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.
Virginia Beach City Public School Board Policy 6-65 and Regulation 6-65.3 state that secondary school library collections may contain materials that include sexually explicit content. These documents also require that such materials that are incoming as of the start of the 2024-2025 school year must be identified and placed on a public-facing list. The titles listed below include a sentence, a short passage, or a page that meets the definition for sexually explicit content. Parents and legal guardians of minor students who wish to restrict their students from accessing these materials may do so by completing and submitting a Request for Limited Access to Library Materials of General Interest (Individual Student) form.
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| A Study in Drowning | Reid, Ava |
| Adventures of Mary Jane | Jahren, Hope |
| After Life | Forman, Gayle |
| All This Twisted Glory | Mafi, Tahereh |
| Art Book, The (Big Ideas Simply Explained) | Published by DK |
| Art of Being Normal, The | Williamson, Lisa |
| Art: A Visual History | Cumming, Robert |
| Beloved | Morrison, Toni |
| Better in Black | Clare, Cassandra |
| Bitten | Gray, Jordan Stephanie |
| Blackwoods, The | Colbert, Brandy |
| Blood Debts | Anderson, V.P. |
| Bloom | Panetta, Kevin |
| Boyfriend List, The | Lockhart, E. |
| Bright Red Fruit | Elhillo, Safia |
| Canto Contigo | Garza Villa, Johnny |
| Castle of the Cursed | Garber, Romina |
| City of Stardust, The | Summers, Georgia |
| Classical Music Book, The (Big Ideas Simply Explained) | Published by DK |
| Color Purple, The | Walker, Alice |
| Concrete Rose | Thomas, Angie |
| Crowntide | Aster, Alex |
| Cultural Treasures of the World | DK Publishing |
| Damsel | Arnold, Elana K. |
| Darkhearts | Sutter, James |
| Defy Me | Mafi, Tahereh |
| Dragon and the Sun Lotus, The | Zhao, Amelie Wen |
| Evil Queen, The | Showalter, Gena |
| Eyes Open | Miller-Lachman, Lyn |
| Fire from the Sky | Astot, Moa Backe |
| First to Die at the End, The | Silvera, Adam |
| Flamer | Curato, Mike |
| Fountainhead, The | Rand, Ayn |
| Fragile Enchantment, A | Saft, Allison |
| Gifts That Bind Us, The | O'Donoghue, Caroline |
| Glass Queen, The | Showalter, Gena |
| Golden Boy's Guide to Bipolar, The | Reyes, Sonora |
| Halo Contact Harvest | Staten, Joseph |
| Heartless Hunter | Ciccarelli, Kristen |
| Heartstopper, Volume 5 | Oseman, Alice |
| Heir | Tahir, Sabaa |
| Hellsing 2 | Hirano, Kohta |
| Hellsing 3 | Hirano, Kohta |
| Honeysuckle and Bone | Tobias, Trisha |
| I am the Swarm | Chewins, Hayley |
| I Have the Right To: a High School Survivor's Story of Sexual Assault, Justice and Hope | Prout, Chessy |
| Icon and Inferno | Lu, Marie |
| If Only I Had Told Her | Nowlin, Laura |
| If Tomorrow Doesn't Come | St. Jude, Jen |
| Ignite Me | Mafi, Tahereh |
| Immortal Dark | Girma, Tigest |
| Into the Light | Oshiro, Mark |
| It | King, Stephen |
| It Doesn’t Have to be Awkward | Pinsky, Dr. Drew and Paulina |
| Last Vampire, The | Garber, Romina |
| Lessons in Chemistry | Garmus, Bonnie |
| Lightlark | Aster, Alex |
| Literature Book, The | DK Publishing |
| Love Radio | LaDelle, Ebony |
| Made in China | Qu, Anna |
| Medicine Book, The | DK Publishing |
| Medusa: New and Ancient Greek Tales | Albert, Liv |
| Minus-One Club, The | Magoon, Kekla |
| Mirrored Heavens | Roanhorse, Rebecca |
| My Throat an Open Grave | Bovalino, Tori |
| Nightbane | Aster, Alex |
| NIV Action Study Bible, The | Catherine Devries (editor) |
| Not Like Other Girls | Adamo, Meredith |
| Of Earthly Delights | Moldavsky, Goldy |
| Once a Villain | Len, Vanessa |
| Ones Who Come Back Hungry, The | Berube, Amelinda |
| Playin’ Hard | Grandison, Whitney |
| Pushing Hope- An Illustrated Memoir of Survival | Santana, Raymond |
| Queen's Spade, The | Raughley, Sarah |
| Ramona Blue | Murphy, Julie |
| Rana Joon and the One & Only Now | Etaat, Shideh |
| Rebel Girls Of Rome, The | Taylor, Jordan |
| Red Car to Hollywood, The | Liu, Jennie |
| Regulators, The | King, Stephen |
| Restore Me | Mafi, Tahereh |
| Road Home | Ogle, Rex |
| Rose Bargain, The | Smith, Sasha Peyton |
| Scorpion and the Night Blossom, The | Zhao, Amelie |
| Secret Book of Flora Lee, The | Henry, Patti Callahan |
| See No Color | Gibney, Shannon |
| Shakespeare Book, The | DK Publishing, by Wells, Stanley |
| Sharp Edge of Silence, The | Rosenblum, Cameron Kelly |
| Shining, The | King, Stephen |
| Shiny Happy People | Chapman, Clay M. |
| Shut Up, This Is Serious | Ixta, Carolina |
| Sisters in the Wind | Boulley, Angeline |
| Skipsock | O’Donoghue, Caroline |
| Skyshade | Aster, Alex |
| Slaughterhouse Five | Vonnegut, Kurt |
| Soul Eater, Vol. 1 | Ohkubo, Atsushi |
| Spinning | Walden, Tillie |
| Storybooth; The True and Amazing and Heartbreaking and Inspiring Stories of Real People | Sinel, Marcey Kaye and Joshua |
| Suffragist's Guide to the Antarctic | Lai, Yi Shun |
| Thirsty | Hammonds, Jas |
| Thirteenth Child, The | Craig, Erin |
| Tidal | Hocking, Amanda |
| Tigers Not Daughters | Mabry, Samantha |
| Timelines of Art | Chilvers, Ian |
| Tokyo Ghoul re: 12 | Ishida, Sui |
| Twenty-Four Seconds From Now | Reynolds, Jason |
| Under the Same Stars | Bray, Libba |
| We are the ants | Hutchinson, Shaun David |
| We Must Not Think of Ourselves | Grodstein, Lauren |
| What the River Knows | Ibanez, Isabel |
| When the World Tips Over | Nelson, Jandy |
| Where the Library Hides | Ibanez, Isabel |
| Whiteout | Thomas, Angie; Woodfolk, Ashley; Yoon, Nicola |
| Wildblood | Blackwood, Lauren |
| Wish You Were Her | McNicoll, Elle |
| Wisteria | Grace, Adalyn |
| Witchstone, The | Neff, Henry |
| YOLO | Myracle, Lauren |
| You are the Detective: The Creeping Hand Murder | Johnson, Maureen and Cooper, Joy |
| You Too? 25 Voices Share Their #MeToo Stories | Gurtler, Janet (editor) |
| Zealot | Thornely, Jo |
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