Tuscarora High School (Virginia)

Tuscarora High School
Tuscarora High School
Address
	801 N. King Street; Leesburg, Virginia 20176
Coordinates	39°08′00″N 77°33′36″W / 39.1332459°N 77.5599836°W
Information
School type	Public high school
Founded	2010
School district	Loudoun County Public Schools
Principal	Pamela Croft
Grades	9–12
Enrollment	1,520 (2018–19)
Language	English
Campus	Suburban
Color(s)	Royal Blue, Black, and White
Mascot	Husky
Nickname	Huskies/Tusky Terror
Communities served	Lucketts; Potomac Crossing; Raspberry Falls; Beacon Hill
Feeder schools	Smart's Mill Middle School ; Ball's Bluff Elementary School ; Frances Hazel Reid Elementary School ; Leesburg Elementary School ; Lucketts Elementary School ; Kenneth W. Culbert Elementary School ; Catoctin Elementary School
Athletic Conference	Potomac District;
Website	Official website

Tuscarora High School is a public high school located in Leesburg, a town in Loudoun County, Virginia, United States, and is part of Loudoun County Public Schools. The school opened in the 2010–2011 school year and consists of students from Leesburg and Lucketts.

History

Tuscarora opened in the fall of 2010. The school was originally planned to open for the 2008–2009 school year, but site acquisition delays caused the school to open two years later than planned. Until the 2012 school year, with the opening of John Champe High School, Tuscarora was the largest high school in Loudoun County with a capacity of 1,800 students. Pamela Croft is the first and current principal at Tuscarora.

Academics

Tuscarora High School is fully accredited. The school received the "accredited with warning" rating in the 2014–2015 school year for achieving below the standard on math benchmarks. This is the second time the school missed full accreditation for failing to meet the 75% pass rate required on state standardized tests. The school received full accreditation in 2016.

Tuscarora offers Dual Enrollment courses through Northern Virginia Community College.

Demographics

The student body makeup is 52 percent male and 48 percent female, and the total minority enrollment is 41 percent.^[3]

Band

The Marching Huskies marching band is renowned statewide for its quality, creativity and precision in competition, in spite of its relative small size. The Tuscarora Marching Band is a four-time state champion, most recently as the VMBC Class 1A champions in 2023.^[4] Benjamin Williams was the first band director of Tuscarora. The current band director is McKenzie Durgin.^[5] The Marching Huskies band represented Virginia in the 2015 and 2023 Pearl Harbor Day Parade in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Sports

In Fall 2014, the Tuscarora Girls Cross Country team won the first ever state championship for the school. In November 2017, the girls won their 3rd Class 5A State Title in 4 years.^[6] The Tuscarora Girls Soccer team won the 2023 VHSL Class 4 state championship, the program's first.^[7]

Enrollment history

School Year	Number of Students
2010–2011	1,097^[8]
2011–2012	1,548^[9]
2012–2013	1,746^[10]
2013–2014	1,910^[11]
2022–2023	1,401^[12]

Notable alumni

Fletcher Westphal (2024), college football offensive tackle for the Florida Gators^[13]

References

^ "LCPS Cluster Enrollment 2018" (PDF). Retrieved October 22, 2018.
^ "SECONDARY ATTENDANCE ZONES FOR EASTERN LOUDOUN, ASHBURN AND CENTRAL LOUDOUN 2022-2023 SCHOOL YEAR (SCHOOL BOARD ADOPTED DECEMBER 13, 2022)" (PDF). Retrieved December 16, 2022.
^ "Tuscarora High School Profile". Archived from the original on 2017-03-29. Retrieved 2017-09-17.
^ Tuscarora Band (2023-10-29). "Introducing your 2023 VMBC Class 1A State Champions!".
^ "Durgin, McKenzie - Fine Arts, Band". Archived from the original on 2024-05-09.
^ "Tuscarora runs to third title in four years at Class 5 cross-country meet". 14 November 2017.
^ Errigo, Michael (2023-06-11). "Tuscarora girls' soccer joyride ends with program's first state title". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2024-02-01.
^ "Loudoun County School Board Adopted Fiscal Year 2012 – Fiscal Year 2016 Capital Improvement Program" (PDF). LCPS. Retrieved 3 December 2012.
^ "SCHOOL BOARD ADOPTED FY 2013 – FY 2018 CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM" (PDF). LCPS. Retrieved 3 December 2012.
^ "Superintendent's Recommended Fiscal Year 2014–2018 Capital Improvement Program" (PDF). LCPS. Retrieved 3 December 2012.^{[permanent dead link‍]}
^ "Superintendent's Recommended Fiscal Year 2015–2020 Capital Improvement Program" (PDF). LCPS. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
^ "LCPS Dashboards-School Profiles". dashboards.lcps.org. Retrieved 2023-03-06.
^ Carroll, Brandon (July 10, 2023). "Florida Gators Land Commitment From Coveted OT Fletcher Westphal". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved 2024-07-05.

