Robert E. Lee High School

Robert E. Lee High School is a public high school in located in::Springfield, Virginia. It is a part of the Fairfax County Public Schools system.

The site for the school was purchased in 1955 in anticipation of the funds for the construction of the school becoming available. $1.4 million of the school's anticipated construction costs came from a $2.49 million Federal allocation.

The $1,591,400 contract for the constructing the school, designed by Dixon and Norman, was awarded to Washington, D.C. construction firm Banks and Lee on September 19, 1957.

While it was being built, the school board officially named the new high school Lee High School for the Lee District in which it was located in May, 1958.

Construction of the school fell behind schedule, forcing school officials to consider a plan where students would attend Annandale High School in split shifts with the students already attending there.

On August 9, 1958, the appointment of Robert E. Phipps to be the first principal of the new high school by was announced by Superintendent W. T. Woodson. Phipps oversaw the school from its opening until he resigned in November 1959 to take a position as an education specialist with the Navy Bureau of Personnel. Phipps was replaced by assistant superintendent William C. Parrish.

Parrish left Lee in 1970 to become the principal of J. E. B. Stuart High School and was replaced by William E. Jackson, Jr..

Jackson was transferred by Superintendent L. Linton Deck in 1981 to Chantilly High School, and Frank Elliott was promoted to principal of the school. Elliot retired from the FCPS in 1988 and was succeeded by Dr. Larry Byers.

It was early in Byers' tenure that a 16-year-old student unintentionally shot himself during class while playing with a .25 caliber handgun during class on October 28, 1988.

Donald E. Thurston took over as principal in 1998, and retired in 2008.

The current principal of the school, Abe E. Jeffers, began at the school in 2009.