Which Alexandria City Public Schools serve a Cameron Station address, where the boundary lines actually run, and how to confirm it yourself before you write an offer.
A listing sheet will give you three school names and no way to check them. This page gives you the same three names, tells you where the lines around Cameron Station sit and which streets they cross, and points you at the district tool that is the only current authority. What it will not do is tell you whether any of those schools is good. That is a deliberate line, explained at the bottom.
Attendance boundaries change. The district's own locator is the authority — not a listing, and not this page.
ACPS Attendance Zone Locator (official — enter a street address) →Every residential address inside Cameron Station is zoned to three Alexandria City Public Schools campuses for the 2026-27 school year: Samuel W. Tucker Elementary School (K-5) at 435 Ferdinand Day Drive, which borders the community; Francis C. Hammond Middle School (6-8) at 4646 Seminary Road; and Alexandria City High School (9-12), the division's single comprehensive high school. We ran a spread of Cameron Station addresses through the ACPS Attendance Zone Locator in August 2026 — the 100, 200 and 300 blocks of Cameron Station Boulevard, Donovan Drive, Brenman Park Drive and the South Pickett Street frontage — and all three assignments came back identical at every one. The same addresses returned the same three schools under the 2025-26 boundaries, so the citywide redistricting that took effect this year did not move Cameron Station. Alexandria City High School runs on more than one campus — King Street at 3330 King Street and Minnie Howard at 3775 W. Braddock Road — but campus placement is handled by the school by grade and programme, not by your home address.
Every Cameron Station address we tested returned the same three schools, so the neighbourhood itself is not split. The useful part is knowing where the lines sit, because three of them run close. On the north, Duke Street is the divide: addresses inside Cameron Station are Tucker and Hammond, while the blocks north of Duke Street around Taney Avenue are zoned to Patrick Henry K-8 School at 4643 Taney Avenue — one school for both elementary and middle grades, so those addresses never feed into Hammond at all. On the west and north-west the line crosses South Pickett Street rather than following it: the 300 block of South Pickett Street and the 5200 block of Duke Street return Patrick Henry, while the 500 block of South Pickett Street and Ferdinand Day Drive return Tucker. On the east, the elementary line crosses Ben Brenman Park rather than any street, and the Duke Street blocks beyond the park — the 4500 and 4600 blocks, toward Holmes Run — are zoned to Douglas MacArthur Elementary for K-5 while staying with Hammond for middle school. The lesson generalises: the neighbourhood boundary and the school boundary are different lines, and one street can carry different assignments on its two sides.
ACPS does not run feeder pyramids. Each address sits in an elementary zone and a middle zone drawn separately, and the locator resolves them independently — which is why an address just north of Duke Street shares no part of the Cameron Station sequence, not just a different elementary school. Two ACPS schools are K-8, Patrick Henry and Jefferson-Houston PreK-8 IB, so some city addresses have no separate middle school assignment at all. There are two stand-alone middle schools, Hammond and George Washington. High school is the simple part: Alexandria City High School serves the entire city, so no address in Alexandria changes the high school answer. Programmes can change the default, and they are applications rather than assignments. Families zoned to Samuel Tucker may apply for a programme transfer into the Spanish-English dual language programme at John Adams Elementary at kindergarten, alongside families zoned to Patrick Henry, Ferdinand T. Day, James K. Polk, John Adams and William Ramsay; ACPS states that placement depends on capacity at John Adams. Nothing there is automatic, and taking it means leaving the zoned school.
The Alexandria City School Board adopted new elementary and middle school boundaries on June 12, 2025 — Elementary School Triangle Map Plan 3 and Middle School Option E — and they took effect July 1, 2026, with the first day of classes under the new maps on August 25, 2026. ACPS put the number of currently enrolled students affected at roughly 1,400. Cameron Station was not among them, but the area immediately east of Ben Brenman Park was: the Duke Street blocks toward Holmes Run moved from Patrick Henry K-8 to Douglas MacArthur for elementary and to Hammond for middle. ACPS also redrew walk zones to match, designating K-8 students within one mile of their school and high school students within 1.5 miles as walkers, and publishes a walk-zone map for each school, Tucker included. Two things are still in motion as of August 2026. George Mason Elementary is being rebuilt, with students in swing space at 1703 N. Beauregard Street until the new building opens in autumn 2027; because of that, four study areas redistricted to George Mason stay at their current schools through 2026-27 and move in 2027-28. Longer term, ACPS has modelled converting Jefferson-Houston to a middle school in the FY2030-FY2032 window of the capital plan, and the Board has not set the next redistricting cycle. None of that touches Cameron Station's current assignment. All of it is a reason to check the date on any school information you are handed.
Check the address, never the neighbourhood. The ACPS Attendance Zone Locator takes a street address and returns the assigned elementary, middle and high school along with bus eligibility, and it lets you toggle between the 2025-26 and 2026-27 boundaries so you can see whether an address moved recently. Run the exact address on the listing, unit number included, and run it before you write an offer rather than after: a deferral granted to the current owner's children does not travel with the house, and neither does a sibling placement. The school field on a listing sheet is typed in by whoever entered the listing and is verified by neither the district nor the MLS; treat it as a starting point and nothing more. If the locator and the listing disagree, the locator wins, and the ACPS registration office will confirm in writing. Boundaries change, and the locator is the authority — this page is a snapshot of August 2026. One more thing, stated plainly rather than apologetically: we will name the schools that serve an address, and we will not rate, rank, score or compare them. That is a fair housing line, not a dodge. School ratings track neighbourhood demographics closely, and steering buyers by them is among the most documented violations in this business. Your read on a school is yours to form, and ACPS, the school itself and a visit will serve you better than an agent's adjective.
More on the area in the Cameron Station guide.
School assignment turns on the address, not the neighbourhood, and a listing's school field is unverified. Artur can confirm it against the district record before you write.
