatre program, currently directed by J. Mark Rogers, has won many awards, including Cappies in several categories^[2]. The awards held by Centreville Theatre:

★ Best Song, Confrontation, ''Jekyll and Hyde'', 2007

★ Nate Rossini, Lead Actor in a Musical, ''Jekkyl and Hyde'', 2007

★ Sarah Villyard, Lead Actress in a Musical, ''Fame'', 2004

★ Eric St. Peter, Lead Actor In a Play, "Rumors", 2003

★ Best Play, ''Rumors'', 2003

★ Tony Moreno, Cameo Actor in a Musical, "The Mystery of Edwin Drood", 2001

★ Ali Miramany, Best Male Vocalist, "The Mystery of Edwin Drood", 2001

★ Best Musical, ''The Mystery of Edwin Drood'', 2001

★ Nicole McCarthy, Best Sound, "Macbeth", 2000
Centreville's theatre (the Roy A. "Skip" Maiden Theater, named for the first theatre teacher) has a seating capacity of 601 people. Centreville's program began in 1988 under the direction of Roy A. "Skip" Maiden. This program won the first State Championship for the school in Theater and went on to represent the State of Virginia at the Southeastern Theater Conference and placed First there as well. Two years later, the Centreville Theater again won the top prize in the State of Virginia for an original work entitled, "Alpha and Omega."

'Centreville Choir'

'About the Department'
Centreville's choral department is directed by Lynne L. Babcock and offers five choral classes and one after-school group.
Ensembles include: Women's Ensemble (Beginning Women's Chorus), Men's Ensemble (Beginning Men's Chorus), Concert Choir (Intermediate Mixed Chorus), Bella Voce (Advanced Women's Chorus), Symphonic Choir (Advanced Mixed Chorus), and Madrigal Ensemble (after-school, select, Advanced Mixed Chorus)
The department is growing in might and now has well over 180 members. The choirs perform Winter and Spring Concerts (Broadway Pops), as well as participating in Festival Competitions and take a spring trip each year to compete with choirs around the country. Many choral students from Centreville participate in District and All-State Honor Choirs.
Centreville is home to one of the best and strongest choral departments in the county, and its choirs have gained a superior reputation in past years under the direction of Lynne Babcock.
'Awards and Honors Held by the Centreville Choral Department'
At the most recent (2007) District Festival, Symphonic Choir, Bella Voce, Concert Choir, Women's Ensemble, and the Madrigal Ensemble received superior ratings from every judge, while Men's Ensemble received an excellent rating.
The Centreville Choral Department participated in the 2007 Fiesta-Val Invitational held in New York City. Centreville's Madrigal Ensemble, Symphonic Choir, and Bella Voce placed first in their division, while each received a superior rating from the judges. Each ensemble also earned the Champion Award for their respected category (division doesn't apply). The Centreville Men's Ensemble placed second in their division, also with a superior rating. Women's Ensemble and Concert Choir didn't compete in any division (due to the fact that Bella Voce and Symphonic Choir represented the school in the Treble Choir and Mixed Chorus category in division four), but received superior ratings in an open division. The department, as a whole, received the Grand Champion Award, which is the most prestigious award given by the Fiesta-Val Invitational.

Athletics

Centreville plays in the AAA Concorde District of the AAA Northern Region.
In 2000, Centreville won the Virginia AAA Division 6 State Football Championship.
Centreville's Men's Track team swept the Concorde District winning the Indoor and Outdoor Track and Field AAA Concorde District titles in 2005. The indoor team also won the AAA Concorde District and AAA Northern Region titles in the winter of 2006. In 2007, the Men's team won its third consecutive AAA Concorde District title.
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.
The Women's Soccer team made it to the semi-finals of the VHSL state tournament after beating Lake Braddock Secondary School for the Northern Region title.
Centreville has one of the largest high school football stadiums in the county, surpassed only by a few larger schools such as Robinson Secondary School. Centreville's stadium, named after William E. Trussell, Jr., has a capacity of about 7,000.

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 plagiarism. Blair won several awards for excellent journalism for Centreville's newspaper, the ''Sentinel''. ^[3]

★ Will Montgomery, selected by the Carolina Panthers in the seventh round (234th overall) of the 2006 NFL Draft.^[4]

★ Lindsay Czarniak After graduating Centreville High School, Lindsay Czarniak attended James Madison University and is currently a sports reporter for WRC-TV (NBC4) in Washington, DC. ^[5]

★ Seung-Hui Cho, shooter of the students and faculty killed in the Virginia Tech massacre, attended CVHS during his freshman year before transferring to Westfield High School (Fairfax County, Virginia). ^[6]

★ Amanda Guillett, actress and vocalist based in New York City. Guillett toured Japan with the New York-based Broadway musical "Rent" in 2006. ^[7]

★ Michael League, bassist and composer. League has performed with internationally acclaimed jazz and popular musicians Victor Wooten, "Snooky" Young, Bernard Wright, Bobby Sparks, Keith Anderson, Monica Mancini, and Herbie Hancock's Headhunters either as a sideman or with his own 9-piece instrumental group, Snarky Puppy, which has released two albums on SiTMoM Records. ^[8]

★ Ludacris, famous rapper for Def Jam Records, briefly attended high school here before moving to Atlanta.

Trivia

★ Centreville is often nicknamed "CVille" by its students and others in the county, usually while talking about sports but also in writing.

References

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3. Blair case study
4. Will Montgomery NFL profile
5. Linday Czarniak Biography
6. UT student attended school with VA Tech shooter
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External links

★ Centreville High School

★ Centreville PTSA

★ Centreville Athletics

★ Centreville Baseball

★ Centreville Football

★ Centreville Theatre

★ Wildcat Band

★ Centreville Wrestling

★ FCPS School Profile