Editing Clifton, Virginia (section)

==Education==
{{Further|Fairfax County Public Schools|Fairfax High School (Fairfax, Virginia)}}
[[Fairfax County Public Schools]] serves Clifton. K-6 students in Clifton attend [[Union Mill Elementary School]],<ref name="Union Mill Elementary School">{{Cite web |url=http://commweb.fcps.edu/directory/map_base.cfm?locid=119 |title=Union Mill Elementary School Boundary Maps |publisher=Fairfax County Public Schools |access-date=May 2, 2013}}</ref> while middle and high school residents are zoned to either Liberty Middle School and Centreville High School or to [[Robinson Secondary School]].<ref name="Robinson Secondary School">{{Cite web |url=http://commweb.fcps.edu/directory/map_base.cfm?locid=2503 |title=Robinson Secondary School |publisher=Fairfax County Public Schools |access-date=May 2, 2013}}</ref> Clifton was home to Clifton Elementary School from 1954 to 2011, when the school was closed after the School Board determined the cost of modernization for the 1950s-era building to be too high.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fcps.edu/CliftonES/ |title=Clifton Elementary School |access-date=May 2, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130209042451/http://www.fcps.edu/CliftonES/ |archive-date=February 9, 2013}}</ref>

Clifton was home to Clifton High School from 1912 to 1935, when the school was torn down after the construction of [[Fairfax High School (Fairfax, Virginia)|Fairfax High School]].