Broad Run High School history

At a cost of $6,000, a separate school, known as Ashburn High School, was built for both elementary and high school white students in 1911.

The school served white Ashburn students until February 14, 1944, when the entire building was destroyed by fire.

1968 had been the first year that the county schools were completely racially integrated, making the previously all-black Douglass High School available as it closed and its population moved to other county schools. Thus, the first Broad Run High School class actually formed in 1968, a full year before the Broad Run Ashburn campus construction was completed.

Named for the nearby Potomac River tributary, Broad Run was dedicated on October 13, 1969.

Broad Run, therefore, had a "Thetamen" class for two years, its name for eighth graders (similar to calling ninth graders "Freshmen"). In 1976 a portion of the Sterling student body was moved to Park View High School.

By 1979 the Thetamen were shifted to newly opened middle schools.

As the Ashburn area grew considerably, additional students shifted to Potomac Falls High School in 1997.

Stone Bridge High School opened in 2000, which split the Ashburn student body into two different high schools.

Broad Run gave the remainder of its Sterling student population to Potomac Falls after Dominion High School opened in 2003 and shifted students in Brambleton and Arcola to Stone Bridge.

In 2005, Broad Run split off its South Riding students to Freedom High School.

And Stone Bridge split the students that lived in Brambleton and Broadlands to Briar Woods High School.. In 2014, Broad Run moved some of its students in the Ryan Park area to Rock Ridge High School.

In 2015, Broad Run shifted students who live in University Center and Potomac Farms to Riverside High School in Lansdowne in order to relieve overcrowding.

The male student was arrested and charged with two counts of forcible sodomy on July 8, 2021.