Athletic Facility Scheduling
Taking the confusion out of booking FCPS athletic facilities!
FCPS' facilities are available to book for community and sports activity. Find out which office handles scheduling for a specific field, gym, track, or event.
FCPS Community Use Section Schedules
- All athletic space (i.e., wrestling rooms, tennis courts) in any FCPS facility except athletic fields, gyms, and tracks for regular sports practices and games/meets for non-profit athletic organizations.
- Athletic fields, gyms, and tracks for non-profit athletic organizations that are holding fee-based activities (such as camps, clinics, tryouts, meets, and running events that are not included in the regular league fees).
- Athletic fields, gyms, and tracks for all activities by for-profit organizations (including athletic events or leagues).
- Athletic fields, gyms, and tracks for non-profit organizations that are holding non-athletic events (such as community fairs or egg hunts).
All scheduling is handled through CommunityUse, our online reservation system. If you are not already an organization event coordinator (OEC) for our online system, CommunityUse, please follow the process on how to become an OEC on the Community Use of School Facilities webpage. Once you are approved, you can submit your request through CommunityUse.
Fairfax County Neighborhood and Community Services
(NCS) Schedules
- Athletic fields, gyms, and tracks for non-profit athletic organizations that are holding non-fee-based activities (such as practices, games, free camps, clinics, tryouts, meets, and running events that are included in regular league fees).
NCS charges $5.50 per Fairfax County resident for a gym, diamond fields, and track use, and $8.00 for rectangular field use. A higher fee is charged for non-Fairfax County residents. This is a one-time charge for the entire season. NCS verifies residency by reviewing rosters submitted by the group before receiving a final permit. The rosters must include participants' names and addresses. For one-time use, events rosters are not required and the fee is a $50 one-time use fee charge. Fee information on league tournaments is available on the NCS website.
Contact Information
Website: Fairfax County Neighborhood and Community Services website
Telephone: 703-324-5533
Email: [email protected]
Sports and Athletic Activities Use of FCPS Indoor Athletic Facilities Beyond the School Day
Guidelines
The majority of the sports listed below are normally played outdoors but are permitted indoors during inclement weather or for off-season conditioning training. Specific approval for use must be obtained from the FCPS Community Use Section for any sports and athletic activities that are not listed below.
Please Note: Outdoor sports groups may use FCPS gyms to conduct conditioning programs only. The following activities are prohibited for all sports:
- Kicking, throwing, striking, or otherwise using sports balls, pucks, equipment, etc., in such a manner as to damage light fixtures, scoreboards, backboards, ceiling tiles, floors, windows, walls, and other property
- Scrimmages, games, or league play; and
- Kicking, throwing, or propelling on goals (any structure, area set off by traffic cones, or other temporary efforts to define a goal opening)
- Pitching and catching - No use of regulation balls is allowed
- Infield Practice - Ball use is limited to Incrediballs® and other soft balls designed for indoor use
- Batting Cage – Batting practice is only allowed inside a completely enclosed batting cage
- Cricket Batting – Modified bats (ex. plastic) and balls (ex. tennis balls) only
- Use is limited to regulation indoor field hockey balls
- Field hockey sticks may be used only if covered with protective padding (e.g. socks, stick covers)
- Elementary Schools – All use is prohibited
- Kicking the football is permitted only into a kicking net
- Elementary Schools – All use is prohibited
- All use is prohibited
- All use is prohibited
- Restricted to use of golf-ball-size Wiffle®-type limited flight balls
- Balls may only be hit from artificial turf or carpet mats
- Elementary Schools – All use is prohibited
- All use is prohibited
- Restricted to use of tennis balls and/or indoor practice balls
- Elementary Schools – All use is prohibited
- No running in hallways or stairways
- No indoor bleacher running
- Please note: outdoor bleacher running is permitted in aisle ways only
- Restricted to use of indoor shot put only
- Throws must be made from one protected surface to another (e.g. mats, sheets of plywood)
- Middle and Elementary Schools – All use is prohibited
- Restricted to use of an indoor or soft (felt-covered, foam, etc) soccer ball
- All use is prohibited
Prohibited Activities on Turf Fields
Community Users are prohibited from having the following on any athletic fields.
- Animals (except in the case of service animals). The user shall clean up any school grounds used by service animals participating in scheduled events
- Alcoholic beverages
- Chairs or benches (these items may puncture the turf or cause damage)
- Egg or other likewise hunts
- Fireworks and sparkles
- Flammable decorations
- Food and beverage products, except water
- Metal cleats or high-heeled shoes
- No stakes are allowed on the field to secure tents and/or canopies. Please use backpack coolers or other heavy objects to secure your tents and canopies
- No cooking on the field
- No seeds (sunflower or pumpkin) or gum in the stadium or on the field
- No candles will be used on the field. Only battery-operated candles allowed
- Portable heaters
- Playing golf
- Suntan lotions, oils or creams of any kind. Please apply sunblock prior to entering the turf area
- Tobacco products, or smoking devices (including nicotine vapor products, alternative nicotine products, electronic cigarettes, and Hookah pens)
- Throwing activities such as hammer, shot, discus, or javelin
