Yorktown High School, Arlington: zone, report card and calendar

Last checked Oct. 19, 2026. Sources: Yorktown High School, Arlington Public Schools, the Virginia Department of Education’s School Quality Profile, the federal NCES school directory, Yorktown athletics and the VHSL alignment.

Yorktown High School is the Arlington Public Schools (APS) neighborhood high school for most of North Arlington. It sits at 5200 Yorktown Blvd. and serves grades 9 to 12. Its teams are the Patriots.

Who to call

• Main office: 703-228-5400 (fax 703-228-5409)
• Registrar: 703-228-5408; counseling and transcripts: 703-228-5403
• Attendance office: 703-228-5411; clinic: 703-228-5390
• Activities and athletics: 703-228-5389
• New to APS (registration): APS Welcome Center, 703-228-8000, option 1; 2110 Washington Blvd., first floor
• Buses and general questions: APS main line, 703-228-8000

Phone numbers are from the school’s About Us and contact numbers pages.

Principal

Principal Bridget Loft, according to the school’s website.

Enrollment and teachers

• APS count: 2,214 students on Sept. 30, 2026: 595 ninth graders, 539 in 10th grade, 584 in 11th and 496 in 12th, in APS’s official membership summary (PDF). The count leaves out 38 Yorktown-zone students who attend Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Fairfax County. APS also runs a small early childhood pre-K class at Yorktown, nine children this fall.
• State count: 2,574 students in fall 2025, down from 2,600 in 2024 and up from 2,497 in 2023, in the School Quality Profile. The state’s figure is higher than APS’s. APS lists H-B Woodlawn, Arlington Tech, Langston and other countywide programs separately, and Virginia publishes no separate profile for them.
• Federal count: 2,494 students in the 2023-24 school year, with 143 full-time-equivalent teachers, according to the NCES directory. That works out to about 17 students per teacher.

State report card

Virginia’s School Performance and Support Framework scores each school on mastery on state tests, growth, readiness and graduation, according to APS’s framework page. Schools scoring 90 or more are Distinguished, 80 to 89 Meets Expectations, 65 to 79 Approaching Expectations and below 65 Needs Intensive Support.

• 2026-27 framework score: 100.3, rated Distinguished, with no federal identification, in the division summary (PDF).
• Accreditation: Fully Accredited
• On-time graduation: 97%. Of 652 students in the 2025-26 cohort, 635 graduated on time: 470 with an advanced studies diploma, 159 with a standard diploma and six with other diplomas. The completion rate was 98%, and 14 students (2%) dropped out.
• Advanced courses: 1,283 students, 50% of the school, were enrolled in Advanced Placement courses in 2025-26, and 264 (10%) in dual enrollment, according to the profile.

Standards of Learning pass rates (share of tested students who passed), from the School Quality Profile:

Attendance zone

APS assigns neighborhood schools by home address. Check an address in the APS boundary locator or on the 2026-27 high school boundary map (PDF).

On APS’s boundary maps, all of the Williamsburg Middle zone lies inside the Yorktown zone, along with most of the Dorothy Hamm Middle and Swanson Middle zones and a small part of the Kenmore Middle zone. At the elementary level, the Yorktown zone takes in all of the Discovery, Jamestown, Nottingham and Tuckahoe zones, most of Cardinal, Innovation and Taylor, about half of Glebe and parts of Ashlawn and Arlington Science Focus.

Calendar and bell times

From the APS 2026-27 calendar:

• Wednesday, Oct. 28: early release, all schools
• Monday, Nov. 2: end of first quarter
• Tuesday, Nov. 3: no school for students (Election Day)
• Wednesday, Nov. 11: Veterans Day, no school
• Nov. 25-27: Thanksgiving break
• Dec. 23 to Jan. 1: winter break
• March 22-26, 2027: spring break
• Thursday, June 17, 2027: last day of school, early release

The school day runs 8:20 a.m. to 3:10 p.m., with early release at 1 p.m., according to APS.

Sports and activities

Yorktown plays in Class 6, Region D, Liberty District, according to the VHSL alignment. The district’s other schools are George C. Marshall, Herndon, Langley, McLean, Wakefield and Washington-Liberty.

Winter tryouts start Monday, Nov. 9, for basketball, wrestling and swim and dive; Wednesday, Nov. 11, for gymnastics; and Monday, Nov. 16, for indoor track, winter crew conditioning and cheerleading, according to Yorktown athletics. Rifle tryouts also begin Nov. 9 for members of the fall club. Students must register online and upload a VHSL physical first. The athletics site lists 2026 state championships in swim and dive and in individual gymnastics on the bars, and 2025 state titles in girls lacrosse and crew.

The school’s AP page and advanced academics office cover Advanced Placement and gifted services.

Follow the Patriots on our Friday night football page and the high school scoreboard.

More on Arlington schools

• Yorktown High School’s website and the APS schools and programs page
• Every public school in Arlington, with zones and state ratings

Frequently asked questions

What grades does Yorktown High School serve?

Grades 9 through 12. APS counted 2,214 students there on Sept. 30, 2026.

How is Yorktown High School rated by the state?

It is fully accredited. In Virginia’s 2026-27 School Performance and Support Framework it scored 100.3 and is rated Distinguished, with no federal identification.

What is Yorktown High School’s graduation rate?

97%. Of 652 students in the 2025-26 cohort, 635 graduated on time, according to the state’s School Quality Profile.

Which middle schools feed Yorktown High School?

All of the Williamsburg Middle zone, most of the Dorothy Hamm and Swanson zones and a small part of the Kenmore zone lie in the Yorktown zone on APS’s boundary maps. Check an address in the APS boundary locator.

What time does Yorktown High School start?

8:20 a.m. to 3:10 p.m., with early release at 1 p.m., according to Arlington Public Schools.