2026 SESSION
ENROLLED
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 282
Commending Glasgow Middle School.
Agreed to by the House of Delegates, March 10, 2026
Agreed to by the Senate, March 12, 2026
WHEREAS, in 2026, Glasgow Middle School, an outstanding intermediate school in Fairfax County, celebrated the 65th anniversary of its official opening in 1961; and
WHEREAS, Glasgow Middle School traces its origins to the late 1950s, when Fairfax County Public Schools voted to establish its first intermediate schools and the newly constructed Parklawn Elementary School was selected as a pilot school, teaching only students in seventh and eighth grades; and
WHEREAS, the pilot program was so successful that Fairfax County Public Schools implemented a plan to open eight more intermediate schools, the first of which was Glasgow Intermediate School; and
WHEREAS, Glasgow Intermediate School was named for Ellen Glasgow, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist from Richmond who supported the women's suffrage movement; and
WHEREAS, Glasgow Intermediate School was organized in 1959, but with its new building still under construction, held its first classes at Parklawn Elementary School and Falls Church High School; and