Robinson Secondary School

James W. Robinson, Jr.
Secondary School
Address
Robinson Secondary School
Robinson Secondary School
Robinson Secondary School
5035 Sideburn Road
Fairfax, Virginia 22032
United States
Coordinates 38°49′01″N 77°18′11″W / 38.817°N 77.303°W / 38.817; -77.303Coordinates: 38°49′01″N 77°18′11″W / 38.817°N 77.303°W / 38.817; -77.303
Information
School type Public, secondary school
Motto The Home of Champions
Established 1971 (1971)
School district Fairfax County Public Schools
Principal Matt Eline
Staff Approximately 400
Grades 7–12
Enrollment 3,918[1] (2016-17)
Campus Suburban
Color(s) Royal blue and gold          
Athletics VHSL 6A, Occoquan Region
Athletics conference Patriot
Mascot Ram
Rivals Lake Braddock, Centreville
Newspaper Valor Dictus
Yearbook Above and Beyond
Website robinsonss.fcps.edu

James W. Robinson, Jr. Secondary School is a six-year public school in the Commonwealth of Virginia, in the United States. Known as Robinson Secondary School, it is located in Fairfax County, a suburb southwest of Washington, D.C.

Opened 47 years ago in 1971, Robinson is located south of Braddock Road near George Mason University, and is administered by the Fairfax County Public Schools. It offers the International Baccalaureate and Advanced Placement programs, and has approximately 3,900 students in grades 7–12. Robinson's school colors are royal blue and gold, and the school mascot is a ram.

History

Robinson was named after Medal of Honor recipient James W. Robinson, Jr., the first resident of Virginia to be awarded the medal during the Vietnam War. Sergeant Robinson, age 25, was fatally wounded under heroic circumstances in South Vietnam fifty-two years ago in April 1966, while serving in the infantry in the U.S. Army.

Robinson Secondary School

The school opened its doors in September 1971, taking its students from Fairfax, W.T. Woodson, Oakton, and West Springfield high schools. It was the second of Fairfax County's "secondary schools," or "superschools," which housed grades 7–12. Robinson's chief rival to the east, Lake Braddock, which opened two years later in 1973, was the third of these schools from this era. The first was Hayfield, near Mount Vernon, which opened in 1968, and the most recent is South County in Lorton, which opened in 2005, taking its students from former Hayfield territory. South County has since reverted to high school status with the opening of South County Middle School near the school's athletic complex.

Demographics

For the 2016–2017 school year, Robinson's grade 9–12 student body was 58.52% White, 15.19% Asian, 13.31% Hispanic, 5.28% Black and 4.42% other races.[2] The grade 7–8 student body was 60.59% White, 10.88% Asian, 14.06% Hispanic, 6.78% Black and 7.70% other races.[3]

Athletics

LSD scandal

In 1991, Robinson was the center of an LSD trafficking scandal in which a drug ring sold more than 100,000 doses of LSD over two years.[4] The ring was exposed when a 16-year-old Robinson student shot and wounded a Fairfax police officer.[5] In the course of the investigation it was revealed that six Robinson and Lake Braddock graduates were receiving large quantities of the drug through the mail.[6] One of the men who was facing the harshest penalties faked suicide and fled the area, only to be caught two years later in St. Louis and sentenced to 24 years in prison with no possibility of parole.[7]

Notable alumni

Entrance to the school

References

  1. ↑ "Robinson Secondary". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved June 10, 2018.
  2. ↑ "FCPS - School Profiles - Robinson SS - High - Demographics". Retrieved 11 June 2018.
  3. ↑ "FCPS - School Profiles - Robinson SS - Middle - Demographics". Retrieved 11 June 2018.
  4. ↑ "LSD Ring Alleged at Va. School". Retrieved 30 November 2016.
  5. ↑ Heath, Thomas (1991-09-21). "3rd Man Pleads Guilty In Fairfax LSD Case; Defendant Admits He Sold Drug to Juveniles".
  6. ↑ Howe, Robert F. (1991-11-15). "1 Convicted, 1 Acquitted in Va. LSD Trial;Case Revealed Free-Flowing Drug Parties Among Middle-Class Suburban Teenagers".
  7. ↑ "Drug Ring Leader Who Faked Suicide Gets 24 Years". 1993-12-18.
  8. ↑ Goff, Steven (June 11, 2015). "Jill Ellis played soccer with boys. Now she leads U.S. in Women's World Cup". Washington Post. Retrieved 2015-06-12.
  9. ↑ Buck, Joshua & Bolden, Jay. "NASA, Space Station Partners Announce Future Crew Members". Retrieved 31 August 2013.
  10. ↑ "Head Lacrosse Coach Scott Urick and Associate AD Matt Rienzo Host Lacrosse Clinic at UDC Field". Retrieved 31 August 2013.
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