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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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“Far in the forest, dim and old,
For her may some tall vault unfold—”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)
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—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1845)
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—Quentin Crisp (b. 1908)
“I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens, listening to that particular tragedy, by Sophocles, in which he introduces a full chorus of turkeys, who set about bewailing the death of Meleager.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1845)
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—Lawrence Sutton, British prizewinner in competition in Sunday Correspondent (London)
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—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)