Briar Woods High School, Ashburn: zone, report card and calendar

Last checked Oct. 19, 2026. Sources: Briar Woods 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.

Briar Woods High School, at 22525 Belmont Ridge Road, serves grades 9 to 12 for the Eagle Ridge Middle zone in western Ashburn. It is one of five Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) high schools with an Ashburn address and one of two sites of the division’s Health and Medical Sciences (HAMSci) Academy.

Who to call

• Front office: 703-957-4400, 8:30 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.
• Attendance: Attendance requests go through ParentVUE
• 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, 6:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. (transportation page)
• LCPS central office: 21000 Education Court, Ashburn, 571-252-1000

Principal

Principal Sheila Alzate, according to the school’s website.

Enrollment and teachers

• State count: 1,909 students in fall 2025, compared with 1,865 in 2024 and 1,765 in 2023, in the School Quality Profile. The fall 2025 total includes 16 children in pre-K.
• Federal count: 1,763 students in the 2023-24 school year, with 124 full-time-equivalent teachers, according to the NCES directory. That works out to about 14 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: 102.24, rated Distinguished, in the division summary
• On-time graduation: 99%. Of 477 students in the 2025-26 cohort, 471 graduated on time: 392 with an advanced studies diploma, 76 with a standard diploma and three with other diplomas. The completion rate was 99%, and two students dropped out.

Standards of Learning pass rates (end-of-course tests, share of tested students who passed), from the School Quality Profile:

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

Attendance zone

The Briar Woods High zone and the Eagle Ridge Middle zone are the same for 2026-27: every address zoned for Eagle Ridge Middle goes on to Briar Woods High. The elementary zones inside it, by share of its 6,634 county address points: Waxpool Elementary (38%), Mill Run Elementary (37%) and Hillside Elementary (25%). Of those address points, 6,634 (100%) carry an Ashburn ZIP code, 20147 or 20148.

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 Ashburn community.

How we checked: we matched Loudoun County’s 140,707 address points against LCPS’s 2026-27 elementary, middle and high school zone layers. 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:

• Thursday and Friday, Oct. 29-30: no school for students
• Monday and Tuesday, Nov. 2-3: no school (Election Day is Nov. 3)
• Monday, Nov. 9: holiday
• Wednesday to Friday, Nov. 25-27: Thanksgiving break
• Dec. 21 to Jan. 1: winter break; classes resume Monday, Jan. 4
• March 22-26: spring break
• Friday, June 11, 2027: last day of school

The school day runs 9:30 a.m. to 4:18 p.m. on the regular schedule, with a warning bell at 9:25 a.m., according to the school’s website (bell schedules).

Sports and activities

Briar Woods High plays in Class 5, Region D, Potomac District for 2026-27, according to the VHSL alignment. The district’s other schools are Lightridge, Potomac Falls, Riverside and Stone Bridge. Its teams are the Falcons.

Teams listed on the Briar Woods athletics site: baseball, basketball, cheer, crew, cross country, field hockey, football, girls flag football, golf, gymnastics, lacrosse, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, indoor and outdoor track, boys and girls volleyball and wrestling.

Briar Woods is one of two sites of the LCPS Health and Medical Sciences (HAMSci) Academy, with Tuscarora High; the division lists a HAMSci information night at Briar Woods at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 11. The school’s page also links the Academies of Loudoun application and its clubs and activities.

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

More on Ashburn schools

• The school’s own page: lcps.org/o/bwh
• The state’s School Quality Profile for Briar Woods High
• Every public school in Ashburn, with zones and state ratings
• Our Ashburn schools guide for the calendar, registration and the School Board

Frequently asked questions

What grades does Briar Woods High School serve?

Grades 9 through 12. The state counted 1,909 students in fall 2025, including 16 in a pre-K class.

How is Briar Woods High School rated by the state?

It is fully accredited for 2025-26. In Virginia’s School Performance and Support Framework it scored 102.24 and is rated Distinguished.

Which middle school feeds Briar Woods High School?

Eagle Ridge Middle. Every address in its zone goes on to Briar Woods High.

What time does Briar Woods High School start?

Classes start at 9:30 a.m.; the school day runs 9:30 a.m. to 4:18 p.m. on the regular schedule, with a warning bell at 9:25 a.m., according to the school’s website.

Who is the principal of Briar Woods High School?

Sheila Alzate, according to the school’s website.