George C. Marshall High School

George C. Marshall High School is a public school in Idylwood, unincorporated Fairfax County, Virginia,"." U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved on October 21, 2009. and part of Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS). It is one of only two schools in the world with a high school program named after former United States Secretary of State George C. Marshall. The other, located in Ankara, Turkey, is , which is part of the Department of Defense Dependents Schools system and offers a first through twelfth grade curriculum. Newsweek ranked Marshall 159th on its 2009 list of the top U.S. high schools.

Academics

George C. Marshall High School is a fully accredited high school based on the Standards of Learning tests in Virginia. The combined SAT score placed Marshall in the top five of all neighborhood-based FCPS high schools that year and in the top six if Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology is included). Marshall High School has an offering specialized classes such as Chinese Language, Entrepreneurship, Criminal Justice, and Network Administration. Marshall also offers courses through the International Baccalaureate Program. Marshall's IB program produced seventy full diploma candidates in 2008, more than any other FCPS high...
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