1. Remember The Titans in which approximately 25 percent of the student body
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competes. T.C. Williams is one of only two school districts
in Virginia to require a 2.0 grade point average for athletic
eligibility.
Perhaps most widely known for its 1971 championship football team More than 68 percent of the school’s student athletes
achieved a 3.0 or higher grade point average last year. In
depicted in the popular film “Remember the Titans”, T.C. Williams
addition to the school’s on-site sports facilities, the district
High School enjoys a world-class reputation as one of the most
owns and maintains a rowing facility on the Potomac River
respected, comprehensive and diverse high schools in the country. for its crew participants. T.C. Titan teams compete in the
Patriot District in the Northern Region of the Virginia High
School League.
The school’s rich history of success at all levels of
competition includes winning the 2008 Virginia Boys’ TC Williams Womens Crew Team
Varsity Basketball Championship, 2007 Girls’
Varsity Basketball District Championship and 2007
Boys Tennis Team District Championship. The 2008-09
Girls’ Varsity Basketball Team includes Senior Guard
Tierra Ruffin-Pratt, one of the top-ranked players in the
country.
Professional athletes who graduated from T.C.
Williams include former NFL linebackers Keith Burns,
Carl Carr and Ratcliff Thomas and Philadelphia Eagles
running back Tony Hunt.
Most T.C. faculty members hold advanced degrees,
and many have been recognized for their outstanding
teaching. The school’s extensive course offerings include
24 Advanced Placement classes, seven honors classes,
numerous courses in 25 Career and Technical Education
fields and five years of four languages. T.C.
Williams’ combination of first-rate faculty and staff and
a broad academic curriculum ably prepares students for
life after high school. Many students have won awards
at numerous statewide and national academic, scientific
and technical skills competitions, and 95 percent of
the school’s graduates continue on to postsecondary
education, attending such elite institutions as Brown,
Columbia, Cornell, Princeton, the University of Virginia
and the College of William and Mary. The school’s
distinguished alumni, representing a wide array of career
fields, include such luminaries as actors Dermot and
Women’s Field Hockey, Player Cara Donley
Kieran Mulroney, Jason Butler Harner, Donnell Rawlings,
Diedrich Bader and Chip Esten; musicians Alexander Kerr, network service which provides access to the same resources.
Tom Cunningham and Kat Mills; award-winning director The school celebrates its diversity through more than 55 clubs
Christopher Quinn; chefs Rock Harper and Carl Stanton; and activities, and perpetuates the legacy established by the
TCW Titans Football Team - Captains Ethan Stine, Jamal Ford, Coach Dennis Randolph, Carlos Canales, and Quntas McCorkle (images courtesy: Kerry Donley)
journalists Katherine Boo and Edward Wong; Virginia’s famous
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Assistant Secretary of Education Douglas M. Garcia; and 1971 Titans, whose understanding and acceptance of each
.C. captivates students with such highlights as the Green Innovation Award for Best Institutional Project
David Bray, former information technology chief for the other’s different races, beliefs and backgrounds set a positive
contemporary, colorful food court-like dining area, from the Virginia Sustainable Building Network, as well
Bioterrorism Program at the Centers for Disease Control example for the entire community and forged a winning team.
classrooms decked out with high-tech equipment as The U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED “Green
and Prevention. Perhaps the ultimate testament to the The T.C. Williams High School Army Junior Reserve Officers’
and special lighting designed to facilitate learning, Building Rating System”. Its environmentally sound
power of a T.C. Williams education is the fact that many Training Corps
expanded visual and performing arts facilities, and features include a rooftop garden to provide storm
graduates return to Alexandria City Public Schools as (JROTC) Drill Team and Color Guard was one of only three
a huge gymnasium that accommodates 2,800 water management, a 450,000-gallon underground
teachers, principals and assistant superintendents. Virginia groups selected to march in the 2009 Presidential
enthusiastic Titan fans. The only public high school cistern to collect and store rainwater for use in
Every student is issued a laptop computer for use at Inaugural Parade. In 2007, T.C.
in Alexandria boasts a unique student body, cutting restrooms’
home and in class as part of the High School Technology Williams photography teacher (and T.C. alumnus) Taki
edge technology, an extensive academic curriculum, flushing, and a permanent measurement and
Integration Project, where students can access and Sidley and his students created “We Are the
champion scholar athletes and an award-winning, verification system to track water and energy usage at
complete course assignments, collaborate on projects, Titans: A Profile of Diversity at One American High School.”
environmentally friendly new building. The October the facility. Natural light fills the halls and classrooms
participate in discussions and complete assessments The book’s photos and essays showcase a mere sampling of
2007 Grand Opening Community Celebration unveiled of the widely acclaimed building, named Project of
online. At school, students use a high-speed wireless the school’s more than 2,000 2,000 10th through 12th graders,
the $90 million ‘New T.C. Williams’, a beautiful the Year in the Education category of Mid-Atlantic
Diplomas & Curriculum network which provides who hail from more than 84 countries and speak more than
structure designed by Moseley Architects and built by Construction ‘BEST OF 2007 Awards’and recipient
connectivity to applications, e-mail, the Internet and 56 languages. Now and always, the tradition of excellence
the Hensel Phelps Construction Company. of a 2008 Honor Award for distinguished contribution
printing services. continues, and Titan Pride reigns supreme!
Hundreds of Alexandrians of all ages have toured to community appearance from the Community
Classrooms are also equipped with high-tech visual
the state-of-the-art, “Green” building, from tiny “future Appearance Alliance of Northern Virginia.
and audio presentation systems to support instruction. Tel +1.703.824.6800
Titans” to long-time residents whose grandchildren Titan athletics continue to play an important role
Away from school, each laptop computer has 56k dial-up www.acps.k12.va.us/tcw
now attend the school. The “New T.C.” received a at the school, which offers 18 interscholastic sports
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TC Basketball, Championship Winning Shot
Runner Brad Kenimer