Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (also known as TJHSST, TJ, or Jefferson) is a

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. The school occupies the building of the previous Thomas Jefferson High School (constructed in 1964). A selective admissions program was initiated in 1985 through the cooperation of state and county governments, as well as corporate sponsorship from the defense and technology industries. It is one of 18 Virginia Governor's Schools, and a founding member of the National Consortium for Specialized Secondary Schools of Mathematics, Science and Technology. In 2021 and 2022, '' U.S. News & World Report'' ranked the school first in its annual "Best U.S. High Schools" list. Attendance at the school is open to students in six local jurisdictions based on academic achievement, essays, and socio-economic background. Before the 2020–21 school year, the admissions process also involved a math, reading, and science exam.

History

Thomas Jefferson High School was constructed and opened in 1964. Fairfax County Public Schools' superintendent William J. Burkholder and his staff began working on the idea of a science high school in 1983 with advice from the superintendent's business/advisory council. Burkholder announced the plans for the magnet school in January 1984. The school board chose Thomas Jefferson High School as the location for the new magnet school in June 1984 and approved the funding in February 1985. The school was originally intended to only serve

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students, but after Virginia governor

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chose Fairfax County as the location of a regional science and technology school, the school board voted to accept the funding from the state and allow students from Arlington,

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, and Prince William counties and from the Cities of Fairfax and

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to attend as well. The business community played a significant role in the creation of the school, providing around $3 million in contributions and advice on the school's curriculum.

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, and

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, among other companies, made significant contributions in equipment or finances to the school before it opened. Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology opened in fall 1985 with 400 ninth-graders and 125 seniors who were selected from 1,200 applicants. The school underwent renovations from 2013 to 2017, adding additional research labs, internet cafes, three-dimensional art galleries, a black box theater, and a dome reminiscent of President

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. The renovations costed $90 million.

Admissions

The school is part of the

system of

. Students from Fairfax, Arlington,

, and Prince William counties and from the Cities of Fairfax and

are eligible for admission. Students must be enrolled in Algebra 1 or a higher level math class in 8th grade and have a minimum GPA of 3.5 to be eligible. The admissions process is based on grade point average, a math or science related problem solving essay, a student portrait sheet demonstrating skills and character, and details about a student's socio-economic background including whether they are economically disadvantaged, a special education student, or an English language learner. Each public school is allocated a number of seats equal to 1.5% of that school's 8th grade student population; the remaining seats are unallocated and offered to the highest evaluated remaining students. During the admissions process, students are identified only by a number; admissions officers do not know their race, ethnicity, sex, or name. Before the 2020–21 school year, the admissions process also included a math, reading, and science exam.

Demographics and exam controversy

The admissions process and the demographics of the student body it produces, in particular the under-representation of

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students relative to the school system overall, have been a source of controversy throughout the school's history. After the school's early graduating classes included relatively few black and Hispanic students, FCPS created a race-based affirmative action program to admit more black and Hispanic students. The program was in effect for the admissions process for the graduating classes of 1997 through 2002; the county ended it because of legal challenges to similar programs. Following the end of this program, the share of black and Hispanic students at the school decreased from 9.4 percent in 1997–98 to 3.5 percent in 2003–04. Black and Hispanic students remained significantly under-represented at the school through the 2000s and 2010s. In 2012, a civil rights complaint against the school was filed with the

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Office of Civil Rights by ''Coalition of the Silence,'' an advocacy group led by former county School Board member Tina Hone, and the Fairfax chapter of the

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, alleging that it discriminated against black, Hispanic, and

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students. In response, the Office of Civil Rights, in September 2012, opened an investigation. In 2020, the school board made a number of significant changes to the admissions process meant to increase the ratio of black and Hispanic students admitted. These included the elimination of the application fee; the increase of the number of admitted students from around 480 to 550; the elimination of an entrance exam; the allocation of seats to each middle school equal to 1.5% of their 8th grade student population; and the addition of "experience factors" including whether students are economically disadvantaged, English language learners, or special education students. Following these changes, the proportion of black and Hispanic students admitted increased from 4.52% to 18.36% while the proportion of

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decreased from 73.05% to 54.36%. The proportion of female students admitted also increased, from 41.80% to 46.00%, and to 55.45% the next year. In March 2021, the Coalition for TJ, an advocacy group opposed to the changes and represented by the

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, sued the Fairfax County school board, alleging that the 2020 changes to the admissions process discriminated against Asian Americans. In February 2022, judge

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of the

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ruled in ''

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'' in the Coalition for TJ's favor and ordered the school to return to the previous admissions process. The school board appealed the decision to the

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and in March 2022 that court issued a stay on the order that allowed the school to continue the new admissions process while the case was pending. The

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rejected a request to vacate the stay in April 2022. The case is scheduled to be heard in the court of appeals in September 2022.

