Potomac Falls High School opened in 1997. It was the first high school built in the county in 21 years, following Park View's opening in 1976. The high school design for Potomac Falls has been used for every new high school built in Loudoun County since then.
Stone Bridge opened in 2000 with Potomac Falls' design, but with a larger auditorium and some additional classrooms.
Heritage,
Dominion,
Briar Woods,
Freedom,
Woodgrove,
Tuscarora,
John Champe, also all use the same design. The design remained but was updated for
Rock Ridge and
Riverside.
Lawsuits Demmon v. Loudoun County Public Schools, 342 F.Supp.2d 474 (E.D. Va. 2004) – As a fundraiser, a parent organization offered parents and community members the opportunity to purchase and order inscriptions for paving bricks to be placed in a sidewalk around the flagpoles at Potomac Falls High School. Purchasers could choose text and/or symbols to be inscribed on the bricks. Some purchasers paid to have their bricks inscribed with a Latin cross. After one parent complained, school officials removed from the walkway every brick containing a cross symbol. Case Status – The court held that free speech rights of parents were violated where the school removed bricks inscribed with a Latin cross. The court held that symbols were not school-sponsored speech; and that a walkway where the bricks were displayed constituted a designated or limited public forum and that the school engaged in prohibited “
viewpoint discrimination.” The bricks were later reinstated. ==Demographics==