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.
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).
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.
Nicole Livas, Chief Communications and Community Engagement Officer
Dr. Admon Alexander, Director of Family and Community Engagement
Department of Communications and Community Engagement personnel work in tandem to fulfill the department’s mission while at the same time take on the responsibility for specific duties, projects, publications, crisis communications, and media relations, both internally in the school division and externally in the community at large. In addition, the department offers consulting and marketing services on an as-needed basis.
The department also has oversight of the Family and Community Engagement office, division partnerships and volunteers, the Virginia Beach Education Foundation, the school division's website vbschools.com, graphic designer, the Media Liaison Program, ParentSquare, Alert Now and the School Administration Building reception desk duties.
The Department of Communications and Community Engagement serves as an advocate to strengthen involvement with all our public by communicating and supporting the goals of the Virginia Beach school system.
Contact Us
Have a press request? Please email news@vbschools.com or contact one of the following staff members in the Department of Communications and Community Engagement.
Ryan Delucie, Public Relations Coordinator
Telephone: 757.263.1234
Madeline Curott, Public Relations Coordinator
Telephone: 757.263.1017
David Schleck, Public Relations Coordinator
Telephone: 757.263.1229
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