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From left: Thomas Jefferson seniors Jafar Kazmi of Great Falls, Kayleigh Vance of Vienna and Jackson Dubro of Falls Church talked about the new robotics lab’s steel and aluminum welding station and wall-climbing project.

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Thomas Jefferson Class of 2019: 70% Asian, 1.6% Black

Some say unbalanced admissions demographics at Northern Virginia’s top high school speaks to system-wide equity problems.

Consider: 70.2 percent Asian, 20.7 percent White, 5.1 percent Multiracial/Other, 2.4 percent Hispanic, 1.6 percent Black: This is the ethnic breakdown of the 493 students admitted to the 2019 class of the Fairfax County Public Schools magnet institution Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology.

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