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Virginia Beach high schools to compete in interscholastic lacrosse for first time this spring

For the very first time, Virginia Beach high schools will be playing lacrosse interscholastically starting this spring. With the Beach District season recently underway, each high school is fielding a varsity boys and a varsity girls team. On Tuesday, March 28, Kempsville and Ocean Lakes will play in a girls/boys doubleheader at the Virginia Beach Sportsplex (2044 Landstown Centre Way, Virginia Beach, VA 23456.) The Beach District schedule for all VBCPS schools begins on April 4.

Virginia Beach high schools to compete in interscholastic lacrosse for first time this spring

For the very first time, Virginia Beach high schools will be playing lacrosse interscholastically starting this spring. With the Beach District season recently underway, each high school is fielding a varsity boys and a varsity girls team. On Tuesday, March 28, Kempsville and Ocean Lakes will play in a girls/boys doubleheader at the Virginia Beach Sportsplex (2044 Landstown Centre Way, Virginia Beach, VA 23456.) The Beach District schedule for all VBCPS schools begins on April 4.

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VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (March 13, 2023) – The City of Virginia Beach, in partnership with the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia, will hold a series of community listening sessions between March 25 and April 3. Residents will have an opportunity to provide their input on the City’s election system and how they elect their representatives. Feedback will be captured by the event moderators and provided to City Council in a final report.

Two Virginia Beach schools recognized as national models for college and career readiness

Great Neck and Salem Middle schools in Virginia Beach have once again received distinction as AVID National Demonstration Schools. This elite designation has been awarded to only 200 of 8,000 AVID schools in the United States and around the world. AVID National Demonstration Schools exhibit a college and career readiness culture through rigor and high expectations for all students throughout the school.

Students with "EllRay Jakes is Magic!" book

Ask any Virginia Beach fifth grader what they’re reading in March, and they’ll all answer the same thing — “EllRay Jakes is Magic!” That’s because Virginia Beach City Public Schools is participating in an exciting literacy program called All District Reads, which puts a free book into the hands of every fifth grader and encourages them to read aloud and discuss the story with their families, classmates and community.

Cost Per Pupil

*Includes regular day school, school food services, summer school, adult education, pre-kindergarten, athletics, textbooks, and other educational functions; however, excludes certain expenditures (e.g., non-regular day school programs, non-local education agency programs, facilities, debt service, capital outlay additions). Non-local education agency programs include expenditures made by the division for state-operated education programs (in hospitals, clinics, and detention homes) that are located within the school division and reimbursed with state funds.

VIRGINIA BEACH CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
AVERAGE PER PUPIL EXPENDITURES FOR OPERATIONS*
SOURCES OF FINANCIAL SUPPORT FY 2021** (Actual) FY 2022
(Estimated)
VBCPS
FY 2023***
(Approved)
VBCPS
STATE
AVERAGE
VBCPS
STATE $ 4,858 $ 4,787 $ 4,874 $ 5,559
SALES TAX 1,327 1,341 1,545 1,450
FEDERAL 1,352 1,343 2,274 2,966
LOCAL**** 6,669 5,783 6,820 7,054
TOTAL $ 14,206 $ 13,254 $ 15,513 $ 17,029

*Includes regular day school, school food services, summer school, adult education, pre-kindergarten, athletics, textbooks, and other educational functions; however, excludes certain expenditures (e.g., non-regular day school programs, non-local education agency programs, facilities, debt service, capital outlay additions). Non-local education agency programs include expenditures made by the division for state-operated education programs (in hospitals, clinics, and detention homes) that are located within the school division and reimbursed with state funds.

**Commonwealth of Virginia, Superintendent's Annual Report for Virginia.

***Based on the approved School Board Operating Budget and approved by City Council.

****Includes the City of Virginia Beach and other local sources (e.g., rental of facilities, summer school tuition, adult education fees, cafeteria service charges), along with the following adjustments and qualifications:

FY 2021 (Actual) and FY 2022 (Estimated) - Includes expenditures of carryover encumbrances and appropriated fund balances and expenditures of CARES Act, ESSER I, ESSER & GEER, and CRF, excludes certain operating transfers, net of City reversion (i.e., actual/estimated unexpended balance returned to the City), and other necessary adjustments that can cause, along with other factors, fluctuations in the local average per pupil expenditures from fiscal year to fiscal year.

FY 2023 (Approved) - Based on the approved School Board Operating Budget and approved by City Council; however, it does not include certain adjustments necessary to compute the FY 2021 (Actual) and FY 2022 (Estimated) local average per pupil expenditures and, therefore, it will affect the comparability of the FY 2023 (Approved) local average per pupil expenditures amount to the FY 2021 (Actual) and FY 2022 (Estimated) amounts.