Tuscarora High School is a public high school located in Leesburg, a town in

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, and is part of

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. The school opened in the 2010–2011 school year and consists of students from Leesburg and Lucketts.

History

Tuscarora opened in the fall of 2010. The school was originally planned to open for the 2008–2009 school year, but site acquisition delays caused the school to open two years later than planned. Until the 2012 school year, with the opening of

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, Tuscarora was the largest high school in Loudoun County with a capacity of 1,800 students. Pamela Croft is the first and current principal at Tuscarora.

Academics

Tuscarora High School is fully accredited. The school received the "accredited with warning" rating in the 2014–2015 school year for achieving below the standard on math benchmarks. This is the second time the school missed full accreditation for failing to meet the 75% pass rate required on state standardized tests. The school received full accreditation in 2016. Tuscarora offers

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courses through

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Demographics

The student body makeup is 52 percent male and 48 percent female, and the total minority enrollment is 41 percent.

Band

The Marching Huskies marching band is renowned statewide for its quality, creativity and precision in competition, in spite of its relative small size. The Tuscarora Marching Band is a four-time state champion, most recently as the VMBC Class 1A champions in 2023. Benjamin Williams was the first band director of Tuscarora. The current band director is McKenzie Durgin. The Marching Huskies band represented Virginia in the 2015 and 2023

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Day Parade in

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Sports

In Fall 2014, the Tuscarora Girls Cross Country team won the first ever state championship for the school. In November 2017, the girls won their 3rd Class 5A State Title in 4 years. The Tuscarora Girls Soccer team won the 2023 VHSL Class 4 state championship, the program's first.

Enrollment history

Notable alumni

* Fletcher Westphal (2024), college football offensive tackle for the

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References

External links

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Loudoun County Public Schools website
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