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Wilbert Tucker Woodson High School, commonly known as W.T. Woodson High School or simply Woodson, (in the process of renaming to Carter G. Woodson High School) is a high school located in Fairfax County, Virginia, just outside the east end of the city of Fairfax limits, opposite the shopping center on Main Street. The school opened in 1962 and was once the largest school in the state. It is named for W. T. Woodson, who served as Fairfax County School Superintendent from 1929 to 1961. As of 2022-2023, the student population was 2,220. Woodson has the largest campus in Fairfax County in size of area, and also houses Woodson Adult High School, a separate education facility run by FCPS that allows adults to earn their GEDs and HS diplomas. Woodson has appeared multiple times on Newsweek magazine's lists of top or best high schools, including #23 (2003), #34 (2005), #90 (2006), and #74 (2008). Woodson has also appeared on the top high schools lists from U.S. News & World Report: #90 (2008), #116 (2013), #200 (2016), #365 (2019), and #280 (2020) The principal as of September 2023 is Kevin Greata.

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Fairfax County, officially the County of Fairfax, is a county in the Commonwealth of Virginia. It is part of Northern Virginia and borders both the city of Alexandria and Arlington County and forms part of the suburban ring of Washington, D.C., the nation's capital. The county is predominantly suburban in character with some urban and rural pockets. As of the 2020 census, the population was 1,150,309, making it the most populous jurisdiction in Virginia, with around 13% of the state's population, the most populous jurisdiction in the Washington metropolitan area, with around 20% of the MSA population, and the most populous location in the Washington–Baltimore combined statistical area, with around 13% of the CSA population. The county seat is Fairfax; however, because it is an independent city under Virginia law, the city of Fairfax is not part of the county.Fairfax was the first U.S. county to reach a six-figure median household income and has the fifth-highest median household income among all U.S. counties as of 2020. As part of the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, is usually included atop or near the top of lists of the wealthiest areas in the United States.The county is home to the headquarters of four intelligence agencies, the Central Intelligence Agency, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, National Reconnaissance Office, National Counterterrorism Center; the Office of the Director of National Intelligence is also based in the county. In academia, the county is home to the flagship campus of George Mason University, CIA University-Sherman Kent School for Intelligence Analysis, and several Northern Virginia Community College campuses. Seven Fortune 500 companies are headquartered in the country as of 2012.