| Number of Schools Managed |
68 |
8 |
| Number of Students Managed |
47,672 students |
3,743 students |
| District Total Revenue |
$537,964,000 |
$37,199,000 |
| District Expenditure |
$604,391,000 |
$37,511,000 |
| District Revenue / Student |
$11,285 |
$9,938 |
| District Expenditure / Student |
$12,678 |
$10,022 |
| District Graduation Rates |
95% |
88% |
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- Stone Bridge High School is a public secondary school in Ashburn, a community in Loudoun County, Virginia.
- The school is part of Loudoun County Public Schools and is located on 43100 Hay Road. It is not to be confused with StoneBridge School, a Christian private school, or Great Bridge High School, a public high school, both in Chesapeake, Virginia or Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart, a Catholic K-12 girls school in Bethesda, Maryland. Stone Bridge High School serves the northwestern part of Ashburn, including the Ashburn Farm, Belmont Ridge, Belmont Greene, Belmont Country Club communities and the Lansdowne community near Leesburg.
- History
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Stone Bridge opened in 2000, with its student body coming from Broad Run High School and Loudoun County High School. It opened the same year as two other Northern Virginia high schools, Forest Park Senior High School opened in Prince William County, and Westfield High School opened in Fairfax County; all three schools regularly played against each other in many sports in their inaugural year. The school's capacity is at around 1,800 students.
- During the first year, there were nearly 1,200 students from 9th through 11th grade; seniors stayed at Broad Run or Loudoun County. There were also nearly 500 8th graders housed at Stone Bridge during the 2000-2001 school year because of overcrowding at Harper Park Middle School, the feeder middle school at that time.
- In 2002, all of Stone Bridge's Leesburg student body (except for Lansdowne residents and upcoming seniors if they chose so and could provide their own transportation) were moved to Heritage High School, but some additional students from Broad Run were moved to Stone Bridge, dropping enrollment to roughly 1,400 students in the 2002-2003 school year.However, by the 2004-2005 school year, the student body went up to nearly 1,900 students, the biggest enrollment at the time for a Loudoun County high school. In 2005, Briar Woods High School's opening helped alleviate crowding, but its enrollment remained above 1,600 students.
- Schedule information
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Stone Bridge High School is open from 9:00 AM until 3:48 PM on all school days. Loudoun County schools are open later than neighboring jurisdictions such as Fairfax County and Prince William County where most schools open considerably earlier.
- Stone Bridge operates on an 8 period block schedule alternating each day, which are designated as A and B days. Periods 1-4 are on A days (all class periods in order); and periods 5-8 are on B days. Though there are eight periods, all students have a mandatory study hall period which is on one of these days (A/B) and periods. Some students, usually seniors or juniors (who must take a marketing co-op class) may obtain exemptions to leave school early or arrive late.
- Academics
- Accreditation
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Stone Bridge High School is fully accredited based on its performance on the Standards of Learning tests in Virginia since its opening in 2000.
- Curriculum
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Stone Bridge High School offers a comprehensive curriculum to all of its students. Most students take a standard curriculum, but the school is also a member of the Advanced Placement program, ESL courses for those who cannot speak English well, and special education courses for students with learning disabilities. Some students also elect to take classes at the Loudoun Academy of Science for math and science courses or the C.S. Monroe Technology Center for vocational courses.
- SBHS offers a wide variety of elective courses in a wide variety of areas, including Marketing, Technology, Home Economics, Art, Music, and Advanced Physical Education (for 11th and 12th graders only). Many of the elective courses offered at Stone Bridge require a great deal of work outside the classroom and some of these groups are mentioned in further detail below.
- Demographics
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Stone Bridge High School's student body in 2007-2008 was 74% White; 9% Black; 7% Hispanic; 9% Asian
- Extracurricular activities
- Music
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Stone Bridge's band program includes two concert bands, a marching band, a jazz ensemble, and two jazz lab bands, which are full size jazz ensembles that meet before school.
- The choir program is also made up of several groups, including a concert choir, treble choir, chamber singers, and a jazz choir which sometimes performs with the jazz ensemble.
- Since Loudoun County Public Schools opened a string program in the middle schools in 2002 to 7th graders, Stone Bridge and the other nine Loudoun high schools now also have string ensembles starting in the 2005-2006 school year during the school day.
- Drama
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Stone Bridge's drama department puts on three annual shows; a fall play, winter one-acts (including a competition piece), and the spring musical.
- Debate
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Stone Bridge competes in the Liberty District of the Northern Region for debate competitions. These are the same districts that Stone Bridge athletics are in, because debate is sponsored by the Virginia High School League. The debate program won the state title in 2004 AA Classic Debate and in 2005.
- FBLA
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Stone Bridge has a very active and dynamic Future Business Leaders of America chapter. The chapter has been named as an Honor Chapter by the Virginia FBLA since it was chartered in 2002. In 2006, the chapter was recognized with its first award from the National FBLA organization; the chapter received the Business Achievement Award due to the excellent teamwork and planning of the chapter's officers.
- Athletics
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The mascot is a bulldog and the sports teams play in the AAA Liberty District and Northern Region. The Bulldogs' athletic teams have won many team state and regional championships in their short history. The 2007 Stone Bridge football team (13-1) won the AAA division 5 championship.
- The cheerleaders earned the AAA State Championship title in 2008 after coming up short the previous year.
- External links
- Loudoun County Prep Sports: Covers in depth on all sports in Loudoun County, including Stone Bridge High School.
- VHSL-Reference
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