Hayfield Secondary School

Go Hawks ! Some of my best memories happened while attending this school. Shout out to Ms. Kraut !

- Nahu, Class of 2012

There are many bad schools but I can certainly say that it does not work as it should be. Do not pay attention to the parents when one complains and there are too many irregularities, personally they do not even reach a star. It is unpleasant in general.

The most disorganized school staff I’ve ever encountered. I called to ask for English teachers shadowing opportunities for college. (I’m not an education major yet but was wondering if education was the right one for me). I got transferred to finance which was the wrong department. Then, the person that picked up the phone in the finance department transferred me to someone else. They kept me waiting for about 5 minutes and when they finally answered, they hang up on me. This is ridiculous!

It’s a great high school .staff very nice but of course nothing is perfect attendance office they never ever answer the phone even if you send a email you always receive calls that you son is absent. I don’t know what they do all day.

This school is positively diverse and in a great location. Most of the staff care about the students and want to help you at your time there. But some of the counselors just like to pick on you like Mr. Dodson. Don’t get on any of the teachers bad side and you’ll be fine. The students are very social and excepting. Good school

I've mixed feelings about this institution. I was part of the "boundary battles" back in the mid 2000s, when a large chunk of Hayfield Secondary's school population was "carved away" to attend the newly opened South County Secondary. (In fact, just go check Hayfield Secondary's school boundary on the FCPS website...one of the most laughably GERRYMANDERED school boundaries in the ENTIRE district.) I was part of the "hiring committee" that brought on board the late/great Dave Tremaine (one of our most accomplished leaders) as head principal until his untimely death in 2014, and I've served in various Hayfield Secondary PTSA capacities over the past decade (including 1st VP and President), until my youngest child graduated from HSS in 2015. Perhaps even more than the ugly, divisive school boundary battle in the mid-2000s (when FCPS did little to support Hayfield Secondary), the arguably WORST injustice was changing the school's assignment in its VHSL athletic conference to the Liberty Conference, where we have LITTLE to NO chance of winning, or even tying, any sort of sports competition with the other powerhouse high schools assigned to the conference. Thank you so much, FCPS and VHSL, for marginalizing an already struggling school in terms of identity and sports competition. I'm ashamed to admit it now...but if my kids were attending Hayfield Secondary today, I'd seriously consider moving to another part of FCPS...or out of the district altogether.

This is my second year there and for the most part, most of the teachers are pretty good. There are great programs/teachers for advanced students. Theres lots of school spirit and lots of extracurricular activities. There is all kinds of kids there and lots of diversity. But counselors are worthless. Lots of name calling, trash talk, ghetto behavior, and bullying going on and teachers/administrators could care less. The only thing they care about is if kids actually get into a physical fight which does happen quite often, then they take action. Christina Cashman acts like she is hot stuff because she can be really nasty to us, has no class, seems to hate kids and is really mean to most of the students, is a bully herself and uses her position to abuse us kids instead of helping us, and has the maturity level of a grade schooler. I

Yea the school might be diverse, but isn't that good? havent we been working on diversity in america for decades? people need to stop b*****ing because they want their school to be like the ones on t.v......thats never gonna happen....the teachers actually do care except for maybe a couple....but hayfield is so much better than a lot of schools i know...so quit complaining