Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology explained

Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
Streetaddress:6560 Braddock Road
State:Virginia
Zipcode:22312
Country:United States
Principal:Ann Bonitatibus
Teaching Staff:114.00 (FTE) (2022–23)
Ratio:17.25 (2022–23)
Grades:9–12
Enrollment:1,967 (2022–23)[1]
Team Name:Colonials
Accreditation:SACS CASI[2]
Newspaper:tjTODAY[3]
Yearbook:Techniques
Usnwr Ranking:5 (2023)[4]
Feeders:Northern Virginia schools
Campus Type:Suburban

Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (also known as TJHSST, TJ, or Jefferson) is a Virginia state-chartered magnet high school in Fairfax County, Virginia operated by Fairfax County Public Schools. 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 and 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.

Attendance at the school is open to students in six local jurisdictions based on academic achievement described in essays, the Student Portrait Sheet, problem-solving skills, assessed by the Problem Solving Essay, grade-point average, and socio-economic background.[5] Before the 2020–21 school year, the admissions process also involved a math, reading, and science exam.[6]

History

20th century

Thomas Jefferson High School was constructed and opened in 1964.[7] [8] 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.[9] Burkholder announced the plans for the magnet school in January 1984.[10] The school board chose Thomas Jefferson High School as the location for the new magnet school in June 1984[11] and approved the funding in February 1985.[12]

The school was originally intended to only serve Fairfax County students, but after Virginia governor Charles S. Robb 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, Loudoun, and Prince William counties and from the Cities of Fairfax and Falls Church to attend as well.[13] [14] 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.[15] Hazleton Laboratories, Honeywell, AT&T, Virginia Power, Sony Corporation, Hewlett-Packard, and Xerox, and other companies made contributions in equipment or finances to the school before it opened.[16] 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.

21st century

From 2013 to 2017, the school underwent renovations, adding additional research labs, internet cafes, three-dimensional art galleries, a black box theater, and a dome reminiscent of President Thomas Jefferson's Monticello.[17] [18] The renovations cost $90 million.[19]

Admissions

Admission statistics
YearApplicantsAdmitsAdmit rate
2012[20] 3,42348014.0%
2013[21] 3,12148015.4%
2014[22] 2,90048716.8%
2015[23] 2,84149317.4%
2016[24] 2,86848316.8%
2017[25] 2,90249016.9%
2018[26] 3,16048515.3%
2019[27] 2,76649417.9%
2020[28] 2,53948619.1%
2021[29] 3,03455018.1%
2022[30] 2,54455021.6%

The school is part of the Fairfax County Public Schools system of Fairfax County, Virginia. Students from Fairfax, Arlington, Loudoun, and Prince William counties and from the Cities of Fairfax and Falls Church are eligible for admission.[31] 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.[32]

Before the 2020–21 school year, the admissions process also included a math, reading, and science exam.

Demographics and exam controversy

Data are based on the 2020-2021, 2019-2020 and 2018-2019 academic years.
Race and ethnicityTotal
Asian
White
Two or more Races
Hispanic
Black
American Indian/Alaska Native
Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander
SexTotal
Male
Female

See also: Coalition for TJ v. Fairfax County School Board.

The admissions process and the demographics of the student body it produces, in particular the under-representation of black and Hispanic 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.[33] 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.[34] [35]

In 2012, a civil rights complaint against the school was filed with the U.S. Department of Education 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 NAACP, alleging that it discriminated against black, Hispanic, and disabled students.[36] [37] In response, the Office of Civil Rights, in September 2012, opened an investigation.[38] [39]

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.[40] Following these changes, the proportion of black and Hispanic students admitted increased from 4.52% to 18.36% while the proportion of Asian Americans 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 Pacific Legal Foundation, sued the Fairfax County school board, alleging that the 2020 changes to the admissions process discriminated against Asian Americans.[41] In February 2022, judge Claude M. Hilton of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia ruled in Coalition for TJ v. Fairfax County School Board in the Coalition for TJ's favor and ordered the school to return to the previous admissions process.[42] The school board appealed the decision to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit 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.[43] The Supreme Court of the United States rejected a request to vacate the stay in April 2022.[44] The case was heard in the court of appeals on September 16, 2022, and decided on May 23, 2023.[45] The Fourth Circuit, by a 2 to 1 vote, reversed the district court and restored the new admission plan. The Fourth Circuit's decision was appealed to the Supreme Court, but the Supreme Court rejected to review the case on February 20, 2024 with Justice Clarence Thomas and Justice Samuel Alito dissenting from the denial.[46]

Curriculum

TJ's curriculum is focused on college preparation and provides students with the opportunity to achieve in all disciplines, with an emphasis on science and technology.[47]

TJ3Sat and TJREVERB projects

The Systems Engineering Course designed and built a CubeSat which was launched on November 19, 2013, from Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Orbital Sciences Corporation 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 EST, TJ3SAT became the first satellite launched into space that was built by high school students.[48] The launched satellite contained a 4-watt transmitter operating on amateur radio frequencies, and a text-to-speech module to allow it to broadcast ASCII-encoded messages sent to it from Jefferson.

