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The Fairfax County Public Schools system is a school district in the U.S. state of Virginia. It is a branch of the Fairfax County government which administers public schools in Fairfax County and the City of Fairfax. FCPS' headquarters is located in the Gatehouse Administration Center in Merrifield, an unincorporated section of the county near the city of Falls Church; the headquarters has a Falls Church address but is not within the city limits.
With over 180,000 students enrolled, FCPS is the largest public school system in the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area and Northern Virginia. The superintendent of schools is Karen Garza. The school division is the 13th largest school system in the nation and maintains the largest school bus fleet of any school system in the United States.
The most notable commitment the county makes to its school system is the allocation of 52.2% of its 2013 fiscal budget, over $1.8 billion, to the school system. Including state and federal government contributions, along with citizen and corporate contributions, this brings the 2013 fiscal budget for the school system to $2.5 billion.
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