John Champe High School, serving Ashburn: zone and report card

Last checked Oct. 19, 2026. Sources: John Champe 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.

John Champe High School is in Aldie, at 41535 Sacred Mountain Street, and its 2026-27 zone reaches a small corner of Ashburn ZIP code 20148. Of 8,023 county address points zoned for John Champe, 174 (2%) carry an Ashburn ZIP code, by our count. It serves grades 9 to 12 in Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS).

Who to call

• Front office: 703-722-2680, 8:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday to Friday
• Attendance: Attendance line 703-722-2682 or jchattendance@lcps.org
• 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 Melissa Sargeant, according to the school’s website.

Enrollment and teachers

• State count: 1,914 students in fall 2025, compared with 1,855 in 2024 and 1,744 in 2023, in the School Quality Profile.
• Federal count: 1,740 students in the 2023-24 school year, with 126 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: 93.96, rated Distinguished, in the division summary
• On-time graduation: 99%. Of 435 students in the 2025-26 cohort, 430 graduated on time: 326 with an advanced studies diploma, 100 with a standard diploma and four with other diplomas. The completion rate was 99%, and one student 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 John Champe High zone and the Gum Spring Middle zone are the same for 2026-27: every address zoned for Gum Spring Middle goes on to John Champe High. The elementary zones inside it, by share of its 8,023 county address points: Arcola Elementary (31%), Liberty Elementary (25%), Pinebrook Elementary (18%), Goshen Post Elementary (12%), Hovatter Elementary (9%) and Elaine E. Thompson Elementary (5%). Of those address points, 174 (2%) carry an Ashburn ZIP code, 20147 or 20148. The Ashburn addresses are all in the part of the Elaine E. Thompson Elementary zone that feeds Gum Spring Middle; the rest of the Elaine E. Thompson zone is split between Stone Hill Middle and Brambleton Middle.

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 (effective Oct. 5, 2026), according to the school’s website (bell schedules).

Sports and activities

John Champe High plays in Class 5, Region D, Catoctin District for 2026-27, according to the VHSL alignment. The district’s other schools are Broad Run, Loudoun County, Park View and Woodgrove. Its teams are the Knights.

The John Champe athletics site carries rosters, schedules and the LCPS athletic registration link.

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/jch
• The state’s School Quality Profile for John Champe 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 John Champe High School serve?

Grades 9 through 12. The state counted 1,914 students in fall 2025.

How is John Champe High School rated by the state?

It is fully accredited for 2025-26. In Virginia’s School Performance and Support Framework it scored 93.96 and is rated Distinguished.

Which middle school feeds John Champe High School?

Gum Spring Middle. Every address in its zone goes on to John Champe High.

What time does John Champe 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 (effective Oct. 5, 2026), according to the school’s website.

Who is the principal of John Champe High School?

Melissa Sargeant, according to the school’s website.