Annandale High School

Annandale is for Easy Commuting Lovers

by Marina Brito, Realtor®

The Annandale HS boundary is located inside the Capital Beltway, with easy access to Washington DC via I-395, and to Maryland via I-495. To the south of the boundary you can find the Springfield Interchange – an amazing network of highways interconnecting the Northern Virginia area to Washington, DC and beyond.

However, driving can be a challenge during rush hours – but don’t worry. Annandale has a healthy supply of bus routes going out in many directions, as well as the Virginia Railway Express (VRE) for trips via rail to the Pentagon and into DC.

About the Annandale HS boundary

What’s great
Easy access to major employment centers (Tysons, DC, Pentagon, & Military Bases)
Commuting bus routes are very convenient
Access to the Virginia Railway Express (VRE) for trips to the Pentagon & Union Station

What you should know
Traffic within the major commuting routes can be challenging at times
Some schools’ scores are lower than in surrounding highly-competitive boundaries

Why move here
Good Schools
Several commuting options
Convenient location inside the Beltway

Schools in the Annandale High School Boundary

The Annandale boundary is the attendance area for Annandale High School – home of the Atoms, Holmes and Poe Middle Schools, and 6 feeder elementary schools. In addition, the famous Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology is located within this boundary – although “TJ” has its own admissions process and is not a Fairfax County Public school, but rather is a Governor School.

Annandale High School boundary & feeder schools (2014-2015)

Average of Standard of Learning (SOL) Scores (June 2012)

School	School Score	Fairfax County
Thomas Jefferson High	100	89
Annandale High	90	89
Holmes Middle	90	89
Poe Middle	85	89
Elementary Schools
Annandale Terrace	69	89
Braddock Elementary	83	89
Bren Mar Park Elementary	82	89
Columbia Elementary	87	89
Mason Crest Elementary	n/a	89
North Springfield Elementary	87	89
Weyanoke Elementary	76	89

Homes in the Annandale High School Boundary

The Annandale Boundary offers an affordable variety of options for buying a home. Last school year (2013-2014), over 300 homes sold within this boundary, with prices ranging from $125K to $1.3 Million, with an average price of about $403K.

The Annandale boundary is an ideal place to live for people who want easy access to major employment centers: Tysons, Washington D.C., The Pentagon, as well as Military Bases; both via automobile as well as via public transit.

Within the Annandale boundary, there are almost an even amount of detached single family homes compared with townhomes + condos available for sale. In addition, home prices in Annandale are consistent with the average price in Fairfax County.

SOLD Home prices (School year 2013-2014)

Home Type	Low	Average	High
Detached (195)	$275K	$544K	$1.3M
Townhome (84)	$234K	$403K	$629K
Condo (61)	$125K	$212K	$334K

See all the homes for sale within the Annandale HS boundary

Finding a home by school can be a challenge

If you have tried to find a home by school before, you have probably found that it’s a challenge to cross-reference homes for sale on a typical home search website with their assigned school.

Simply finding homes “near” the school won’t do

The issue with typical home search websites is that they only display homes by city or zip code. Some of them display homes “near” the school. Well, that won’t do you any good since school boundaries span cities, zip codes, and just being “near” the school doesn’t mean that the home belongs to that boundary.

You want a home INSIDE the Annandale high school boundary. Not just “near” it…
The good news is that we have put together the only interactive map where you can find homes for sale INSIDE the Annandale High School boundary. Plus, you can also see points of interest such as shopping and hospitals. Click to search:

Find homes for sale
(inside the Annandale HS Boundary)
Click to launch the full-page interactive “Find a Home by School” app.