Langston Hughes Middle School (Fairfax County, Virginia)

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Langston Hughes Middle School

School type	Public school
Principal	Deborah Jackson
Location	Reston, Virginia
Enrollment	853

Established	1979
Homepage	Official Site

Langston Hughes Middle School is a school in Reston in unincorporated Fairfax County, Virginia, United States.

The school is a part of the Fairfax County Public Schools System. It was originally known as Langston Hughes Intermediate School, and shared a building with South Lakes High School for the first year, and part of the second year of the school's history.

1 Feeder school
2 Demographics
3 Test Scores
4 Teachers
5 Teams
- 5.1 7th Grade
- 5.2 8th Grade

[edit] Feeder school

This school feeds into South Lakes High School for grades 9-12.

[edit] Demographics

Hughes's student body in is 45% White, 18% Hispanic, 17% Black, 13% Asian, 6% Unspecified, and less than 1% Native American.

[edit] Test Scores

Hughes is full accredited by the Virginia Department of Education. The following chart is for the 2005-2006 school year.

SOL Test	Percent Passing
Grade 7 English: Reading	85%
Grade 7 Math	83%
Grade 8 English: Reading	84%
Grade 8 Science	88%
Grade 8 English: Writing	92%
Grade 8 Math	75%

[edit] Teachers

36% of teachers have a Bachelor's degree, 63% have a Master's degree, 1% have a Doctorate degree. There are 12 students per teacher. There is a 95% attendance rate.