Fairfax County Public Schools to Install XeedQ 4-Qubit Quantum Computer at Skyview High School

Public school district Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) in Northern Virginia has announced a regional partnership with regional economic development initiative Connected DMV and the Fairfax County Economic Development Authority (FCEDA) to deploy an operational, on-premises quantum computer at Skyview High School. Scheduled for delivery and installation in December 2026, the deployment marks the world’s first reported installation of physical quantum computing hardware in a K-12 public high school environment, with student learning pathways launching in Spring 2027.

The school district selected German deep-tech hardware startup XeedQ GmbH to supply its turn-key XQ1e processor—a 4-qubit quantum computer engineered for room-temperature, solid-state execution. Powered by nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center spin qubits in diamond, the desktop-sized unit operates inside a standard room-temperature environment without cryogenic refrigeration, drawing 500 Watts from a conventional wall outlet. The XQ1e system delivers single-qubit gate fidelities of up to 99.9% and two-qubit gate fidelities of up to 97%, providing students and educators with both high-level circuit programming and low-level pulse control via Python and Jupyter notebook interfaces.