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..
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).
Students and staff of Virginia Beach City Public Schools (VBCPS) benefit from the support of over 1,700 community partners each year. Partnerships between community groups, businesses and schools are integral to public education in Virginia Beach.
Please take a look at the Superintendent Estimate of Needs (SEON) presented to the School Board on February 24, 2026.
At its Jan. 13 meeting, the School Board of the City of Virginia Beach reelected Kathleen Brown as chair and Carolyn Weems as vice chair.
Mary Nazareno of Indian Lakes Elementary School is the 2027 Virginia Beach City Public Schools (VBCPS) Citywide Teacher of the Year.
The Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) has released school results under Virginia’s redesigned two-part model, which separates Accreditation from the School Performance and Support Framework (SPSF). These measures provide a more detailed view of school quality and student outcomes across the state.
The Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) released Standard of Learning (SOL) pass rate data on Aug. 27. The overall SOL pass rates for Virginia Beach City Public Schools (VBCPS) exceeded the state pass rates in all subject areas.
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Daniel Hopkins, Director of Business Services
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To provide a stable source of local funding for public schools, the City Council first adopted the City/School Revenue Sharing Policy in 1997 and revised the agreement in December 2015. Within the policy, the discretionary local match allocates local tax revenues to VBCPS using the Revenue Sharing Formula and a real estate tax dedication. There are 14 non-dedicated local tax revenue streams used to calculate the RSF: real estate taxes; personal property taxes; general sales taxes; utility taxes; Virginia telecommunications taxes; Business Permit and Occupational License (BPOL) taxes; cable franchise taxes; cigarette taxes; hotel room taxes; restaurant meals taxes; automobile license taxes; bank net capital taxes; city taxes on deeds; and city taxes on wills.
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