The naming of new school facilities is guided by School Board Policy 6510, Naming School Facilities. Regulation 6510 applies only to the naming of an area of a school facility, grounds and/or program.   

School Renaming Project - Fact Sheet

In June 2020, the School Board initiated discussion on an action plan to combat systemic racism which included a review of all Loudoun County Public Schools facility names and mascots.  Criteria for this comprehensive review of LCPS facility names included:

• Determine if any schools have been named for Confederate leaders or the Confederate cause;

• Determine if any schools may have been named for individuals who lived in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries during the period when slavery was a fundamental part of the economic, cultural and political systems in Virginia and Northern Virginia; or 

• Determine whether any schools have been named for individuals or movements that promoted and implemented racial segregation laws in Virginia during the eras of Jim Crow and Massive Resistance in Virginia.

The school-by-school name review was divided into three phases to facilitate a more focused approach.  School names reviewed in Phase 1 included those with a potential association with the outlined research criterion.  Phase 2 included schools named after a person.  Phase 3 includes all other schools not previously reviewed by History Matters and which have been named for places, ideals or inanimate objects.