In 2018, T.C. Williams has improved its Advanced Placement test scores, having 72% of AP students scoring a three or higher on their exams. This is a significant increase within the last thirteen years, when in 2005 only 39% of students passed their AP exams. With more than one third of students from the King Street campus taking AP courses, these scores are at a record high.

As college admissions season approaches, high school seniors are compiling the transcripts and resumes they have been building since ninth grade. With admissions become increasingly competitive, these students are unknowingly being affected by an academic phenomenon 50 years in the making.

Unlike in the rest of the nation, “Friday Night Lights” have never been a tradition in Alexandria. T.C.’s historic football team, made famous by the Disney movie Remember the Titans, is unable to compete on Friday nights because of the lack of lighting at its home stadium.