Fort Hunt High School
8428 Fort Hunt Road, Alexandria, Virginia 22308

Opened: 1963
Closed: 1985
Why: The Fairfax County School Board, citing costs and declining enrollment.

First Graduating Class: Class of 1965
Last Graduating Class: Class of 1985
Fort Hunt High School merged with Groveton High School to form West Potomac High School using Groveton facilities, and combining the student bodies and staff of Groveton and Fort Hunt High Schools.
Current: Fairfax county converted Fort Hunt to Sandburg Middle School.

Trivia:

• Unique in that a large number of the students walked to school.
• Planetarium completed in January of 1970. Modernized after the fire of 1978. The planetarium has a Spitz A4 planetarium projector and a 30-foot diameter dome. It has 76 seats, 54 permanent and 24 folding chairs, in a unidirectional pattern.
• Fire destroyed much of Fort Hunt High School in 1978.
  

Fort Hunt High School Colors:
Green, Gold, White

Nickname:
Federals

Fort Hunt High School Fight Song Lyrics:

(Fight! Fight)
 
We are the mighty Federals
And We're out to win
 
(Fight! Fight)
 
We have an old tradition
To which we all are kin
 
(Fight! Fight)
 
The Green and White will battle
'Til victory is nigh
 
(Fight! Fight)
 
We'll always stand behind our team
From Fort Hunt High!

Music original name: The music is The Trio from Salutation, a march by R.F. Seitz, arr. by J.A. Scott.
We knew it as: The Green and White

You can hear three versions here .