Langley High School (Fairfax County, Virginia)

Since 2013, Langley High School has been host to the American Cancer Society's Relay For Life of Langley-McLean,[15] an overnight fundraising event that has raised over $170,000 for the ACS since its 2013 Inaugural Event held on Saturday, April 27, 2013. The event is one of only two student-led Relay For Life fundraisers held in Virginia and received the American Cancer Society's "Youth Event of the Year" Award in the South Atlantic Region for their 2013 event. In 2014 & 2015, Relay For Life of Langley-McLean partnered with McLean High School, in hopes of expanding and increasing the event's reach in the local community.

The 2014 Relay For Life of Langley-McLean was held on Saturday, April 26 at 6:00 PM to Sunday, April 27 at 6:00 AM and succeeded in raising $110,366.78 for the American Cancer Society.[16] The 2015 event was held on May 16, 2015, and raised over $112,000.

The team from Langley High School's Model United Nations (MUN) was nationally ranked as a Top-15 high school MUN team by the Model UN consulting organization Best Delegate in the 2013–2014 school year.

Since then, Langley High School has won Best Large at national conferences hosted across the East Coast. In 2017 Langley's MUN team won Best Large Delegation at the circuit's conference, ILMUNC XXXIII.

In 2014, the club hosted its own inaugural high school Model UN conference, the Virginia Invitational Model United Nations Conference I (VIMUNC), attracting over 700 delegates.[17][18]

The school has an active South Asian Student Association (SASA), which holds an annual "International Night".[19] In 2014, Langley SASA hosted its first District-Wide charity event "Bollywood Bash".[20][21] CHORD, the organization the association is raising money for, promotes literacy and strengthens local government in rural India.[22]

Langley's award-winning student newsmagazine, The Saxon Scope, is released once a month. Student journalists write, edit and revise all articles. The newspaper reporting, typesetting, layout, photography and computer graphics designs are also done by the journalism classes at Langley, headed by the Editor-in-Chief.[23] Additionally, The Saxon Scope publishes a catalogue of student produced literature and artwork in an annual magazine titled “Kaleidoscope.”

Langley's music department consists of award-winning band, choral, and orchestral programs.

The band program consists of six bands: Percussion Ensemble, Symphonic Band, Wind Ensemble, Wind Symphony, Marching Band, and Jazz Band. Langley also has a marching band that performs at home football games, as well as state marching band competitions, which is accompanied by the award-winning Color Guard team. The Langley Band performed in Spain in 2014, Chicago in 2015, and Los Angeles in 2016. The Wind Symphony performed in Indianapolis in 2017 in the prestigious Music For All National Festival. In 2018, they traveled to Italy, performing in cathedrals in Rome and Florence.

The choral program consists of five choirs: Treble, Women's Select, Concert, Chamber, and Madrigals. Langley Choirs have competed in competitions in Prague, Salzburg, and domestically in Orlando and San Diego.

The orchestral program consists of five orchestras: Freshman, Sophomore, Symphonic, Sinfonietta, and Philharmonic.

Langley High School actively participates in science fair events. Each year, first and second-place winners from the school-hosted science fair are selected to attend the Fairfax County Science and Engineering Fair. The Fairfax County Science and Engineering Fair is an Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) affiliated fair, sending around 10 projects each year to the international fair.[24] Notable winners from the past have included:

• (2009) Jun Sup Lee – 4th Place Grand Prize in Mathematics at the competition in Reno, Nevada.[25]
• (2010) Jong Hyuck Won – Grand Prize Winner and Best of Category in Medicine and Health Sciences at the competition in San Jose, California.[26]
• (2011) Kelly Martins – 3rd Place Grand Prize in Environmental Management at the competition in Los Angeles.[27]
• (2012) Jason Cui – 4th Place Grand Prize in Medicine and Health Sciences at the competition in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.[28]

Langley's fashion department sponsors an annual fashion show that is held in Langley's auditorium.

Langley's Science Olympiad team consistently receives accolades at the state and national level. In 2015, they beat out their rival the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology at the Virginia state tournament to secure a spot at the national tournament.

Langley has won 41 AAA state championships, which are:

• Girls Volleyball 2013, 2017
• Boys Lacrosse 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
• Girls Tennis 1979, 1980, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1991, 1992, 2012
• Girls Swim and Dive 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2011, 2015
• Boys Golf 1983, 1984, 2001, 2011, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
• Girls Gymnastics 2004
• Boys Tennis 1986, 1987, 1988, 1991, 1992, 1994
• Softball 1992
• Girls Cross-Country 1983, 1984
• Boys Cross-Country 1979
• Scholastic Bowl 2014, 2015, 2016
• Boys Soccer 2015, 2017
• Boys Swim and Dive 2018
• Girls Lacrosse, 2019
• Field Hockey, 2019

Langley has received two sportsmanship awards, one in AAA girls soccer in 2001 and one in AAA girls volleyball in 2007. In addition, Langley won first place in the Wachovia Cup standings in 1991–1992 for athletics.

In 1977 the Congressional Baseball Game was forced to play the annual game on Langley High School's baseball field due to two previous rain outs on Memorial Stadium.[29]

With the announcement of the 2019–2020 season, Karasek also announced the creation of Saxon Studio, a theatre company that stages completely student-produced performances in the winter. Saxon Studio productions are produced through Langley's combined Theatre Arts 3 and Theatre Arts 4 class. On February 14, 2020, Saxon Studio put on its first production, Almost, Maine, directed by Mary Kurbanov. On February 21 of the same year, Saxon Studio performed Love/Sick, directed by Hannah Cameron-Cadenazzi.

Saxon Stage is a regular Class 6 competitor in the Virginia High School League (VHSL) One-Act Play Competition.

For the first time in Saxon Stage's history, Langley High School became the VHSL Liberty Conference 6A one-act competition champions in January 2014 when they won first place with its production of Fearful Symmetry. The production later went on to win third place in the Region 6A North Competition, making it the highest-ranked student-directed production of the competition.

In March 2019, Langley High School won first placed at the VHSL Class 6 State Competition with its production of Peter Tolan's comedic Pillowtalk. The two actors received Outstanding Actor commendations at the state level.

In February 2020, A Jury of Her Peers placed third in the Region 6 North Competition after winning first place at the sectional competition one month prior.

*Indicates Cappies Program entry

⁺Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Langley High School participates in the National Capital Area division of the Cappies Critics and Awards Program for High School Theatre, "a year-long program for theatre and journalism students through which students attend and discuss each other's shows, write reviews for publication, and at the end of the season decide who of their colleague student performers and technicians should be honored for awards."[30]

Below is a list of all Cappie Awards and nominations received by Saxon Stage since 2012.