Public schools throughout Virginia have been ranked by this website based on state test scores, college readiness, graduation rates, SAT/ACT scores, teacher quality, student and parent reviews, and more.
The top ten systems are:
- Arlington County Public Schools
- Falls Church City Public Schools
- Loudoun County Public Schools
- Fairfax County Public Schools
- Albemarle County Public Schools
- Charlottesville City Public Schools
- Alexandria City Public Schools
- Salem City Public Schools
- Henrico County Public Schools
- West Point Public Schools
See the full rankings of Virginia schools here.
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Come on, David
How about celebrating the school systems for once instead of trying to undermine what the teachers, administrators, and staff do everyday. You could have responded that the results we are seeing are extraordinary given the economic situation and we are blessed to have such dedicated professionals making the most with what they are given. Instead, you continue to bash the system despite the evidence.
The system is a liar. The system says they are woefully under-(staffed, funded, supported, etc.). I actually don’t think there is anything wrong with LCPS’s outcomes and that they do very well. But LCPS talks out both sides of its mouth to manipulate the public to think they are getting short changed, which couldn’t be further from the truth.
you neglect the possibility (reality) that parents are paying for private tutors and teachers are working harder despite being appreciated less. The question you should stop asking is :how much more can we cut?” Ask instead, “what could we be achieving if we did things differently?” You are well known for never wanting to invest anything in the public good, not even your own time. Yet, you expect others to pick up the slack for you and to cover your fair share. In other words, you want to get more for investing less and you expect our educators to do more with getting less.
Here is a headline from today that demonstrates what is so wrong with our public education: “Loudoun Board of Supervisors allocates $1.25 million for turf field at Potomac Falls.” We can spend $1.25M on a field (and we spend a lot more on other fields in Loudoun) but then LCPS will cry they don’t have money for core academics. The public schools’ priorities are bass ackwards. Put the money to academics and let the other things suffer, if need be. But educrats have figured out the best way to bleed citizens is to put money into un-needed things and then short-change what is essential so they can hold up a poster with 30 kids in a class and say that is too many. And then they all trot out to a $20M athletic facility that is nice to have, but certainly not needed.
Yes, whatever happened to keeping the main thing the main thing?
what are you upset about? The cost of the fields? The idea that turf fields are needed? Or the notion that there is more to public schools that reading, writing, and arithmetic?
I can accept a discussion on the first two. Arguing that school must only focus on in-classroom instruction is nonsense
Waste not, want not.
The taxpaying public should only pay for academics. Beyond that, it is the kids’ parents responsibility. Athletics, while nice, are far too expensive. Having an open field to play games is fine, Spending tens of millions on an athletic facility, the enormous costs of football equipment (and insurance for it), cost of transportation to games, etc., are wastes of large sums amounts of money.
PS I forgot that Loudoun wants to spend $8M on PRESS BOXES!!!
This can’t possibly be correct. The Loudoun schools gripe annually about how poorly funded they are and are lacking across the board and behind Fairfax and don’t have Full Day Daycare and…. The alternate is to believe that the Loudoun schools are lying to Loudoun’ citizens. That couldn’t possibly be true. Could it?