Franklin Middle School sits on Lees Corner Road in Chantilly, but part of its attendance area carries Herndon and Oak Hill mailing addresses. Through the 2026-27 school year, many homes in the Oak Hill Elementary School area attend Franklin for seventh and eighth grade. Starting in 2027-28, a new boundary moves those neighborhoods to Carson Middle and brings in the Crossfield Elementary area around Franklin Farm and Folkstone instead.
Franklin also sends its students to two different high schools, Chantilly and Oakton, depending on the address, so the middle school alone does not tell a buyer which high school a home feeds.
Franklin serves about 800 students in grades 7 and 8
- Address: 3300 Lees Corner Road, Chantilly, VA 20151
- Phone: 703-904-5100
- Principal: Tom DeRusso
- Grades: 7 and 8
- Enrollment: 791 students at the end of the 2025-26 school year, according to the FCPS school profile
- High schools: Chantilly or Oakton, depending on address
- State accreditation: Fully Accredited, according to its Virginia School Quality Profile
- Website: Franklin Middle School
Franklin students passed state reading tests at 86 percent
On the Standards of Learning tests, Virginia’s annual exams in reading, math and science, 86 percent of Franklin students passed reading in 2025-26, 82 percent passed math and 79 percent passed science, according to the school’s Virginia School Quality Profile. Across FCPS, counting every tested grade, the pass rates were 80 percent in reading, 80 percent in math and 76 percent in science. The state accredits Franklin fully and did not identify it for any federal support and improvement designation for 2025-26.
Niche, which blends test data with parent and student surveys, gives Franklin an A and ranks it 29th of 382 public middle schools in Virginia. GreatSchools rates it 8 out of 10.
Franklin offers advanced academics and a free after-school program
Franklin runs an Advanced Academic Program for students identified through FCPS’s Advanced Academic Programs process, along with honors-level courses in individual subjects for students who qualify.
Its after-school program is free and runs Monday through Friday until 5 p.m., which gives working parents a supervised option on the same campus.
Today, Franklin serves part of Oak Hill and sends its students to Chantilly or Oakton
Oak Hill is a community with Herndon mailing addresses, and through the 2026-27 school year many homes near Oak Hill Elementary School on Kinross Circle attend Franklin and then Chantilly High School. Oak Hill Elementary sits about a mile and a half from Franklin by car. Other parts of the same elementary school attend Rachel Carson Middle School instead, so neighbors a few streets apart can land at different middle schools.
Franklin also serves the Lees Corner Elementary area, whose students continue to Chantilly High, and part of the Navy Elementary area, whose students continue to Oakton High School. FCPS’s capital plan lists Franklin as a split feeder, the term for a middle school whose students go on to more than one high school.
Franklin trades its Oak Hill Elementary neighborhoods for the Crossfield area in 2027-28
The Fairfax County School Board’s July 16, 2026 vote on boundaries for Skyview High School also redrew Franklin’s attendance area, starting in the 2027-28 school year:
- About 177 middle schoolers in the Crossfield Elementary area, which includes Franklin Farm, Folkstone and Oak Farms, move from Carson to Franklin and keep Oakton as their high school. Our Crossfield Elementary guide covers that area.
- About 91 Franklin students in the Oak Hill Elementary area move to Carson and will continue to Skyview.
- About 111 Franklin students move to Stone Middle School in Centreville, and fewer than 10 move to Rocky Run Middle.
Franklin ran at 94 percent of its capacity of 844 students, and FCPS projects 89 percent after the changes, according to the superintendent’s boundary recommendation. Franklin remains a split feeder after the change, sending students to Chantilly or Oakton depending on the address. If you have a child at Franklin now, ask FCPS how the change applies to students already enrolled there.
Check the boundary locator before you write an offer
FCPS assigns students by street address, not by mailing city, ZIP code or community name. Before you make an offer on a home in Oak Hill or the Chantilly corridor:
- Enter the exact address in the FCPS Boundary Locator for this year’s assignment.
- Check the same address in the FCPS boundary explorer for 2027-28 and later.
- Look up both the middle school and the high school, since Franklin feeds two high schools.
- Call Franklin at 703-904-5100 with questions about programs or after-school care.
Franklin pairs above-average pass rates with a boundary that shifts toward Fox Mill Road in 2027
Franklin is a Chantilly middle school with pass rates above the FCPS average, an Advanced Academic Program and free after-school care. Through 2026-27 it serves part of Oak Hill, and starting in 2027-28 it takes in the Crossfield Elementary neighborhoods instead, with those students continuing to Oakton High.
If you are weighing homes in Oak Hill, Franklin Farm or the Chantilly corridor and want to know which middle and high school an address feeds, reach out to us. We can check any listing for this year and for 2027-28 before you make an offer.
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