Senior Section

GRADUATING CLASS INFORMATION

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Senior Parent Meeting Slides (from 1/23/2024)

View the Class of 2024 Senior Parent Meeting slides here.

Graduation Yard Signs

Purchase a graduation yard sign that will recognize your graduate and inform the community of their accomplishment. Each sign is an 18” x 24” yard sign and individually customized with the graduate’s name. The price is $25 per sign.

The Graduate Yard Signs are available now on PTSA’s MemberHub online store: https://fairfaxhs.memberhub.com/store

Would you like to buy your yard signs and make a donation to the All Night Graduation Celebration to help our Seniors celebrate SAFELY? There are several packages to choose from in the PTSA MemberHub online store.

The sign will be placed (by the All Night Grad Committee) outside FHS along Lion Run on Graduation Day. You can also buy additional signs to place in yards and windows.

June 4 - Graduation [Click to Expand]

Graduation

Families of Seniors,

We are so excited to honor your student at our graduation on Tuesday, June 4th at 9:00 am.

Please review the following information regarding your senior for the week of graduation:

Thursday, May 30th:

The Senior Grad Walk is a traditional event, where a group of graduating seniors visit Katherine Johnson Middle School and several of our elementary schools to walk the halls, thanking the staff and inspiring the younger students. Space is limited on the buses and participation will be on a first come, first serve basis. Please SIGN UP early to participate.

Monday, June 3rd:

Graduation Rehearsal. Attendance at the graduation rehearsal is mandatory. Seniors are to report to the cafeteria by 10:00 am. There will be a senior class picnic immediately following the graduation rehearsal.

Tuesday, June 4th:

Graduation is in our Stadium at 9:00 am. Seniors should report in caps and gowns to the Field House by 7:30 am. Seniors have been encouraged to only bring their car keys with them to graduation. We cannot provide a secure location for backpacks/bags and students will not re-enter the building following the ceremony.

Gates will open for the general public at 8:00 am. All guests MUST remain in the bleachers during the entire ceremony. Pictures will be taken from the bleachers and not from the fence lining the track.

General Seating:

Graduation tickets are not required for the outdoor ceremony.

If you wish to be able to sit in a location in the stadium where you can face your senior as they cross the stage, we recommend that you ask your senior where they sat during the graduation rehearsal on June 6. If your student is on the left side facing the stage (likely to be students with last names beginning with A-K), we recommend you sit on the HOME side of the stadium. If your student is on the right side facing the stage (likely to be students with last names beginning with L-Z), we recommend you sit on the VISITOR side of the stadium. Most parking/shortest walk will be on the Home side and certainly you will have a great view of the ceremony no matter where you sit!

Handicapped Seating

We designate the concrete pad and the upper row of the HOME side bleachers for elderly and handicap seating, and those accompanying guests who have special seating needs. We also reserve a row on the track, on the VISITOR side for the same purpose (guests needing ground level access and one guest accompanying them). Anyone seeking handicapped seating is encouraged to complete this Google Form: https://forms.gle/SgBLyZKDF1oPiBxBA

Handicapped Parking

We reserved the entire Field House parking lot for handicapped parking. Anyone who needs to park in this lot must have handicap license plates or a handicap placard hanging from the rear view mirror. We will have a drop-off location (no parking, but drop-off only) on the loop in front of the ticket booth at the stadium. Guests requesting special seating and preferring to sit on the VISITOR side of the stadium are invited to use the drop off at the lower gate by the concession stand (please enter from Rt. 50 - drop off is not accessible if you enter from Blenheim Blvd). There are limited, first-come-first-served handicap-reserved parking spaces on Lion Run with direct access to the VISITOR side track/bleachers.

Parking on Graduation Day:

We expect thousands of people to attend our ceremony, and so parking will be limited at the high school. To make more parking spaces available at our school, we encourage seniors to be dropped off or to carpool with friends. Once our lot is full, we cannot permit any more vehicles to park on school grounds.

Guest Parking and Shuttle Service:

Guest parking will be available at Home Depot ,3201 Blenheim Blvd, Fairfax VA 22030 . Shuttle service will run from 7am-12 noon.

Inclement Weather Plan:

If the weather forces us to change the location of graduation, it will be announced by 9:00 am on June 3rd via all traditional school communication channels. In that event, we will hold graduation in the Field House at 9:00 am on Tuesday, June 4th if the ceremony is moved indoors all guests will require a ticket. Tickets are distributed to seniors (5 each) at the rehearsal on Monday, June 3rd.