TJREVERB, a 2U CubeSat, is the school's second CubeSat mission. After a 6-year period of planning, building, and testing from 2016 to 2022 that was interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, REVERB was launched aboard SpaceX's CRS-26 on November 26, 2022, at 2:20PM EST.[49] REVERB was deployed from the International Space Station on December 29, 2022, via Nanoracks.[50] [51] The satellite is being located through crowdsourcing, with help from AMSAT.[52] It will test the Iridium satellite radio[53] and connect to the students' ground station through email.

Computer Systems Lab

The school's computer systems lab is one of the few high school computing facilities with a supercomputer. In 1988, a team from the school won an ETA-10P supercomputer in the SuperQuest competition, a national science competition for high school students.[54] The ETA-10P was damaged by a roof leak in the 1990s. Cray Inc. donated a new SV1 supercomputer, known as Seymour, to the school on December 4, 2002, which is on display as of 2021.[55]

The lab also supported a number of Sun Microsystems 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.[56] 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.[57] [58] [59] [60]

Awards and recognition

In 2021 and 2022, U.S. News & World Report ranked TJ as the best overall high school in the United States.[61] It was previously ranked fourth in 2020,[62] tenth in 2019,[63] and sixth in 2018.[64] In 2016, the school placed first in Newsweeks annual "America's Top High Schools" rankings for the third consecutive year.[65] [66] [67] The average SAT score for the graduating class of 2020 was 1528 and the average ACT score was 34.5.[68]

The school had 14 Intel Science Talent Search Semifinalists in 2007,[69] 15 in 2009,[70] and 13 in 2010.[71] In 2024, 7 were named.[72]

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.[73] In 2014, 3864 AP Exams were taken by students; over 97% earned a score of 3, 4, or 5.

President Barack Obama signed the America Invents Act into law on September 16, 2011, at the school. The law was made to reform U.S. patent laws.[74]

In 1997, 2000, 2013, and 2017, the wind ensemble of the school was among fifteen high-school bands invited to the Music for All National Concert Band Festival in Indianapolis.[75]

Merit award controversy

In December 2022, it was reported that during the previous five years,[76] some students at the school who had been named National Merit Scholarship Commended Scholars had not been notified of their achievement until several months after the school was given the awards to distribute to the students, too late for the students to include with their college applications. A lawyer named Shawnna Yashar, whose son was one of the students at the school whose commendation information had not been reported by the school, said, "Keeping these certificates from students is theft by the state."[77] [78] School officials stated that the issue was a "one-time human error."[79]

