Congratulations to the pictured seniors, who were selected by audition to participate in the VMEA Honors Choir. Over 500 students auditioned; Langley had 7 of the 132 students selected. Langley also had 3 students who placed first in their voice part. These students will be attending the event in Covington, Virginia on November 20 – 22, culminating in a concert at the Homestead for the State Music Conference.

The October PTSA newsletter is available on this website. Go to the "Parents" drop-down menu at the top of the page and click "PTSA Newsletter," then click the link for the "October 2008" PDF file.

If you are not receiving weekly Keep in Touch messages you most likely need to update your email address.   It’s easy: all you have to do is update your child’s Emergency Care Information.  We encourage parents to access and update their child’s emergency care information online by using weCare@school, a web tool within FCPS 24-7: Parent View.  If you need assistance with a Parent View account, please contact 1-866-434-8880.  You may also fill out or update your child's emergency care information form and return it to the main office.  Please call the school if you continue to have problems receiving KIT messages.

The Saxon Scope is the LHS student newspaper. To subscribe or become a patron of The Saxon Scope, read this letter from Principal Matt Ragone, complete with subscription information.

The Shire is the LHS yearbook. Yearbook information is now available through a new website: Langley Yearbook. Portrait make-up day and yearbook ordering information are now listed.

Langley High School's cell phone rules and penalties are posted here. There is also information on the "Honor Code" page under the "About Us" link at the top of this page.

To earn foreign language credit for a native language other than English, you may take the foreign language proficiency test. These tests are intended for students who are fluent in one of the 16 tested languages. For more information, read these documents: FLCE Brochure, FLCE Registration, FLCE Testing Sites

Quality education is essential to the well-being of our society, and good teachers are the foundation of our educational system.  The Washington Post Company Educational Foundation established the Agnes Meyer Outstanding Teacher Awards to recognize teachers who exemplify excellence in their profession.  The award honors by awarding $3,000 to an outstanding teacher selected in each of the 19 local public school systems. Langley High School submits a nominee each year

To nominate a teacher for this honor, please fill out the short nomination form available at the Langley PTSA website and e-mail it to Meena Krishnan.  Nominations are due Oct 31. Please e-mail Meena Krishnan with any questions.

The NEWSWEEK list of top U.S. high schools was compiled this year, as in years past, according to a single metric, the proportion of students taking college-level exams: Cambridge, International Baccalaureate and Advanced Placement. We count the total number of these tests taken at a school by all students each May, and divide by the number of graduating seniors. More...

Langley High School appears on the Newsweek list as #55 in the country and the highest ranked of the FCPS high schools.

From Massachusetts to California, a look at the schools that excel in teaching students. There are more than 18,000 public high schools in the United States. What if you could take a snapshot of each one and capture, at a particular moment, what kinds of students were enrolled there and the caliber of the education provided them? If you were to collect these individual snapshots into one huge national yearbook, which high school would be chosen as "Most Likely to Succeed," meaning that it set the best example of how to prepare students to achieve their post-graduation goals? More...

On the Challenge Index ranking of school districts, based on average college-level test participation in each jurisdiction, Falls Church, with a rating of 4.176, ranked second. Fairfax, at 2.852, ranked fourth in the region. The ratings are the number of college-level tests given in all grades, per graduating senior...Other than Jefferson, the highest Fairfax school on the list was Langley High, which ranked fourth of 186 schools. More...