Prince William County Public Schools

Prince William County Public Schools is a Virginian school division with its headquarters in the Kelly Leadership Center in unincorporated Prince William County, Virginia.[4][5] As of the 2010 census, the population of the county was 402,002.

Prince William County Public Schools
14715 Bristow Road
Manassas
, Virginia, 20112
District information
TypePublic
MottoProviding A World-Class Education
GradesPre-K–12[1]
SuperintendentLaTanya D. McDade
Deputy superintendent(s)Vacant
Chair of the boardBabur B. Lateef
Budget$1.5 Billion (57.23% of county budget FY19)[2][3]
Students and staff
Students92,237 (2017–18)[1]
Teachers5,696.94 (on an FTE basis)[1]
Staff10,740.34 (on an FTE basis)[1]
Student–teacher ratio16.19 [1]
Other information
Websitehttp://www.pwcs.edu/

Prince William County Public Schools is the second largest school division in Virginia enrolling approximately 92,000 students. Prince William County Public Schools is the fourth largest school system in the Washington Metropolitan Area after the Fairfax County, Virginia; Montgomery County, Maryland; and Prince George's County, Maryland school systems.

Administration

Superintendent

A recent superintendent of Prince William County Public Schools was Steven L. Walts. He became the superintendent in 2005. Walts was previously superintendent of the Greece Central School District. He was also an assistant superintendent in Baltimore County Public Schools.[6] Walts retired at the end of the 2020-21 school year.[7]

On March 24, 2021, Prince William County Public Schools announced that the next superintendent will be LaTanya McDade. McDade is the Chief Education Officer for Chicago Public Schools. She is the first woman and first African-American superintendent in the district's history.[8][9]

School Board

Prince William County Schools is governed by elected members to the school board. One member from each of the 7 Magisterial districts in Prince William County and a Chairmen At-Large are elected to serve on the board. The Vice is elected by the board. Two non voting Student Representative are selected each school year to serve and provide input from a students perspective on decisions made by the school board. A Student Senate is made up of one student from each high school who applied for the student representative position. They work together with the student representatives to advise the school board.

Current Board Members[10]
Babur B. Lateef, M.D. Chairman At-Large
Lisa A. Zargarpur Vice Chairwoman-Coles District
Loree Y. Williams Woodbridge District
Diane L. Raulston Neabsco District
Justin David Wilk Potomac District
Adele E. Jackson Brentsville District
Jennifer T. Wall Gainesville District
Lillie G. Jessie Occoquan District
Charlotte Flynn Student Representative (Woodbridge High School)
Daania Sharifi Student Representative (Gainesville High School) Mekelet Suraphel Alternate Student Representative (C.D. Hylton High School)
2020-2021 Student Senate[11]
Mekelet Suraphel Alternate Student Representative
Trent Fisher Independence Nontraditional School
Shane Goodson Unity Reed High School
Syrell Grier Gar-Field High School
Seemeen Hanan Osbourn Park High School
Samir Herrera Freedom High School
Aisha Khan Woodbridge High School
Marilyn Lontchi Potomac High School
Christian Daniels"
Benjamin Raidman Forest Park High School
Lauren Snowden Patriot High School
Naomi Solomon Charles J. Colgan Sr. High School
Muhammad Usufzai Battlefield High School

Schools

High schools

Battlefield High School

Brentsville District High School

Colgan High School

Forest Park High School

Freedom High School

Gainesville High School

Gar-Field High School

Hylton High School

  • Woodbridge, Virginia
  • Principal: Mr. David Cassady, Jr.
  • Mascot: Bulldogs
  • Named after real estate developer Cecil D. Hylton

Osbourn Park High School

Patriot High School

Potomac High School

Unity Reed High School

Woodbridge High School

Specialty programs

The Biotechnology Center is located at Osbourn Park High School. Osbourn Park also offers specialty programs through their automotive program, firefighting program, Navy JROTC, practical nursing program, project lead-the-way, and the pre-governors school program.[15]

The Cambridge Programme offers a curriculum and examination system with external assessments by the University of Cambridge International Examinations. Juniors and seniors taking advanced-level courses can qualify for an Advanced International Certificate of Education (AICE) diploma. Available at Potomac Senior High School and Brentsville District High School.

