Bryant Alternative High School

Here follows a school history as published by Fairfax County Public Schools on their website:

What's in a Name?
Learn about the origin of our school's name in this video produced for Fairfax County Public Schools’ cable television channel Red Apple 21:

Bryant High School in Alexandria is named for the famous American poet William Cullen Bryant. William Bryant was born in 1794 in Cummington, Massachusetts to Peter Bryant and Sarah Snell in 1799. Peter bright purchased a new home in Cummington that had been owned by his father-in-law Evan Easer Snell.
William Bryant spent his boyhood and his later adult life in this home during which time he renovated the property and heavily altered its original appearance. As a young man, Bryant studied law but his passion always lay with writing his most famous poem. Thanatopsis is believed to have been written when he was just 17 or 18 years old in 1818. Bryant published "To a Waterfowl," a critically acclaimed poem inspired by his observations of a bird in flight seven years later in 1825. Bryant quit his legal career to take a job as a newspaper editor, a career which would span the remainder of his lifetime. Bryant eventually worked his way up to become editor-in-chief and co-owner of the New York Evening Post. Politically active, Bryant was an abolitionist, an advocate for immigrants and religious minorities and helped found the Republican Party.
William Cullen Bryant passed away in June 1878 in New York City. The Fairfax County Public School building currently named for him originally opened in 1956, but at that time it was known as Groveton High School. In 1960, when Fairfax County opened its first intermediate schools, one of eight such schools to open that fall was named for William Cullen Bryant. This school was originally located on Quander Road and what is now West Potomac High School. In 1976, due to enrollment and other demographic changes, Bryant Intermediate and Groveton High switched campuses. Bryant Intermediate School closed in 1985 and the building was converted into an alternative Education Center the following year.