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Demographics
LCPS has a diverse population, and is becoming more diverse ethnically, especially with Hispanic and Asian enrollments increasing significantly since the late 1990s. Since the 1999-2000 school year, Hispanic and Asian enrollments in LCPS have more than tripled, compared with White and Black enrollments, which have grown about 50% in the same time period.

Hispanic American enrollment growth is countywide, but is highest and is most heavily concentrated in Leesburg and Sterling. Most of the Asian enrollment growth is from Indian Americans who comprise the majority of Asian students in Loudoun, in contrast with neighboring Fairfax County Public Schools where Korean Americans comprise the majority of Asian enrollment. Vietnamese American and Filipino American enrollment is second to Indians among Asians; there are also small amounts of Korean American and Chinese Americans in some areas. Asian American growth has been highest in South Riding, Aldie, and Sterling.

High schools
Loudoun County currently has ten high schools. Older high schools such as Loudoun Valley, Broad Run and Park View can carry about 1,300 students without difficulty. Loudoun County High School's expansion and renovation will allow it to carry about 1,600 students once the project is complete in the 2006-2007 school year; previously, Loudoun County could only carry about 1,200 students, with the help of six trailer classrooms. Potomac Falls is the first of six new high schools built in the last ten years, which has a capacity of 1,600 students. High schools built since 2000, when Stone Bridge opened, have capacities of around 1,800 students each.

Advanced Programs
All Loudoun County high schools participate in the Advanced Placement (AP) program for students who wish to take college level courses in high school. Toward the end of the year, each student takes a special exam which could earn him or her credits toward fulfilling general education requirements in college. Because of the difficulty and fast pace of these courses, there is a .7 weight added to the grade a student has in the course for GPA purposes (a grade of C is normally a 2.0, but a C in an AP course is a 2.7).

LCPS offers AP courses in:


 * US Government and Politics
 * US History
 * World History
 * Psychology
 * English Literature and Composition
 * English Language and Composition
 * Calculus AB


 * Calculus BC
 * Statistics
 * Computer Science A
 * Computer Science AB
 * Physics C (Mechanics and Electricity and Magnetism)
 * Chemistry


 * Biology
 * Spanish
 * French
 * German
 * Latin (General Literature and Vergil's Aeneid)