External links

39°08′00″N 77°33′27″W / 39.1333°N 77.5574°W / 39.1333; -77.5574

[1] "LCPS Cluster Enrollment 2018" (PDF). Retrieved October 22, 2018.

[2] "SECONDARY ATTENDANCE ZONES FOR EASTERN LOUDOUN, ASHBURN AND CENTRAL LOUDOUN 2022-2023 SCHOOL YEAR (SCHOOL BOARD ADOPTED DECEMBER 13, 2022)" (PDF). Retrieved December 16, 2022.

[3] "Tuscarora High School Profile". Archived from the original on 2017-03-29. Retrieved 2017-09-17.

[4] Tuscarora Band (2023-10-29). "Introducing your 2023 VMBC Class 1A State Champions!".

[5] "Durgin, McKenzie - Fine Arts, Band". Archived from the original on 2024-05-09.

[6] "Tuscarora runs to third title in four years at Class 5 cross-country meet". 14 November 2017.

[7] Errigo, Michael (2023-06-11). "Tuscarora girls' soccer joyride ends with program's first state title". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2024-02-01.

[8] "Loudoun County School Board Adopted Fiscal Year 2012 – Fiscal Year 2016 Capital Improvement Program" (PDF). LCPS. Retrieved 3 December 2012.

[9] "SCHOOL BOARD ADOPTED FY 2013 – FY 2018 CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM" (PDF). LCPS. Retrieved 3 December 2012.

[auto-10] "Superintendent's Recommended Fiscal Year 2014–2018 Capital Improvement Program" (PDF). LCPS. Retrieved 3 December 2012.^{[permanent dead link‍]}

[11] "Superintendent's Recommended Fiscal Year 2015–2020 Capital Improvement Program" (PDF). LCPS. Retrieved 10 October 2014.

[12] "LCPS Dashboards-School Profiles". dashboards.lcps.org. Retrieved 2023-03-06.

[13] Carroll, Brandon (July 10, 2023). "Florida Gators Land Commitment From Coveted OT Fletcher Westphal". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved 2024-07-05.

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v t e Loudoun County Public Schools
District offices	21000 Education Court, Ashburn, Virginia 20148
Elementary schools	Aldie Algonkian Arcola Ashburn Ball's Bluff Banneker Belmont Station Buffalo Trail Cardinal Ridge Rosa Lee Carter Catoctin Cedar Lane Cool Spring Countryside Creighton's Corner Kenneth W. Culbert Discovery Dominion Trail Frederick Douglass Emerick Evergreen Mill Forest Grove Guilford Goshen Post Hamilton Hillsboro Charter Hillside Horizon Hovatter Hutchison Farm Henrietta Lacks Leesburg Legacy Liberty Lincoln Little River Lovettsville Lowes Island Lucketts Madison's Trust Meadowland Middleburg Community Charter Mill Run Moorefield Station Mountain View Newton-Lee Pinebrook Potowmack Frances Hazel Reid Rolling Ridge Round Hill Sanders Corner Seldens Landing Sterling Sugarland Sully Sycolin Creek Elaine E. Thompson John W. Tolbert Waterford Waxpool Steuart W. Weller
Middle schools	Belmont Ridge Blue Ridge Brambleton Eagle Ridge Farmwell Station Harmony Harper Park J. Michael Lunsford Mercer River Bend Seneca Ridge J.L. Simpson Smart's Mill Sterling Stone Hill Trailside Willard
High schools	Briar Woods Broad Run Dominion Freedom Heritage Independence John Champe Lightridge Loudoun County Loudoun Valley Park View Potomac Falls Riverside Rock Ridge Stone Bridge Tuscarora Woodgrove
Alternative/ magnet schools	C. S. Monroe Technology Center Douglass School Academies of Loudoun Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology

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