Editing Fairfax County, Virginia (section)

===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.