Thomas A. Edison High School (Fairfax County, Virginia)

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Thomas Alva Edison High School
Address
5801 Franconia Road Alexandria , Virginia 22310 United States
Information
School type	Public, high school
Motto	"As eagles we soar"
Established	1962
School district	Fairfax County Public Schools
Principal	Amanda Burke
Staff	Approximately 230
Grades	9–12
Enrollment	2,151[1] (2020-2021)
Campus	Suburban
Color(s)	Red, white, and navy blue
Athletics conference	National District Northern Region
Mascot	Eagles
Rivals	Hayfield Secondary School, Mount Vernon High School
Feeder schools	Mark Twain Middle School, Wendell Holmes Middle School
Website	www.fcps.edu/EdisonHS

Thomas Alva Edison High School is one of 25 high schools in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. Thomas Edison is an International Baccalaureate school.

Edison High School has traditionally been a relatively small public high school in terms of the size of its student population. It has a culturally and ethnically diverse student body. Since the mid 1990s it enrolled students of Australian, Korean, Eritrean, Vietnamese, Chinese, Thai, Cambodian, Polish, Italian, Mexican, Colombian, Ghanaian, Cameroonian, and Pakistani ancestries or nationalities. The diverse religious backgrounds of the students that have included students that identify as Buddhists, Christians, Jews, Muslim, and others. The school's diversity reflected the massive influx of immigrants to the Northern Virginia region.

In the 1990s, the school's debate and forensics teams gained widespread and even national recognition for their achievements in those fields. Its academic team has appeared on the local television quiz bowl game show It's Academic, which is broadcast by the local Washington, DC PBS affiliate station and substation, WETA PBS (main) and WETA METRO (substation).

Edison's graduates have typically moved on to attend local and state colleges and universities such as Virginia Tech, the University of Virginia, George Mason University, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Northern Virginia Community College. Prominent graduates of the school include Eric Barton, a professional football player with the National Football League.

In both 1996 and 1997 Edison's theater club won second place and then first place and the regional level of the VHSL one-act play festival.