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Arlington County is an urban county of about 200,000 residents in the Commonwealth of Virginia, in the U.S., directly across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C. Originally part of the District of Columbia, the land now comprising the county was retrocede to Virginia in a July 9, 1846 act of Congress that took effect in 1847. At 26 square miles, it is one of the geographically smallest Counties in the United States. It is the location of Arlington National Cemetery and the Pentagon.
Arlington is served by the Arlington Public Schools system. The public high schools in Arlington are Yorktown High School, Washington-Lee High School, Wakefield High School, and the H-B Woodlawn program. Arlington is also home to Bishop O’Connell, a Roman Catholic high school.
The Middle Schools in Arlington include Swanson Middle School, Williamsburg Middle School, H-B Woodlawn Program, Kenmore Middle School, Thomas Jefferson Middle School, and Gunston Middle School.
Elementary Schools include Ashlawn Elementary School , Zachary Taylor Elementary School, Jamestown Elementary School, and Nottingham Elementary School, among others.
Arlington County spends about half of its revenue on education, making it one of the top ten per-pupil spenders in the nation (as of 2004, over $13,000, the second highest amount spent on education in the United States, behind New York City).
Through an agreement with Fairfax County Public Schools approved by the school board in 1999, up to 26 students residing in Arlington per grade level may be enrolled at the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Fairfax at a cost to Arlington of approximately $8000 per student. For the first time in 2006, more students (36) were offered admission in the selective high school than allowed by the previously established enrollment cap.
George Mason University operates an Arlington campus in the Virginia Square area between Clarendon and Ballston. The campus is home to the School of Law, School of Public Policy and other programs. A new building is under construction at the campus, set to open in 2007 and supplement the capacity of the Original Building and the Law Building.
Satellite campuses of Northern Virginia Community College, Strayer University and DeVry University can be found in Arlington. Marymount University, a private four-year college, also calls the county home.