The U.S. News and World Report has ranked Falls Church’s George Mason High School the fifth best in Virginia in its school rankings edition. Mason is also ranked by the magazine 140th out of 29,070 high schools nationally.
Rankings of other area schools in Virginia include the magnet Thomas Jefferson School for Science and Technology, ranked first in the state and third in the nation, Langley High School ranked second in the state, W. T. Woodson ranked third and McLean High School fourth, Oakton High School sixth, James Madison High School seventh, Yorktown High School 12th, and George Marshall High School 16th.