Editing Annandale, Virginia (section)

==Education==
===Public schools===
{{Further|Annandale High School|Fairfax County Public Schools}}
[[File:Annandale High School Feb 2022.jpg|thumb|Annandale High School]]
Educational institutions in Annandale include facilities operated by the [[Fairfax County Public Schools]]. [[Annandale High School]], founded in 1954, is the main area public high school although [[Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology]], [[Falls Church High School]], [[Wilbert Tucker Woodson High School|Woodson High School]], and [[Justice High School]] also take in small portions of Annandale. Other schools include Edgar Allan Poe Middle School, Annandale Terrace Elementary School, Braddock Elementary School, Belvedere Elementary School, Glasgow Middle School, Woodburn Elementary School, Camelot Elementary School, Columbia Elementary School, Canterbury Woods Elementary School ([[Wakefield, Fairfax County, Virginia|Wakefield CDP]]), and Wakefield Forest Elementary School.<ref name="Northern Virginia School Rankings (New Report)">{{cite web|url=http://www.city-data.com/forum/northern-virginia/332865-nova-school-rankings-new-report-2.html |title=NoVA School Rankings New Report|access-date=July 1, 2010}}</ref>

Annandale High School has one of the area's few International Baccalaureate Degree programs. Ensembles within the school's choral program have performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., as well as many European venues.<ref name="Annandale High School's IB program">{{cite web|url=http://www.ibo.org/school/001272/ |title=IBO's Profile for Annandale High School|access-date=July 1, 2010}}</ref>

===Private schools===
Private Catholic schools in the Annandale area, of the [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Arlington]], include [https://web.archive.org/web/20110826195523/http://school.holyspiritchurch.us/ Holy Spirit Catholic School] (Wakefield CDP), [http://www.stambroseschool.org/ St. Ambrose Catholic School], and [http://www.stmikes22003.org/ St. Michael's Catholic School].

Private schools located in Annandale include Grasshopper Green], Kenwood School], Hope Montessori School], Montessori School of Northern Virginia, Oakwood School,  Pinecrest School, and [[Westminster School (Annandale, Virginia)|Westminster School]].

===Colleges and universities===
{{Further|Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale}}
The [[Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale|oldest and largest branch]] of the [[Northern Virginia Community College]] system is also located within Annandale and was founded in 1965. A focal point of "NOVA", a commonly used nickname of the community college, is the Richard J. Ernst Community Cultural Center which is a {{convert|66000|sqft|m2|adj=on}} facility containing a 525-seat, state-of-the-art theater with satellite downlink and video projection capability, an {{convert|11000|sqft|m2|adj=on}} gymnasium/exhibition hall, a light-filled atrium entrance and a two-story art gallery. The college opened with 761 students, and today has more than 75,000 students and 2,600 faculty and staff members, and has six permanent campus sites across Northern Virginia. The student body consists of people from more than 180 countries.<ref>{{cite web|title=About NOVA|url=http://www.nvcc.edu/about-nova/index.html|access-date=November 8, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102045548/http://www.nvcc.edu/about-nova/index.html|archive-date=November 2, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The campus, which has an Annandale postal address, is part of [[Wakefield, Fairfax County, Virginia|Wakefield]].<ref name=WakefieldVACDPmap>{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/dc10map/GUBlock/st51_va/place/p5182371_wakefield/DC10BLK_P5182371_001.pdf|title=2010 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK MAP: Wakefield CDP, VA|publisher=[[U.S. Census Bureau]]|access-date=December 5, 2020}} - Compare campus addresses to the CDP map.</ref><ref name=Campusaddress>{{cite web|url=https://www.nvcc.edu/annandale/index.html|title=Annandale Campus|publisher=Northern Virginia Community College|access-date=December 5, 2020|quote=8333 Little River Turnpike, Annandale, VA 22003|archive-date=August 5, 2002|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020805122652/http://www.nvcc.edu/annandale/|url-status=bot: unknown}}-  and [https://web.archive.org/web/19961112162806/http://www.nv.cc.va.us/campus/ in 1996] - Compare the physical location to the CDP map.</ref> The bureau defined the campus as being in the Annandale CDP for the [[1990 United States census]] and the [[2000 United States census]],<ref>2000 Map: {{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/blk2000/st51_Virginia/Place/5101912_Annandale/CBP5101912_000.pdf|title=CENSUS 2000 BLOCK MAP: ANNANDALE CDP|publisher=[[U.S. Census Bureau]]|access-date=December 5, 2020}} - Pages [https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/blk2000/st51_Virginia/Place/5101912_Annandale/CBP5101912_001.pdf 1] and [https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/blk2000/st51_Virginia/Place/5101912_Annandale/CBP5101912_002.pdf 2].<br>
1990 Map: [https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/blk1990/st51_Virginia/51059_Fairfax/90B51059_000.pdf index map]. Annandale CDP is on pages [https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/blk1990/st51_Virginia/51059_Fairfax/90B51059_019.pdf 19], [https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/blk1990/st51_Virginia/51059_Fairfax/90B51059_020.pdf 20], [https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/blk1990/st51_Virginia/51059_Fairfax/90B51059_024.pdf 24], [https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/blk1990/st51_Virginia/51059_Fairfax/90B51059_025.pdf 25], and [https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/blk1990/st51_Virginia/51059_Fairfax/90B51059_026.pdf 26].</ref> but in 2010 separated the area with the NVCC campus into a new CDP.<!--Apparent from how it's now in Wakefield CDP-->