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High school in Annandale, Virginia

Annandale High School is a public high school in Annandale, Virginia, United States. It is part of the Fairfax County Public Schools system. The school's student body has been well recognized for its high level of racial and cultural diversity since at least the 1980s. Students derive from over 90 countries and speak more than 50 languages. The school's diverse student body has been noted by multiple US presidential administrations. In 1998, AHS was chosen by President Bill Clinton's Race Initiative Advisory Board as the site and focus of round table discussions on race and education. And in October 2011, AHS was visited by First Lady Michelle Obama and First Lady of South Korea Kim Yoon ok, who spoke at a school ceremony celebrating education and the school's diverse ethnic composition. that was consistently honored as one of the top ten high school newspapers in the country from the late 1990s to 2009 by the National Scholastic Press Association and the Columbia Scholastic Press Association. Historically AHS has also had a competitive football program. The Atoms have won six state championships since 1965, and were ranked as the best high school football team in the country by the National Sports Service after completing an undefeated season in 1978.

Annandale was chosen in 1998 as the site and focus of the Race Initiative Advisory Board's round table discussions on race and education. At the time, Madame Kim was traveling on a state visit to the US with her husband, Korean President Lee Myung bak, who were invited as guests of honor to a White House dinner that week after Congress approved the Korea US Free Trade Agreement. During the 2009–2010 school year, Korean and other Asian Americans represented 22 percent of the AHS student body.

In 2011–2012, Annandale's student body was 32.28% Hispanic, 24.97% Asian, 23.97% White, 16.37% Black and 2.41% other. During the 2011–2012 school year, 51.89% of the student body received free or reduced price lunch. 74.79% of the school was proficient in English. The A Blast, in 2009, had adopted a new multimedia program which trains journalism students to create projects pertaining to the news around Annandale High School, and is currently in its fourth production year. The A Blast is a The Washington Post Young Journalists Development Program Paper. The paper's writers and editors receive publishing and content related guidance from Post professional staff, and periodically visit The Washington Post headquarters in Washington, D. C., for collaborative workshops. A Blast editors regularly participate in Post programs for high school students, including the High School Writing Seminar and the High School Journalism Workshop. The A Blast is printed on The Washington Post press in Springfield, VA. After an undefeated season in 1978, Annandale ended the year ranked #1 in the nation by the National Sports Service. Annandale won Patriot District titles in 2005, 2006,2007, and 2009 (shared with West Springfield High School), but the Atoms fell to their first round opponents each year.

Opening its doors in 1954, Annandale High School had 1,000 students, ranging in grades eight eleven. During this time, the students voted to call themselves "Atoms" after the influence from president Dwight D. Eisenhower's speech called "Atoms for Peace." In the late 1980s, Annandale High School was involved in the creation of the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJHSST), ranked as the best high school in the country in 2010 by U. S. News & World Report. TJHSST is one of 18 Virginia Governor's Schools. The former Thomas Jefferson High School (Jefferson, TJHS), originally occupied the FCPS building of the current TJHSST. Over a two year period, from 1985 to 1987, the Jefferson students were merged into Annandale. The former TJHS students, now Annandale seniors, were appropriately given the one time special distinction to use a dual name, TJHS/AHS, for school year 1987–88. No students from Jefferson or TJHSST graduated in 1988.

Annandale High School was ranked #122, with a score of 1.391, in The Washington Post's 2010 Challenge Index, an annual ranking of public high schools in the Washington Metropolitan Area. Each school's score, and rank, was based on a simple formula: "divide the number of Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate or other college level tests a school gave in 2009 by the number of graduating seniors." and in 2007 it was ranked #107 (out of 190), with a score of 1.425.

In early 2010, the Annandale Border Control Force was established by local parent and community groups. Their goal was to realign the school borders by sending residents of Annandale to adjacent county schools such as Falls Church High School and sending Springfield residents to Lake Braddock Secondary School in an effort to address the overcrowding at Annandale High School. The issue has been long and contentious with some residents and students loyal to Annandale. Several options for preventing the realigning and reassigning of students of certain housing developments to different middle and high schools were suggested to the county school board. A major concern to the Annandale parent and community groups included losing sections of the Annandale community which would change the diverse demographics of the school.

Enrollment at AHS during the 2009–2010 school year was 2,257 students.