Six yearbooks produced by staffs at five Fairfax County public schools are among sixty-five yearbook publications that have been chosen as finalists for the Crown award by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association. All of the publications listed below will receive either a Gold or Silver Crown at the award ceremony at Columbia University on March 18, 2016.

The Crown award finalists are Odyssey at Chantilly High School, Techniques at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, The Clan at McLean High School, The Lair at  Lake Braddock Secondary School and Above and Beyond and Sentry at Robinson Secondary School.