The Potomac School
The Potomac School is a coeducational, college-preparatory independent day school located on a wooded 90-acre campus in McLean, Virginia, United States, three miles from Washington, D.C. Average class size is 15-17 students.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: School
- Description: independent school in McLean, Virginia, United States
- Also known as: “Potomac School”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Central Intelligence Agency and Clemyjontri Park.
Central Intelligence Agency
Military installation
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The George Bush Center for Intelligence is the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency, located in the unincorporated community of Langley in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States, near Washington, D.C. The headquarters is a conglomeration of the Original Headquarters Building and the New Headquarters Building and sits on a total of 258 acres of land. Central Intelligence Agency is situated 1 mile northeast of The Potomac School.
Clemyjontri Park
Park
Clemyjontri Park is a 2-acre park in McLean, Virginia, opened in 2006, which boasts a setting for children of all abilities to congregate. It is located in the McLean area of Fairfax County, Virginia, at 6317 Georgetown Pike. Clemyjontri Park is situated 3,500 feet north of The Potomac School.
Kryptos
Work of art
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kryptos is a sculpture by the American artist Jim Sanborn located on the grounds of the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters, the George Bush Center for Intelligence in Langley, Virginia. Kryptos is situated 1¼ miles north of The Potomac School.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Langley and Salona.
Langley
Suburb
Photo: Patrickneil, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Langley is an unincorporated community in the census-designated place of McLean in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. The name "Langley" often occurs as a metonym for the Central Intelligence Agency, whose headquarters, the George Bush Center for Intelligence, is in Langley.
Salona
Neighborhood
Photo: Mckaysalisbury, CC BY 3.0.
Salona, in McLean, Virginia, is a former plantation house on the National Register of Historic Places surrounded by land protected by two conservation easements.
McLean
Photo: Beltway Photos, CC BY 2.0.
McLean is a Northern Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C. located in Fairfax County, Virginia, in the southern United States of America.
The Potomac School
- Category: education
- Location: Fairfax County, Northern Virginia, Virginia, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
38.93561° or 38° 56′ 8″ northLongitude
-77.15413° or 77° 9′ 15″ westElevation
259 feet (79 metres)Open location code
87C4WRPW+69OpenStreetMap ID
way 172464052OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=school
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In Other Languages
From Egyptian Arabic to Swedish—“The Potomac School” goes by many names.
- Egyptian Arabic: “مدرسة بوتوماك”
- French: “Potomac School”
- Hebrew: “בית הספר פוטומק”
- Indonesian: “Sekolah Potomac”
- Swedish: “Potomac School”
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