Yorktown High School (Virginia) - Demographics

Demographics

The school's demographic breakdown of the 2006-2007 school year is as follows:

• 67.8% Caucasian
• 15.6% Hispanic
• 8.7% Asian/Pacific Islander
• 7.4% African-American
• 0.1% American Indian/Alaskan Native

The vast majority of the school's students reside in the area of the county commonly called "North Arlington" which is the portion of the county north of Arlington Boulevard (US Rt. 50). The attendance area currently stretches from the high rise neighborhoods that border Washington, DC like Rosslyn, Courthouse and Clarendon in the northeastern part of the county to the more traditional neighborhoods of large single family homes in the northern and western parts of the county adjacent to the City of Falls Church, McLean and Upper Northwest (DC). The very small portion of McLean (22101) within Arlington County is under the jurisdiction of the Arlington Public Schools and its students attend Yorktown. Many of the neighborhoods in the Yorktown attendance area are also zoned to Washington-Lee High School. High school boundary changes between the two schools historically have occurred at least once every decade.