Farmwell Station Middle School

Farmwell Station Middle School is a public middle school in Ashburn, Virginia, a census designated place in Loudoun County, Virginia.

The school is part of Loudoun County Public Schools and is located at 44281 Gloucester Parkway, Ashburn, VA.

History

Farmwell Station opened in 1995 to alleviate crowding at Seneca Ridge Middle School in Sterling, which was designated to be the feeder middle school of the then-future Potomac Falls High School. Throughout the years, Farmwell Station's boundary lines have changed. In the 1999-2000 school year, Farmwell shifted half of its student body to Harper Park Middle School, which opened that same year. In the 2004-2005 school year, Mercer Middle School opened, taking Farmwell's South Riding and Aldie students. Due to overcrowding, Farmwell had to move a portion of its students to Eagle Ridge Middle School and Belmont Ridge Middle School in the 2007-2008 school year. When Trailside Middle School opened in the 2014-2015 school year, Farmwell shifted some of its students to it.

High School Feeder Changes

Farmwell Stations's been the feeder middle school for Broad Run High School since it opened. When John Champe High School opened in the 2012-2013 school year, the boundary lines for many Loudoun schools changed, resulting in a quarter of Farmwell students being zoned for Stone Bridge High School. This caused controversy, not only due to the intense rivalry between the two schools, but also due to many Farmwell students living closer of Broad Run, but instead attending Stone Bridge. In the 2014-2015 school year, Farmwell shifted all of its students zoned for Stone Bridge to Trailside Middle School, making it now the feeder middle school to only Broad Run.

References

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1. ↑ lcps.org/farmwell