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Justice High
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Justice High
Justice High is a four-year high school of well-populated scale in Falls Church, Virginia, one of the schools within Fairfax County Public Schools, instructing 2,357 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Virginia's public schools average about 1,213 students each, so Justice High sits 94% above that benchmark.
Fairfax County Public Schools runs 199 schools in total, collectively educating 179,323 students. Justice High is one of those campuses.
On demographics, Justice High shows that Hispanic students make up the majority at 59%. Beyond that, the school records 19% White, 10% Black, 10% Asian, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Fairfax County as a whole is about 18% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 153 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 77% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Fairfax County's rate of about 37%.
With demographic context factored in, Justice High sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 67.0%; this one delivers 71.5%.
Zooming out to the county, Fairfax County reports that median household income runs about $153,637, 65% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Fairfax County's 222 public schools (combined enrollment of about 174,475 students), Justice High is one campus in the mix.
Bailey's Elementary School for the Arts and Sciences is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Justice High at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 58.7%.
Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Justice High has climbed 6%, going from 2,215 students in 2018 to 2,357 in 2025. Class-load math has rose: from 14.2:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 in 2025.
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