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Virginia Beach City Public Schools currently serves approximately 70,000 students, and includes 87 schools. [ 3 ] The division has a fleet of nearly eight hundred school buses , which is serviced by two bus garages and is the second largest employer in the city, following Naval Air Station Oceana .
In 1998, the first year of SOL testing, only 2 percent of the Virginia Commonwealth's public schools met the standard for full accreditation. The percentage of schools meeting the state's accreditation standards increased to 6.5 percent in 1999, 22 percent in 2000, 40 percent in 2001, 64 percent in 2002, 78 percent in 2003, and 84 percent in 2004.
Princess Anne maintained its place as the highest ranked high school in Virginia Beach as well as the Hampton Roads region in the Newsweek listing of "America's Best High Schools", continuing to place in the list annually (#451 in 2012, #263 in 2011, #123 in 2010, #167 in 2008 and #213 in 2007). [7]
Below is the grading system found to be most commonly used in United States public high schools, according to the 2009 High School Transcript Study. [2] This is the most used grading system; however, there are some schools that use an edited version of the college system, which means 89.5 or above becomes an A average, 79.5 becomes a B, and so on.
Floyd Kellam High School is fully accredited under Virginia's Standards of Learning program. [1] The school is the third-oldest in Virginia Beach, next to Princess Anne High School and Frank W. Cox High School. [citation needed] Kellam has also been a blue ribbon school in the Fine Arts Department for the years 2006 and 2007.
Salem High School is a secondary school located in Virginia Beach, Virginia. [1] The school has a Visual and Performing Arts Academy; one of eight magnet programs in Virginia Beach. Students throughout the city interested in these arts can apply. The class of 2008 is the first graduating class to include students from the academy.
Green Run Collegiate High School, established 2013, is a charter school operating in Virginia Beach City Public Schools district [2] located at 1700 Dahlia Drive (Green Run High School campus) of the Green Run area of suburban Virginia Beach, Virginia. [3] It offers the International Baccalaureate.
Bayside High School is a public high school located in Virginia Beach, Virginia. It is in Virginia Beach City Public Schools, and serves 1,945 students as of 2021–22. [3] [4] [5] The school is one of several magnet programs in Virginia Beach, known for its Health Sciences Academy. [3] Bayside is in the top three in Standards of Learning ...