Fort Hunt High School was a public secondary school near Alexandria, Virginia located at 8428 Fort Hunt Road.Constructed at a cost of $2.5 million, Fort Hunt High opened its doors toward the end of the post–World War II baby boom in 1963, as part of the Fairfax County Public Schools.The school suffered $4.5 million in fire damage as the result of arson on December 30, 1978 when three teenagers (two seniors at the school and a 1978 graduate) threw Molotov cocktails into the building. The fire resulted in the forced relocation of 1,700 students who were sent on a split shift to nearby Groveton and Mount Vernon High schools through the remainder of the 1978-79 school year.In 1985, due to declining enrollment, Fort Hunt and Groveton High School were combined to form West Potomac High School, located on Groveton's campus. The Fort Hunt campus was converted into Carl Sandburg Middle School, which replaced the older Stephen Foster and Bryant Intermediate Schools.School institutionsThe yearbook was called The Fortress. The school paper was called The Frontline. The athletic teams were called the Federals.
