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Which Middle Schools Had the Most Students Accepted to TJHSST?
Of the 3,121 students who applied to Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, 76 percent of applicants were from Fairfax County.
For the second consecutive year, the majority of students accepted to the incoming freshman class at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJHSST or TJ) will come from middle schools in Herndon and Falls Church.
According to data from Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS), Carson Middle School in Herndon had the most students accepted, a total of 64, for the class of 2017. Longfellow Middle School in Falls Church and Rocky Run Middle School in Chantilly each had 55 students accepted.
Last year, 76 students were admitted from Carson and 72 from Longfellow.
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A this year, according to statistics released by FCPS last week. Seventy-six percent of those students are from Fairfax County schools.
Fewer than ten students from both Whitman Middle School and Sandburg Middle School were admitted to TJHSST.
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