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Edgar Allan Poe Middle School (Cluster: 3; Grades: 6-8, website) is named after the author Edgar Allan Poe. Its mascot is the Raven. Sonya Swansbrough is the principal.
Most students feed into Annandale High School or J.E.B. Stuart High School. A select few also test into Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology.
Poe's 1,188 students during the 2007-2008 school year were 37.37% Hispanic, 23.57% White, 23.74% Asian, 11.70% Black, and 3.62% unspecified.
During the same school year, 51.68% of the student body received free/reduced-priced meals and 45.12% were classified as having limited English.
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“Romance, who loves to nod and sing,
With drowsy head and folded wing,”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)
“In spite of the air of fable ... the public were still not at all disposed to receive it as fable. I thence concluded that the facts of my narrative would prove of such a nature as to carry with them sufficient evidence of their own authenticity.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)
“It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1845)
“It glows with the light
Of the love of my Annie—
With the thought of the light
Of the eyes of my Annie.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)
“A person taking stock in middle age is like an artist or composer looking at an unfinished work; but whereas the composer and the painter can erase some of their past efforts, we cannot. We are stuck with what we have lived through. The trick is to finish it with a sense of design and a flourish rather than to patch up the holes or merely to add new patches to it.”
—Harry S. Broudy (b. 1905)
“Dissonance between family and school, therefore, is not only inevitable in a changing society; it also helps to make children more malleable and responsive to a changing world. By the same token, one could say that absolute homogeneity between family and school would reflect a static, authoritarian society and discourage creative, adaptive development in children.”
—Sara Lawrence Lightfoot (20th century)