John Champe High School

High school in Aldie, Virginia

Navy and SilverMascotKnightNicknameChampeCommunities servedAldie
Stone Ridge
Lenah
ChantillyFeeder schoolsMercer Middle School, Aldie Elementary, Arcola Elementary, Buffalo Trail Elementary, Goshen Post Elementary, Pinebrook Elementary, Liberty Elementary, Cardinal Ridge ElementaryWebsitehttps://www.lcps.org/jch

John Champe High School is a public high school in Aldie, an unincorporated community in Loudoun County, Virginia, United States. The school was established in 2012. It is named after the revolutionary war hero John Champe who led an unsuccessful attempt to kidnap traitor Benedict Arnold. The campus is just south of U.S. Route 50 and 30 miles west of Washington, D.C. It is part of Loudoun County Public Schools and is located at 41535 Sacred Mountain Street.^[1]

History

The school opened primarily to relieve Freedom High School of its overcrowding and to accommodate future development in the Dulles South area. Initially opening with an enrollment of only 609 students^[2] (partially due to the lack of a senior class its first year), John Champe's size has more than tripled in the years since.

The school temporarily shifted to an intermediate system in the 2018-2019 school year, with Willard Intermediate School serving 8-9th grade and Champe serving 10-12th grade. This ended when Lightridge High School opened its doors in the fall of 2020.^[3] In the 2018-2019 school year, John Champe shifted rising freshmen residing in the Brambleton Middle School attendance zones to Rock Ridge High School after a board meeting deciding to move those students temporarily for their ninth grade year instead of transferring to Willard intermediate school.

Demographics

As of the 2022-2023 school year, the school was 51.4% male and 48.5% female. The school's racial demographics were: 43.3% Asian, 29.7% White, 11.3% Black, 9.8% Hispanic, 5.4% multi-racial, and 0.5% other races. ^[4]

Enrollment history

Student Enrollment History
School Year	Number of Students
2012-2013^	609^
2013-2014	960^[5]
2014-2015	1,251
2015-2016	1,515
2016-2017	1,813
2017-2018	2,119
2018-2019^^	1,656
2019-2020	No known data
2020-2021	No known data
2021-2022	1,689^[6]
2022-2023	1,588^[4]

^ During the 2012-2013 school year there was no senior class.
^^Freshmen class attended Willard Intermediate School until opening of Lightridge High School in 2020.

Campus

The school sits on 97.76 acres^[7] just west of the Arcola and Stone Ridge communities.

References

^ "LCPS". LCPS. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
^ "LCPS Enrollment Sept. 2012" (PDF). LCPS. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 May 2013. Retrieved 18 April 2018.
^ "JOHN CHAMPE HIGH SCHOOL - 2018-2019 ATTENDANCE ZONE - WILLARD INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL" (PDF). LCPS. Retrieved 18 April 2018.
^ ^a ^b "LCPS Dashboards-School Profiles". dashboards.lcps.org. Retrieved 2023-07-30.
^ "School Board Adopted FY 2015-2020 Capital Improvement Plan" (PDF). LCPS. Retrieved 2023-06-15.
^ "Search for Public Schools - School Detail for JOHN CHAMPE HS". nces.ed.gov. Retrieved 2023-01-02.
^ "School Board Adopted FY 2014-2018 Capital Improvement Program" (PDF). LCPS. Retrieved 2 April 2013.