page_title: Yorktown High School (Arlington County, Virginia)
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Yorktown High School (Arlington County, Virginia) / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Original front of Yorktown High School, prior to 2010 re-build
context_page_description: Yorktown High School is one of three public high schools located in Arlington County, Virginia. There are around 240 teachers and 2100 students as of 2019. In 2014–15 school year, there were 1,933 students. Yorktown’s attendance area makes up the northern third of Arlington County.
  Yorktown is an accredited high school based on Virginia's Standards of Learning examinations, and is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. The school is ranked among the top 100 schools in the nation according to Newsweek.
context_section_description: The school building opened in January 1950 as an elementary school, The Yorktown School, and it served the community as such until it was converted into a high school.  It was called Yorktown from its opening.  At that time it was a one-story building and only housed the elementary students.
  The school opened for the first time for the 1960–61 school year, with only sophomores and juniors. The first graduating class was in 1962. The building was originally an elementary school, which was converted into a high school to relieve crowding at Washington-Lee High School.
  The school was threatened with closure in 1982 due to declining enrollment, but remained open due to community support. To boost the school's population, the attendance boundary between Washington-Lee and Yorktown in the northeastern portion of the county was redrawn in 1983. Portions of the Donaldson Run, Cherrydale, Woodmont, Dover Crystal, and Old Dominion neighborhoods were transferred into a larger Yorktown district.
  
  In the 1990s its boundaries expanded once again to serve the communities of Rosslyn, Courthouse, Clarendon, Westover, Halls Hill/Highview Park, and portions of Dominion Hills. An entirely new Yorktown facility opened for the 2013–14 school year, after several years of construction. The replacement campus was designed by Ehrenkrantz Eckstut & Kuhn Architects.
caption: Original front entrance of Yorktown High School, prior to 2010 rebuilding
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