A goal of FCPS’ Portrait of a Graduate is to provide opportunities for emerging adults to learn skills to be successful after high school. Parents can help their student develop these skills by working with teachers and school staff. The Parent Advocacy Handbook explains how to help your student.
School social workers are mental health professionals who address the social, emotional, behavioral, and environmental factors impacting a student’s ability to perform at their best. Our social worker assignments are listed here.
Fairfax County Public Schools provides a continuum of advanced academic services at the middle school level. Services provided to middle school students include Young Scholars, Honors classes, Level IV services, and the International Baccalaureate® (IB) Middle Years Program (MYP).
Boundary adjustment approved by School Board to address capacity challenges across all McLean elementary schools, with a particular focus on the needs of Kent Gardens Elementary.
Meeting minutes, lists of teachers and their salaries, and school construction records of the Centreville District School Board can be found in this collection.
Did you know that three Fairfax County high schools have been named in honor of President Thomas Jefferson? Learn about the history of the second Thomas Jefferson High School.
Meeting minutes, lists of teachers and their salaries, and school construction records of the Providence District School Board can be found in this collection.
Meeting minutes, lists of teachers and their salaries, and school construction records of the Town of Herndon School Board can be found in this collection.
The Safe Routes to School (SRTS) program helps schools create plans, activities, and infrastructure improvements to increase the number of students who bike and walk to school.
High school is a time of academic and career choices for teens. They must decide whether to take regular, Honors, Academy, Advanced Placement (AP), or International Baccalaureate courses.
Our school psychologists are mental health specialists with knowledge of child development, the psychology of learning, behavior management and intervention, monitoring progress of students, and program evaluation. Our psychologist school assignments are listed here.
From 1870 to 1922, the school trustees of the magisterial district and town school boards gathered periodically to take action in regard to matters affecting the entire school division, such as state and local finances, public school legislation, compulsory attendance and vaccination, and the school calendar to name a few. The minute records of this “combined” Fairfax County School Board are found in this collection.
The Mount Vernon Pyramid is developing instructional practices that value student-centered, project-based, interdisciplinary learning that connects students to the real world.