Heritage High School, 520 Evergreen Mill Road SE: grades 9-12, 1,486 students in fall 2025, state rating Distinguished. Call 571-252-2800.

Last checked Oct. 23, 2026. Sources: Heritage High School, Loudoun County Public Schools, the Virginia Department of Education’s School Quality Profile, the federal NCES school directory, LCPS’s 2026-27 elementary, middle and high school zone layers and the VHSL alignment.

Heritage High School, at 520 Evergreen Mill Road SE, is the high school for the Harper Park Middle zone, which covers eastern and southeastern Leesburg, grades 9 to 12. It is also one of two LCPS schools that offer the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program. It is run by Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS), the county-wide school division.

Who to call
Address 520 Evergreen Mill Road SE, Leesburg, VA 20175
Grades 9 to 12, plus a pre-K class
Main phone 571-252-2800
Website lcps.org/o/hth
School division Loudoun County Public Schools

Principal

Principal Jeff Adam, according to the school’s website.

Enrollment and teachers

  • State count: 1,486 students in fall 2025, compared with 1,478 in 2024 and 1,541 in 2023, in the School Quality Profile.
  • Federal count: 1,508 students in the 2023-24 school year with 139 full-time-equivalent teachers, according to the NCES directory. That works out to about 11 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: 94.7, rated Distinguished, in the division summary
  • On-time graduation: 95%. Of 399 students in the 2025-26 cohort, 380 graduated on time: 272 with an advanced studies diploma, 104 with a standard diploma and four with other diplomas. The completion rate was 96%, and 17 students dropped out.

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 83% 94% 93%
Math 75% 79% 77%
Science 68% 73% 77%

The full profile also reports attendance, teacher data and spending.

Attendance zone

The Heritage High zone and the Harper Park Middle zone are the same for 2026-27: every address zoned for Harper Park Middle goes on to Heritage High. 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.

The school day runs 9:30 a.m. to 4:18 p.m., according to the school’s website. The full bell schedule is on the school’s website.

International Baccalaureate

Heritage is a fully authorized International Baccalaureate World School offering the Diploma Program, according to its IB page. The program is open to rising ninth graders from across the county through the LCPS IB program; formal IB coursework begins in 11th grade. LCPS’s other IB school is Loudoun Valley High in Purcellville.

The state counted 413 Heritage students in IB courses in 2025-26, in the School Quality Profile. LCPS lists an IB information night at Heritage at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 2.

Sports and activities

Heritage High plays in Class 4, Region C, Dulles District for 2026-27, according to the VHSL alignment. The district’s other schools are Dominion, Loudoun Valley, Rock Ridge and Tuscarora. Its teams are the Pride.

The Heritage High athletics site carries schedules, tickets and results. Its fall results include football, field hockey and boys and girls volleyball; the site lists the full sports menu.

In 2025-26, 524 students took Advanced Placement courses and 377 took dual enrollment courses, according to the School Quality Profile. Loudoun County students can also apply to the Academies of Loudoun, which they attend alongside their zoned high school.

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

More on Leesburg schools

Frequently asked questions

What grades does Heritage High School serve?

Grades 9 through 12. The building also holds a pre-K class. The state counted 1,486 students in fall 2025.

How is Heritage High School rated by the state?

It is fully accredited for 2025-26. In Virginia’s School Performance and Support Framework it scored 94.7 and is rated Distinguished.

Which middle school feeds Heritage High?

Harper Park Middle. Every address zoned for Harper Park Middle goes on to Heritage High.

Who is the principal of Heritage High School?

Jeff Adam, according to the school’s website.