Oakton High School

Oakton High School is a public high school in unincorporated Fairfax County, Virginia, in proximity to the town of Vienna, in the United States. It is part of Fairfax County Public Schools in Northern Virginia. History Oakton High School was founded in 1967 in Vienna, Virginia. The original Oakton High School was located in the facility which Oakton Elementary School now uses. When it opened, Oakton was the host facility for an IBM 1401, which was Fairfax County's first computer. A computer curriculum, one of the first offered at the high school level, was available to full-time Oakton students and students from several other county high schools on a part-time basis. This system was retired in the early seventies when Fairfax County installed an IBM 360 mainframe at the Annandale campus of Northern Virginia Community College. In 1973, while W. T. Woodson High School in nearby Fairfax City was being repaired after an April 1 tornado struck and damaged it, Woodson students attended the remainder of the school year in a split shift at Oakton High School (Oakton students in the morning; Woodson students in the afternoon). The school was in the news in 2009 when it suspended, and threatened to expel, a student for taking a birth control pill while on school premises. The incident was referenced during the August 3, 2009 episode of The Colbert Report, with the show satirically portraying the student as a "druggie".