Notable alumni

See also

Further reading

Notes and References

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  4. News: 2023 . Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology . U.S. News & World Report . November 13, 2023 . February 17, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230217153430/https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/virginia/districts/fairfax-county-public-schools/thomas-jefferson-high-school-for-science-and-technology-20461 . live.
  5. Web site: TJHSST Freshman Application Process Fairfax County Public Schools . August 23, 2022 . www.fcps.edu . August 23, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220823152607/https://www.fcps.edu/registration/thomas-jefferson-high-school-science-and-technology-admissions/tjhsst-freshman . live.
  6. News: Natanson . Hannah . October 8, 2020 . Fairfax school board eliminates admissions test at Thomas Jefferson High School . en-US . Washington Post . August 24, 2022 . 0190-8286 . July 7, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220707204639/https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/thomas-jefferson-high-admissions-change/2020/10/07/0a1f8faa-08a7-11eb-9be6-cf25fb429f1a_story.html . live.
  7. News: Baye . Rachel . April 1, 2013 . Elite 'TJ' plans for $90 million expansion . en . August 30, 2022 . August 30, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220830053519/https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/elite-tj-plans-for-90-million-expansion . live .
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  17. News: Singh . Avni . Administration celebrates end of renovation with ribbon cutting ceremony . en-US . tjTODAY . April 20, 2017 . September 2, 2022 . August 30, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220830053538/https://www.tjtoday.org/20612/showcase/administration-celebrates-end-of-renovation-with-ribbon-cutting-ceremony/ . live .
  18. News: Peterson . Tim . Renovation Keeps Rolling at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria . en-US . Connection Newspapers . November 20, 2014 . September 2, 2022 . August 30, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220830053538/http://www.connectionnewspapers.com/news/2014/nov/20/renovation-keeps-rolling-thomas-jefferson-high-sch/ . live .
  19. News: Prestigious Fairfax School Plans $90 Million Renovation . en-US . April 2, 2013 . NBC Washington . September 2, 2022 . August 30, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220830053523/https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/prestigious-fairfax-school-plans-90m-renovation/2100725/ . live .
  20. Web site: TJHSST Admissions Statistics for Class of 2016 . November 23, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150404073947/http://www.fcps.edu/cco/pr/tj/tjadmissions0412.pdf . April 4, 2015.
  21. Web site: TJHSST Admissions Statistics for Class of 2017 . November 23, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150412004754/http://www.fcps.edu/cco/pr/tj/tjadmissions0413.pdf . April 12, 2015.
  22. Web site: TJHSST Admissions Statistics for Class of 2018 . November 23, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150404073953/http://www.fcps.edu/cco/pr/tj/tjadmissions0414.pdf . April 4, 2015.
  23. News: Shapiro . T. Rees . Asian students dominate admissions to elite Thomas Jefferson High School . . April 19, 2017 . March 31, 2015 . May 18, 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170518034051/https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/asians-students-dominate-admissions-to-elite-thomas-jefferson-high-school/2015/03/31/fd6771be-d7de-11e4-ba28-f2a685dc7f89_story.html . live .
  24. News: April 16, 2016 . FCPS - News Releases . August 24, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160416035840/http://commweb.fcps.edu/newsreleases/newsrelease.cfm?newsid=2955 . April 16, 2016.
  25. News: FCPS Offers Admission to TJHSST to 490 Students Fairfax County Public Schools . May 16, 2017 . August 24, 2022 . August 24, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220824023206/https://www.fcps.edu/news/fcps-offers-admission-tjhsst-490-students . live .
  26. News: TJHSST Offers Admission to 485 Students for the Class of 2022 Fairfax County Public Schools . April 9, 2018 . August 24, 2022 . August 24, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220824023208/https://www.fcps.edu/news/tjhsst-offers-admission-485-students-class-2022 . live .
  27. News: FCPS' TJHSST Offers Admission to 494 Students Fairfax County Public Schools . May 31, 2019 . August 24, 2022 . August 24, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220824023208/https://www.fcps.edu/news/fcps-tjhsst-offers-admission-494-students . live .
  28. News: TJHSST Offers Admission to 486 Students Fairfax County Public Schools . June 1, 2020 . August 24, 2022 . August 24, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220824023116/https://www.fcps.edu/news/tjhsst-offers-admission-486-students . live .
  29. News: TJHSST Offers Admission to 550 Students; Broadens Access to Students Who Have an Aptitude for STEM Fairfax County Public Schools . June 23, 2021 . August 24, 2022 . August 24, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220824023207/https://www.fcps.edu/news/tjhsst-offers-admission-550-students-broadens-access-students-who-have-aptitude-stem . live .
  30. News: Thomas Jefferson High School Continues to Increase Access for All Fairfax County Public Schools . June 30, 2022 . August 24, 2022 . September 21, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220921170904/https://www.fcps.edu/news/thomas-jefferson-high-school-continues-increase-access-all . live .
  31. Web site: TJHSST Eligibility Requirements . . August 23, 2022 . August 26, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220826085949/https://www.fcps.edu/registration/thomas-jefferson-admissions/eligibility-requirements . live .
  32. Web site: Regulation 3355.16 . August 23, 2022 . August 11, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220811024554/https://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/files/CEHHLJ490428/$file/R3355.pdf . live .
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  34. News: How should a premier magnet school boost Black and Latino enrollment? A suggested lottery spurs fierce debate. . en-US . Washington Post . August 26, 2022 . 0190-8286 . September 14, 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210914204903/https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/how-should-a-premier-magnet-school-boost-black-and-latino-enrollment-a-suggested-lottery-spurs-fierce-debate/2020/10/02/ccd10348-04b1-11eb-a2db-417cddf4816a_story.html . live .
  35. News: Black, Hispanic students dwindle at elite Va. public school . The Washington Post . February 14, 2011 . October 30, 2010 . November 24, 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20101124221705/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/30/AR2010103003460.html . live .
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  40. Web site: December 18, 2020 . School Board Chooses Holistic Review as New Admissions Policy for TJHSST Fairfax County Public Schools . August 26, 2022 . www.fcps.edu . September 21, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220921170910/https://www.fcps.edu/news/school-board-chooses-holistic-review-new-admissions-policy-tjhsst . live .
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