Virginia Beach City Public Schools (VBCPS) has continued to maintain record levels with respect to the on-time graduation (OTG) rate, which stands at 96.9% for the 2026 cohort year, and dropout rate of 2%. VBCPS also outperformed Virginia’s rates of 93.5% for OTG and 4.7% for dropouts.
Virginia Beach City Public Schools (VBCPS) has continued to maintain record levels with respect to the on-time graduation (OTG) rate, which stands at 96.9% for the 2026 cohort year, and dropout rate of 2%. VBCPS also outperformed Virginia’s rates of 93.5% for OTG and 4.7% for dropouts.
All 81 Virginia Beach City Public Schools (VBCPS) earned Full Accreditation for 2026-2027, and 77 of 81 schools raised their overall framework scores on Virginia’s School Performance and Support Framework. The results are based on 2025-2026 data.
Virginia Beach City Public Schools (VBCPS) is calling on the community to help address student meal debt, which currently stands at more than $350,000 across the division.
Virginia Beach City Public Schools (VBCPS) has entered into a resolution agreement with the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) that strengthens how the division receives, responds to, documents, and resolves reports of sexual harassment and misconduct.
Dr. Alveta Green, Virginia Beach School Board Member for District 4, has been selected for two significant leadership opportunities that will strengthen her work on behalf of Virginia Beach City Public Schools (VBCPS).
Virginia Beach City Public Schools (VBCPS) students continued to demonstrate strong academic performance on the 2025-2026 Virginia Standards of Learning (SOL) assessments, outperforming the state on every reading, writing, science and history assessment, and on all mathematics assessments except Grade 7 Math.
Kathleen Brown, chair of the School Board of the City of Virginia Beach, has been selected to join the second cohort of the Virginia Hunt State Policy Fellows, a bipartisan program of The Hunt Institute that brings together locally elected officials from across the state to engage in productive dialogue on pressing issues in education policy..
Virginia Beach City Public Schools (VBCPS) will host the Back-to-School Care Fair at the Virginia Beach Convention Center on Aug. 15 to help families take advantage of valuable resources in the division and community.
Virginia Beach City Public Schools (VBCPS) has once again received national recognition for its commitment to providing students with access and excellence in the arts. For the 17th time, VBCPS has been named a Best Community for Music Education by The National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) Foundation.
The Virginia Beach School Board received information about proposed federal grant applications at its May 12 meeting. For the 2026-27 school year, Virginia Beach City Public Schools (VBCPS) would receive approximately $18.9 million in formula grant funds through programs authorized under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) as amended by the Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015 (ESSA).
The Academy and Advanced Academic Programs represent an exciting expansion of curricular options for all students across the city. Recognizing that no educational program should adopt a “one size fits all” philosophy, the division developed these programs to provide additional academic choices for our students.
For information about gifted education services at the elementary, middle and high school levels, including admission to Old Donation School as well as the Gifted Dance Education Program and Gifted Visual Arts Program, visit Gifted Education.
For information about admission to the Achievable Dream Academy, Environmental Studies Program, Green Run Collegiate, the Advanced Technology Center or the Technical and Career Education Center, please contact the school/center or visit their websites.
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