Table of Contents:
- Message from the President
- Announcement from Academic Boosters
- All Night Grad (ANG)
- Donate
- Upcoming Events
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Message from the PTSA President
Hello Fairfax High School Families, Teachers, and Staff,
Thank you to those who came out in September for our first meeting! We had some great ideas for school events, fundraisers, and membership! Do you have an idea for the PTSA? Come to our next meeting and tell us about it!
When setting the budget, the PTSA set a goal for membership, to fund our events. If you haven’t already, please help us attain that goal by signing up the whole family today!!! Your membership goes a long way! Right now we are at about 40% of that goal, so please help us do all we can for FHS and join today!!
Thank you,
Patti Coates
FHS PTSA President
President@fairfaxptsa.org
PTSA stands for Parents, Teachers and Students!
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JOIN the PTSA to support our FHS teachers, students, and community! Your member dues and donations work to fund all of our activities and programs, help keep you engaged and informed about what is happening in our school community and provide opportunities to get involved if your time permits.
Parent/Adult: $20, Teacher/Staff: $12, FHS Student: $8.
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2025-2026 Meeting Schedule; Third Tuesday of every month at 7pm unless noted:
October 21 - Career Center
November 18 - Library
December 16 - Library
January 20 - Library
*February 24- fourth Tuesday - Library
March 17 - Library
April 21 - Library
*May TBD
Calendar Reminder, PSAT/SAT Day Oct 8; 2HR Early Release
Early Checkout Form due by October 7th @ Noon
A reminder that ALL high schools will administer the PSAT/NMSQT and SAT on Wednesday, October 8, 2025. Standard PSAT/NMSQT and SAT school day testing requires approximately three hours to administer. A two-hour early release is scheduled for all high school and secondary school students on PSAT/SAT Day to provide staff development or to allow teacher-directed time.
High school academy courses will not be held on October 8, 2025, and all high school shuttles are canceled for the day. High school academy staff will support based school activities.
12th Grade - Students who signed up to take the SAT will be in school. Seniors who have not signed up for the SAT will have an unscheduled school day. Seniors are encouraged to complete any missing work as well as work on their college applications if applicable.
If your student has decided to NOT take the SAT, please have them complete this Google Form. They will need to be logged into their fcpsschools.net account.
10th & 11th Grade - Students are expected to be at school to take the PSAT/NMSQT. If your student is not taking the PSAT/NMSQT, please make sure to notify the appropriate attendance line. Students are already pre-registered by FCPS.
Early Checkout- If you'd like your student to be dismissed early at 11:30 a.m., please fill out the provided form. The deadline for submitting the early dismissal form is noon on October 7, 2025. Parents and guardians will not be permitted to enter the building or check out their student until after 11:30 a.m.
9th Grade - Unscheduled day for most students and they will be at home. Ninth grade students are encouraged to complete any missing work or assignments that need to be completed prior to the end of the first quarter.
Please note that students with disabilities taught on an adapted curriculum (students receiving low incidence special education services) will continue to receive in-person instruction with a 2-hour early release on October 8.
If you have questions about the PSAT/NMSQT administration or alternative activities, please contact Leslie Trieu latrieu@fcps.edu.
Mock SAT (digital) or Mock ACT (paper)
FHS Academic Boosters is partnering with Applerouth Tutoring to offer the Mock SAT (digital format) and the Mock ACT (paper format) exams twice this school year: Saturday, November 1st and Saturday, March 7th.
This is a perfect opportunity for students who haven’t started their testing to become familiar with the format in a stress-free environment at FHS for only $25. Students will receive detailed score reports to help them determine which areas they need to study.
Students taking the Mock SAT must bring a fully charged computer.
NOVEMBER 1 TESTS
1. Mock (digital) SAT registration (limited to 75): Cost $25
2. Mock (paper) ACT registration (limited to 50): Cost $25
MARCH 7 TESTS:
1. Mock (digital) SAT registration (limited to 75): Cost $25
2. Mock (paper) ACT registration (limited to 50): Cost $25
Questions: Academicboosters@fairfaxptsa.org.
All Night Grad (ANG)
At back to school night so many parents came forward offering to help with ANG! The best way to do that is by joining our our monthly meetings to keep up with what is going on with ANG. Attending the early meetings is very important as a budget needs to be set, fundraisers need to be discussed, and decisions need to be made for the event itself. There are plenty of great ideas, but we need people to execute them!! ANG is a PTSA committee but has it’s own budget, fundraising, and planning involved.
Please fill out the attached Google Form to be placed on an email list for ANG updates.
Send me ANG Info!
Next Meeting: Tuesday, October 21st at 8 pm, after the PTSA meeting in the Career Center!!
- Overview of event
- ANG Committee Chairs
- Update on Craft Fair Fundraiser in November
- Parent donations and volunteer opportunities coming soon!! We need a LOT of help with this event. It is ANG’s Biggest fundraiser so we need to make the most of it! Parents of all grades as well as students are welcome to sign up.
- Set Budget
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