Loudoun County High School, 415 Dry Mill Road SW: grades 9-12, 1,257 students in fall 2025, state rating Distinguished. Call 571-252-2000.
Last checked Oct. 23, 2026. Sources: Loudoun County 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.
Loudoun County High School, at 415 Dry Mill Road SW, is the high school for the J. Lupton Simpson Middle zone, which takes in most of western and southern Leesburg, grades 9 to 12. It is run by Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS), the county-wide school division.
Who to call
- Front office: 571-252-2000, 8:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
- 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 | 415 Dry Mill Road SW, Leesburg, VA 20175 |
| Grades | 9 to 12 |
| Main phone | 571-252-2000 |
| Website | lcps.org/o/lch |
| School division | Loudoun County Public Schools |
Principal
Principal Michelle Luttrell, according to the school’s website.
Enrollment and teachers
- State count: 1,257 students in fall 2025, compared with 1,334 in 2024 and 1,409 in 2023, in the School Quality Profile.
- Federal count: 1,406 students in the 2023-24 school year with 120 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: 90.1, rated Distinguished, in the division summary
- On-time graduation: 94%. Of 376 students in the 2025-26 cohort, 352 graduated on time: 253 with an advanced studies diploma, 96 with a standard diploma and three with other diplomas. The completion rate was 94%, and 19 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 | 93% | 91% | 93% |
| Math | 72% | 77% | 78% |
| Science | 73% | 75% | 77% |
The full profile also reports attendance, teacher data and spending.
Attendance zone
The Loudoun County High zone and the J. Lupton Simpson Middle zone are the same for 2026-27: every address zoned for J. Lupton Simpson Middle goes on to Loudoun County High. The elementary zones inside it, by share of its 6,444 county address points: Catoctin Elementary (49%), Evergreen Mill Elementary (28%), Frederick Douglass Elementary (12%) and Sycolin Creek Elementary (11%). Of those address points, 4,467 (69%) 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 posts its bell schedule on its website.
Sports and activities
Loudoun County High plays in Class 4, Region C, Catoctin District for 2026-27, according to the VHSL alignment. The district’s other schools are Broad Run, John Champe, Park View and Woodgrove. Its teams are the Captains.
The Loudoun County High athletics site carries schedules, tickets and results. Its fall results include football, field hockey, boys and girls volleyball and girls flag football; the site lists the full sports menu.
In 2025-26, 442 students took Advanced Placement courses and 400 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
- The school’s own page: lcps.org/o/lch
- The state’s School Quality Profile for Loudoun County High
- 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 Loudoun County High School serve?
Grades 9 through 12. The state counted 1,257 students in fall 2025.
How is Loudoun County High School rated by the state?
It is fully accredited for 2025-26. In Virginia’s School Performance and Support Framework it scored 90.1 and is rated Distinguished.
Which middle school feeds Loudoun County High?
J. Lupton Simpson Middle. Every address zoned for J. Lupton Simpson Middle goes on to Loudoun County High.
Who is the principal of Loudoun County High School?
Michelle Luttrell, according to the school’s website.
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