Harper Park Middle School, 701 Potomac Station Drive NE: grades 6-8, 875 students in fall 2025, state rating Meets Expectations. Call 571-252-2820.
Last checked Oct. 23, 2026. Sources: Harper Park Middle School, Loudoun County Public Schools, the Virginia Department of Education’s School Quality Profile, the federal NCES school directory and LCPS’s 2026-27 elementary, middle and high school zone layers.
Harper Park Middle School, at 701 Potomac Station Drive NE, is the middle school for eastern and southeastern Leesburg, grades 6 to 8. Every address in its zone goes on to Heritage High. It is run by Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS), the county-wide school division.
Who to call
- Front office: 571-252-2820
- Enrolling a new student: LCPS Registration Services, 571-252-2490, and online pre-registration
- Which school serves an address: LCPS Planning and GIS Services, 571-252-1050, or the LABEL address lookup
- Buses: LCPS Transportation, 571-252-1700 (transportation page)
- LCPS central office: 21000 Education Court, Ashburn, 571-252-1000
| Address | 701 Potomac Station Drive NE, Leesburg, VA 20176 |
| Grades | 6 to 8 |
| Main phone | 571-252-2820 |
| Website | lcps.org/o/hpm |
| School division | Loudoun County Public Schools |
Principal
Principal Stacee Huffer, according to the school’s website.
Enrollment and teachers
- State count: 875 students in fall 2025, compared with 858 in 2024 and 881 in 2023, in the School Quality Profile.
- Federal count: 880 students in the 2023-24 school year with 72 full-time-equivalent teachers, according to the NCES directory. That works out to about 12 students per teacher.
State report card
Virginia rates each school two ways on its School Quality Profile. Accreditation shows whether the state has approved the evidence the Standards of Accreditation require. The School Performance and Support Framework gives each school a score and one of four performance levels: Distinguished, Meets Expectations, Approaching Expectations or Needs Intensive Support, as listed in the LCPS division summary.
- Accreditation, 2025-26: Fully Accredited
- Framework score: 87.84, rated Meets Expectations, in the division summary
Standards of Learning pass rates (share of tested students who passed), from the School Quality Profile:
| Subject | 2023-24 | 2024-25 | 2025-26 |
|---|---|---|---|
| English reading | 75% | 79% | 77% |
| Math | 74% | 73% | 75% |
| Science | 70% | 79% | 67% |
The full profile also reports attendance, teacher data and spending.
Attendance zone
Every address in the Harper Park Middle zone goes on to Heritage High for 2026-27. The elementary zones inside it, by share of its 7,591 county address points: Cool Spring Elementary (33%), John W. Tolbert Jr. Elementary (29%), Frederick Douglass Elementary (18%), Richard and Mildred Loving Elementary (15%) and Ball’s Bluff Elementary (5%). Of those address points, 4,424 (58%) are inside the Leesburg town limits; the rest are in unincorporated Loudoun County.
Check one address in the LCPS LABEL lookup or on the division’s 2026-27 zone maps, or call Planning and GIS Services at 571-252-1050. Our neighborhoods guide lists the zoned schools for each Leesburg community.
How we checked: we matched Loudoun County’s 140,704 address points against LCPS’s 2026-27 elementary, middle and high school zone layers and the town boundary. LCPS does not publish a feeder list, so the feeder lines and shares are our count; the zone lines are the division’s own.
Calendar and bell times
From the 2026-27 LCPS calendar the School Board adopted:
- Wednesday, Oct. 28: end of the first quarter
- Thursday, Oct. 29, to Tuesday, Nov. 3: no school for students (Election Day is Nov. 3)
- Monday, Nov. 9: holiday
- Wednesday, Nov. 25, to Friday, Nov. 27: Thanksgiving break
- Monday, Dec. 21, to Friday, Jan. 1: winter break; classes resume Monday, Jan. 4
- Monday, March 22, to Friday, March 26: spring break
- Friday, June 11, 2027: last day of school
Weather closings are posted on the LCPS inclement weather page.
Students may enter the building at 8 a.m., advisory starts at 8:30 a.m. and the last block ends at 3:18 p.m. on the regular schedule, according to the school’s bell schedules. The full bell schedule is on the school’s website.
More on Leesburg schools
- The school’s own page: lcps.org/o/hpm
- The state’s School Quality Profile for Harper Park Middle
- Every public school in Leesburg, with zones and state ratings
- Our Leesburg schools guide for the calendar, registration and the School Board
Frequently asked questions
What grades does Harper Park Middle School serve?
Grades 6 through 8. The state counted 875 students in fall 2025.
How is Harper Park Middle School rated by the state?
It is fully accredited for 2025-26. In Virginia’s School Performance and Support Framework it scored 87.84 and is rated Meets Expectations.
Which high school does Harper Park Middle feed into?
Heritage High. Every address in its zone goes on to Heritage High on the LCPS 2026-27 zone maps.
Who is the principal of Harper Park Middle School?
Stacee Huffer, according to the school’s website.
What time does Harper Park Middle School start?
Advisory starts at 8:30 a.m. and the regular day ends at 3:18 p.m. Students may enter from 8 a.m.
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