Washington Lee High School Archives

President Obama will speak to Washington-Lee High School Juniors and Seniors

May 3, 2012 by Elizabeth

President Obama will visit Washington-Lee High School on Friday, May 4. As part of the visit, the White House has invited W-L juniors and seniors to attend an assembly in the gymnasium where the President will talk about the importance of ensuring affordable opportunities for students for higher education, including federally-subsidized loans, to acquire the skills students need to find a good job in the future. The interest rate on these loans is scheduled to double on July 1 if Congress does not act to prevent that from happening. The event is not open to the public. Traffic around the school may be redirected and the W-L pool will be closed until 4 p.m.

#307 – Support a Local Artist and the Local Schools

February 9, 2011 by Elizabeth

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Arlington artist Sandi Parker‘s inMOTION: celebrating Arlington high school athletics is on display at Cassatt’s through 2/27. Her collection of original oil paintings include high school teams and individual athletes in a variety of sports from Washington-Lee and Yorktown high schools where her children are students. A percentage of proceeds will be donated to the schools.

#278 – Attend a Joint Choral Concert at W-L

January 11, 2011 by Elizabeth

The Washington-Lee High School choral department will be hosting a Pyramid Concert for students in grades 4-8 at elementary and middle schools that feed into W-L performing along with the W-L students. The concert will be held on Thursday, January 13th, 2011 at 7 PM in the W-L auditorium. Yorktown High School will be performing a similar concert in May 2011.

#250 – Get In The Swim

December 13, 2010 by Elizabeth Bouchard

The new Washington-Lee pool — Image by alykat via Flickr

Below freezing temperatures this time of year might keep you from exercising outdoors but you can still get a good workout by swimming at one of Arlington’s three indoor swimming pools, located at the three public high schools. Washington-Liberty’s natatorium just opened in 2009 and features a 25 meter x 25 yard pool with a movable bulkhead, two 1m springboards, a separate instructional pool, a wet classroom and a spectator area. The other two pools are six lane 25 yard pools with a separate instructional tank. The pools open for community swim as early as 5:30 a.m. and stay open some days to 8:30 at Wakefield and Yorktown and 9:30 at Washington-Liberty. There are designated lap lanes, open swim areas, a tank pool for children and they offer swimming and aqua fitness classes. Daily passes are available or you can purchase multi-use passes or memberships. Free swim times for Arlington Seniors and Arlington Children and Youth are also available each week. Check the Arlington Public Schools Aquatics website for more information and links to community swim schedules, lane and tank availability, class descriptions, and fees.

The pools are located at:

Wakefield High School 4901 S Chesterfield Rd, Arlington, VA 22206, 703-578-3063
Washington-Liberty High School 1300 N. Quincy Street, Arlington, VA 22201, 703-228-6262
Yorktown High School 5201 N. 28th Street, Arlington, VA 22207, 703-536-9739

They are currently offering gift cards for memberships so if there is an avid swimmer on your gift list you might want to check it out.

17 Arlington Students Named National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists

September 17, 2010 by Elizabeth Bouchard

National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists are the highest scoring entrants in each state and represent less than one percent of the nation’s seniors. For 2010, ten Yorktown High School students, four Washington-Lee High School students, two HB Woodlawn secondary program students and one student from Wakefield High School were among the 16,000 students named nationally. In addition, four students from Arlington County attending Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (in Fairfax), have been named National Merit semifinalists. These students will have the opportunity to compete for approximately 8,200 Merit Scholarship awards totaling $36 million.

Washington-Lee Summer Concert Series

July 8, 2010 by Elizabeth Bouchard

The US Army Band begins it’s “Washington-Lee Summer Concert Series” tonight, July 8th at 7:30 with the US Army Blues bringing their high-energy and artistic verve to this program featuring big-band classics and new compositions by its members.

The series continues on July 22nd with the US Army Ceremonial Band and July 29th with the U.S. Army Band Downrange with Washington-Lee High School student and Arlington Idol 2010 winner, Sophia Delmar.

The U.S. Army Concert Band performs August 5th and the U.S. Army Orchestra closes out the sereis on August 12th.

All performances will be held at the Washington-Lee High School Auditorium in Arlington and are free and open to the public.

For a complete schedule, including other local venues, click here.