Curriculum

TJ3Sat and TJREVERB projects

The Systems Engineering Course designed and built a

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which was launched on November 19, 2013, from

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in Virginia.

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donated the CubeSat Kit to the school on December 6, 2006, and provided the launch for the satellite. After a successful launch at 8:15PM, TJ³SAT became the first satellite launched into space that was built by high school students. The launched satellite contained a 4-watt transmitter operating on

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frequencies, and a

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module to allow it to broadcast

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-encoded messages sent to it from Jefferson. TJREVERB is the school's second cubesat mission, currently scheduled to launch on CRS-26. The satellite will test Iridium satellite radio and connect to the students' groundstation via email.

Computer Systems Lab

The school's computer systems lab is one of the few high school computing facilities with a

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. In 1988, a team from the school won an ETA-10P supercomputer in the SuperQuest competition, a national science competition for high school students. The ETA-10P was damaged by a roof leak in the 1990s.

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donated a new SV1 supercomputer, known as Seymour, to the school on December 4, 2002, which is on display as of 2021. The lab also supported a number of

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thin clients for use by students enrolled in AP Computer Science. In 2008, the school received a grant from Sun Microsystems for $388,048, which was student-written. The Syslab was given 7 Sun workstations, 12 Sun servers, and 145 Sun Rays for distribution throughout the school. These were placed in the existing AP Computer Science Lab and the science classrooms, support backend services, and serve as kiosks placed around the school for guests, students, and faculty. However, the Sun Rays were taken out of the AP Computer Science Lab due to teachers' objections. By 2014, the Sun Ray clients were decommissioned, and replaced with Linux-based thin clients running LTSP. Since 2000, students have built and maintained an Intranet application used to give students access to school resources remotely, and to manage the Eighth Period program. Three iterations of the application have been developed: the original system, built in 2000 as an early PHP application; Intranet2, known as Iodine, which used object-oriented PHP; and Ion, written in Python using the Django web framework.

Awards and recognition

In 2021 and 2022, '' U.S. News & World Report'' ranked TJ as the best overall high school in the United States. It was previously ranked fourth in 2020, tenth in 2019, and sixth in 2018. In 2016, the school placed first in ''

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s annual "America's Top High Schools" rankings for the third consecutive year. The average SAT score for the graduating class of 2020 was 1528 and the average ACT score was 34.5. The school had 14 Intel Science Talent Search Semifinalists in 2007, 15 in 2009, and 13 in 2010. In 2007, for schools with more than 800 students in grades 10–12, TJ was cited as having the highest-performing AP Calculus BC, AP Chemistry, AP French Language, AP Government and Politics, U.S., and AP U.S. History courses among all schools worldwide. In 2014, 3864 AP Exams were taken by students; over 97% earned a score of 3, 4, or 5. President

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signed the

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into law on September 16, 2011, at the school. The law was made to reform U.S. patent laws. In 1997, 2000, 2013, and 2017, the

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of the school was among fifteen high-school bands invited to the Music for All National Concert Band Festival in Indianapolis.

Notable alumni

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, game designer * Praveen Balakrishnan, Chess Grandmaster * Sandra Beasley, poet *

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, fashion designer and activist * Ian Caldwell, author * Mark Changizi, theoretical cognitive scientist *

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, baseball executive *

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, mathematician and

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player * Sara Goldrick-Rab, sociologist *

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, programmer, artist, and co-founder of Feel Train * Sophia Kianni, climate activist * Andrew Kirmse, game developer and computer programmer *

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, screenwriter *

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, professional long-distance runner *

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* Jose Llana, actor * Geoffrey von Maltzahn, biological engineer, founder of Indigo Agriculture *

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, comedian *

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* Emma Pierson, computer scientist and

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* Robert Sarvis, lawyer * Monika Schleier-Smith, experimental physicist and

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