Editing Fairfax County, Virginia (section)

== Education ==
===K-12 education===
{{Further|Fairfax County Public Schools}}
[[File:George Mason Performing Arts.JPG|thumb|[[George Mason University]]'s performing arts center in [[Fairfax, Virginia|Fairfax]]]]
The county is served by the [[Fairfax County Public Schools]] system, to which the county government allocates 52.2% of its budget.<ref name="fy 2007">{{cite web|url=http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/dmb/advertised/FY2007/FY07_advertised_citizens_guide.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/dmb/advertised/FY2007/FY07_advertised_citizens_guide.pdf |archive-date=October 9, 2022 |url-status=live|title=Fairfax County Budget – FY 2007|date=February 27, 2006|publisher=Fairfax County|access-date=August 2, 2008}}</ref> Including state and federal government contributions, along with citizen and corporate contributions, this brings the 2023 budget for the school system to $3.5 billion. The school system has estimated that, based on the 2023 fiscal year budget, the county will be spending $18,772 on each student.<ref>{{cite web |date=July 1, 2023 |title=Fairfax County Public Schools - Budget |url=https://www.fcps.edu/sites/default/files/media/pdf/FY-2024-Approved-Budget.pdf |access-date=January 17, 2024}}</ref>

The Fairfax County Public School system contains the [[Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology]], a Virginia Governor's School. TJHSST consistently ranks at or near the top of all U.S. high schools due to the extraordinary number of National Merit semifinalists and finalists, its students' high average SAT scores, and the number of students who annually perform nationally recognized research in the sciences and engineering. A Governor's School, TJHSST draws students from five counties Fairfax County and other [[Northern Virginia]] counties, cities, and towns.

[[Catholic Church|Catholic]] elementary and middle schools in the county fall under the [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Arlington]] and include [[Paul VI Catholic High School]], Fairfax County's diocese-run Catholic high school, and [[Oakcrest School (McLean, Virginia)|Oakcrest School]], an all-girls Catholic school in Fairfax County, which is not run by the diocese.

===Colleges and universities===
{{Further|George Mason University|University of Fairfax|VCU School of Medicine}}
[[George Mason University]] is just outside the city of [[Fairfax, Virginia|Fairfax]], near the geographic center of Fairfax County. [[Northern Virginia Community College]] (NVCC) serves Fairfax County with campuses in [[Annandale, Virginia|Annandale]] and [[Springfield, Virginia|Springfield]] and a center in [[Reston, Virginia|Reston]] that is a satellite branch of the Loudoun campus. The NVCC [[Alexandria, Virginia|Alexandria]] campus borders Fairfax County. The [[CIA University|Central Intelligence Agency University]] and its [[Sherman Kent School for Intelligence Analysis]] are both located in Fairfax County, specifically in [[Chantilly, Virginia|Chantilly]] and [[Reston, Virginia|Reston]] respectively. 
George Mason University faculty have twice won the [[Nobel Prize in Economics]]. George Mason University economics professors [[James M. Buchanan]] and [[Vernon L. Smith]] won it in 1986 and 2002, respectively.<ref>[http://walterewilliams.com/another-nobel-laureate/ Another Nobel Laureate] Walter E. Williams, GMU, Department of Economics, October 14, 2002</ref>

The [[University of Fairfax]], a for-profit [[proprietary college]] and alleged [[diploma mill]] was once headquartered in [[Vienna, Virginia]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=List of Black Listed Universities in USA |url=http://www.msinus.com/content/427-black-listed-universities-usa/comments3.html |access-date=June 4, 2023 |website=MS in US |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=du Plessis |first=Carien |date=March 1, 2015 |title=SA's US ambassador in new 'dodgy degree' drama |url=https://www.news24.com/news24/sas-us-ambassador-in-new-dodgy-degree-drama-20150301 |access-date=June 4, 2023 |website=News24 |language=en-US}}</ref> [[Virginia Commonwealth University]]'s [[VCU School of Medicine|School of Medicine]] recently constructed a medical campus wing at [[Inova Fairfax Hospital]] in order to allow third- and fourth-year medical students to study at other state-of-the-art facilities in [[Northern Virginia]].<ref name="vcu inova">{{cite web|url=http://www.inova.org/clinical-education-and-research/education/education-for-students/vcu-school-of-medicine-inova-campus/index.jsp|title=VCU School of Medicine – Inova Campus|publisher=Virginia Commonwealth University|access-date=April 30, 2009|archive-date=May 13, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090513124519/http://www.inova.org/clinical-education-and-research/education/education-for-students/vcu-school-of-medicine-inova-campus/index.jsp|url-status=dead}}</ref>