| Hayfield Secondary School | |
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Birds Fly, Hawks Soar
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| Address | |
| 7630 Telegraph Road Alexandria, Virginia 22315 |
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| School type | Public, secondary school |
| Founded | 1968 |
| School district | Fairfax County Public Schools |
| Principal | David Tremaine |
| Staff | approximately 260 |
| Grades | 7–12 |
| Enrollment | 2,767 (2009-2010) |
| Middle school | 910 |
| High school | 1,857 |
| Language | English |
| Campus | Suburban |
| Color(s) | Orange and white ██ |
| Mascot | Hawks |
| Feeder schools | Gunston Elementary School Hayfield Elementary School Island Creek Elementary School Lane Elementary School Lorton Station Elementary School |
| Rival schools | Thomas A. Edison High School South County Secondary School |
| Athletic conferences | National District Northern Region |
| Website | http://www.fcps.edu/HayfieldSS |
Hayfield Secondary School is the oldest secondary school in the Fairfax County Public Schools system of Virginia. It opened its doors in 1968 and graduated its first seniors in 1971.
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The land that Hayfield Secondary sits on was at one time part of George Washington's Mount Vernon estate. Because of a small natural spring underneath the school, the land literally served as a hay field. The land itself changed hands numerous times, until 1956 when developers constructed the nearby Hayfield Farm subdivision, the first of many housing developments in the region. Hayfield Secondary opened its doors to middle school (7th and 8th grade) students as well as 9-10th grades during the 1968-1969 school year, while still under construction. Floyd W. Worley was the first Principal and permitted the first four classes to choose both the school's colors and nickname via individual voting during physical education classes using a ballot which included the Head Football Coach Jim Walthall's alma mater The University of Tennessee's moniker, "Volunteers," and colors, orange and white. While the UT's colors collected the young Hayfield community's consensus choice, the alliterative "Hawks" became Hayfield's "head rhyming" mascot. The school is erroneously mentioned in Remember the Titans as being "all white." While at the time of the desegregation of the City of Alexandria's T.C. Williams High School, a large majority of Hayfield's students were white, it was racially integrated from the day of its first opening in 1968, drawing the majority of its students of color from the children of military men and women at nearby Fort Belvoir, home to the U.S. Army's Corp of Engineers. The desegregation encouraging word "Diversity" even headed a section of the '73 yearbook, the fifth volume of the "Harvester." [1] As the region which it serves grew, overcrowding became a major issue at Hayfield, and by the late 1990s it routinely exceeded its intended capacity with 4000+ students. A renovation of the school began in 2002 and was completed in 2005. Further helping to relieve the pressure on Hayfield was the opening of South County Secondary School, also in 2005. However, due to overcrowding at South County in its second year of operation and under-utilized capacity at Hayfield, Hayfield accommodated more students again from a boundary change with South County approved for the 2007-2008 school year.[2] The school is expected to continually grow substantially until the 2010-2011 school year as all grades from the rezoning settle in.
Hayfield is a secondary school, meaning it serves grades 7 through 12, but the high school and middle school students are generally kept segregated. The middle school has an honors (formally GT) program and the high school offers both honors and Advanced Placement courses. As of Spring 2007, the number of exams on which a score of 3 or higher was achieved (on a scale of 1-5) rose to 57% from 46% the previous year, the best results found on record for Hayfield.
Hayfield's It's Academic Team held the Patriot District title in the 2000-2001, 2005–2006 and 2006-2007 school years. In 2001, the team also won in the first round on the It's Academic television show, the first time it had won in 10 years. Members of this team include Christopher Koves, Douglas Lee, and Jason Loss. In 2002, the Hayfield It's Academic team placed 2nd in the District and 2nd in the Northern Region, advancing to the State Championship. In 2006, the Hayfield team placed third in the Northern Region behind Langley High School and Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology. In 2007, the team placed second in the Northern Region. At the state championship Hayfield tied for 5th place.
Hayfield has a notable Robotics Team that has been in the Top 8 in the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) and been invited three times in the past three years to the FRC National Competition, including the most recent competition in 2007.
Hayfield's Varsity Science Olympiad team took first place in several categories at the McLean High School Competition 2007. Hayfield's Varsity Science Olympiad team took first place in several categories, including Forensics and Write It Do It at the West Potomac High School Competition 2007.
Hayfield sent its first team to the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in 2007. The following year, in 2008, another team project was sent along with an individual project.
Hayfield also has a consistently successful music program. During the 2010-2011 school year at the District X Festival, the Orchestra program brought home five Superior ratings under the direction of Carrie New. The Band also brought home many as well.
Hayfield's former principal, Dr. Bill Oehrlein, was named an outstanding principal of the year in 2007 by the Virginia Association of Secondary School Principals, sponsored by MetLife.[3]
Hayfield's high school teams compete in the AAA National District of the AAA Northern Region of the Virginia High School League. The school's mascot is the hawk and the school colors are orange and white (and unofficially blue).
The boys' wrestling team, coached by Roy Hill, won districts 9 years in a row. As well as, 6 Northern region titles in 8 years(1999-2006). Coach Hill has coached 5 individual state champions.
The Hayfield varsity football team won the National District title against rival Thomas A. Edison High School in 2009. The varsity volleyball team won districts to continue the Hawks' dominance in their new district. Hayfield's varsity cross country team placed second in districts in 2009. In spring of 2010, the varsity softball team won the National District title after beating Yorktown High School.
Actor Matthew Ashford, best known for portraying the role of Jack Deveraux on the NBC soap opera Days of our Lives.
Writer Mike D'Orso, class of 1971 (the first graduating class), has authored or coauthored numerous nonfiction works, including Like Judgement Day: The Rise and Redemption of Rosewood, Florida, which was instrumental in the development of the film Rosewood, starring [[Jon Voight[[ and Ving Rhames and directed by John Singleton. His most recent book is Oceana: Our Endangered Oceans and What We Can Do to Save Them (2011), written with actor/activist Ted Danson.
Anthony Mayberry played American football for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers from 1990 to 1999. He was selected to three Pro Bowls. He played college football at Wake Forest.
Larry Asante is an American football safety for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League. He played college football at Nebraska. At Hayfield, he earned all-league honors as a running back in the AAA Patriot Division.[4]
Geoff Leach, class of 1992. Lead singer, Elephant Boy (Warner Bros. Records). Hip hop/rock music crossover artist and radio and print personality.
Conler Mandt, class of 2009. National champion competitive public speaker, oral interpretation of literature, at the 2009 National Catholic Forensic League Grand Nationals tournament[5].
Hayfield's Dorris Torris Field House is the largest high school gymnasium in Northern Virginia.
Hayfield's Rebecca S. Wilburn Auditorium is one of the largest auditoriums in Northern Virginia, and includes an orchestra pit elevator lift built into the front of the stage that allows that portion of the stage to act as either an orchestra pit or stage extension.
Technical support for the Wilburn Auditorium is supported by a student organization, the Hayfield Audio and Lighting Technicians ("HALT"). Because of the size of the Wilburn Auditorium and the non-school clientele that it serves, this group is unique within the county.
Hayfield Secondary's Planetarium opened its doors in 1969. The main instrument of the planetarium is the Spitz A-4 projector. Many special effect projectors are also used to demonstrate certain astronomical and atmospheric phenomena, such as lunar and solar eclipses, different types of lightning, auroras, and the phasing of the moon. The planetarium is also equipped with three Kodak Ektograph projectors, and a slide dissolve system which is used to show previously produced slide programs and to create special slide programs on current astronomical topics. The most recent additions to the equipment list is a video projector and a special effects projector.
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