2026 SESSION
ENROLLED
SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 104
Commending Woodley Hills Elementary School.
Agreed to by the Senate, February 19, 2026
Agreed to by the House of Delegates, February 23, 2026
WHEREAS, Woodley Hills Elementary School, an outstanding public primary school in Fairfax County, celebrates its 75th anniversary of service to young people in 2027; and
WHEREAS, Woodley Hills Elementary School, named for the nearby Woodley Hills community and constructed on land that was originally part of George Washington's Mount Vernon, was established during the fall semester of 1952; the school held its first few weeks of classes at Woodlawn Elementary School while the building was still under construction; and
WHEREAS, Woodley Hills Elementary School officially opened during the week of Thanksgiving on November 24, 1952, with a truckload of desks and books arriving just before the first buses of students reached the school; the school's inaugural principal, Charles R. Hughes provided important leadership while also teaching a class of fifth-grade and sixth-grade students; and
WHEREAS, Woodley Hills Elementary School opened with six classrooms and one multi-purpose room, which was used for physical education, art, and music programs; the school added six additional classrooms in 1955, followed by eight more in 1957, to keep up with the growing enrollment; and
WHEREAS, after Fairfax County Public Schools opened its first intermediate schools in 1960, seventh-grade students at Woodley Hills Elementary School began attending Walt Whitman Intermediate School; and