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 Technical and Career Center Preschool program is for children ages 3-5 years old who live in Virginia Beach. The preschool operates under the supervision of two high school teachers at the Center.
Students in 11th and 12th grade who attend the Early Childhood Education class at the Technical and Career Center act as teacher assistants in the preschool. The high school students learn about early childhood education and work in the preschool to implement developmentally appropriate lessons and activities.
Creative Curriculum is used in our preschool. It is play-based and features centers such as dramatic play, science, art, sensory, block building and circle time. We serve a daily snack and go outside for large motor activities on two playgrounds. The Tech Center Preschool is open to the public. Up to twenty children are accepted for each of the two sessions (morning or afternoon).
Please contact ECE Instructors Lisa Embrey & Daphine Lovely by phone 757.648.5890 or by email Lisa.Embrey@vbschools.com, Daphine.Lovely@vbschools.com for questions or more information.
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