The Center for Environmental and Natural Sciences (CENS) is located at Freedom High School.

The Center for the Fine and Performing Arts is located at Charles J. Colgan, Sr. High School since the school's opening; Woodbridge Senior High School hosted it up to 2016.

The Center for Information Technology is located at Battlefield High School and Forest Park High School.

The Center for International Studies and Languages is located at Hylton High School.

The International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, a rigorous four-year academic program authorized by the International Baccalaureate (IB) of Geneva, Switzerland. Available at Unity Reed High School and Gar-Field Senior High School.

The Pathways to Global Citizenship program will be located at Gainesville High School

Middle schools

Louise A. Benton Middle School

  • Manassas, Virginia
  • Principal: Joseph Graczyk[16]
  • Mascot: Cougars
  • Named after teacher and public servant Louise A. Benton[17]

Stuart M. Beville Middle School

  • Woodbridge, Virginia
  • Principal: Tim Keenan[18]
  • Mascot: Bobcats
  • Named after former Superintendent of Prince William County Public School Stuart McGuire Beville[19]

Bull Run Middle School

Fred M. Lynn Middle School

Gainesville Middle School

Graham Park Middle School

George M. Hampton Middle School (Formerly Mills E. Godwin Middle School)

Lake Ridge Middle School

E.H. Marsteller Middle School

Parkside Middle School

Potomac Middle School

Potomac Shores Middle School

Ronald Wilson Reagan Middle School

Rippon Middle School

Herbert J. Saunders Middle School

  • Manassas, Virginia
  • Principal: Matthew Eline[34]
  • Mascot: Spartans
  • Named after former Superintendent of Prince William County Public Schools Herbert J. Saunders[35]

Unity Braxton Middle School

Woodbridge Middle School

Specialty programs

Graham Park, Marsteller, and Rippon Middle Schools currently offer Middle School Mathematics and Science Program, an intensive program in mathematics and science.

Beville, Hampton, Lynn, Parkside, and Unity Braxton Middle Schools offer the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme (IBMYP).

Lynn, Lake Ridge, and Parkside Middle Schools offer the Middle School World Languages Program in French and Spanish.

Gainesville Middle School offer an Arts and Sciences Program.

Traditional Schools (K-8)

The Nokesville School

Pennington Traditional School

Mary G. Porter Traditional School

  • Woodbridge, Virginia
  • Principal: Kaitlyn Engelmeier-Foor [41]
  • Mascot: Patriots
  • Named after Mary G. Porter, an African-American teacher who helped desegregate Dumfries Elementary School.[42]

Elementary Schools

J.W. Alvey Elementary School

Antietam Elementary School

Ashland Elementary School

Bel Air Elementary School

Belmont Elementary School

Maitland C. Bennett Elementary School

Bristow Run Elementary School

Buckland Mills Elementary School

Cedar Point Elementary School

Chris Yung Elementary School

Coles Elementary School

Covington-Harper Elementary School

Dale City Elementary School

Dumfries Elementary School

Suella Gilbert Ellis Elementary School

  • Manassas, Virginia
  • Principal: Laura Gazda [59]
  • Mascot: Explorers
  • Named after the first African-American administrator in Prince William County, Suella Gilbert Ellis [60]

Enterprise Elementary School

Featherstone Elementary School

Fannie W. Fitzgerald Elementary School

Glenkirk Elementary School

Samuel L. Gravely Elementary School

Haymarket Elementary School

Alexander Henderson Elementary School

John D. Jenkins Elementary School

  • Woodbridge, Virginia
  • Principal: Xanthe McFadden[70]
  • Mascot: Yellow Jackets
  • Named after the longest-serving member in the history of the Prince William Board of County Supervisors, John D. Jenkins [71]

Kerrydale Elementary School

R. Dean Kilby Elementary School

Martin Luther King, Jr. Elementary School

Lake Ridge Elementary School

Leesylvania Elementary School

Loch Lomond Elementary School

Thurgood Marshall Elementary School

Marumsco Hills Elementary School

Sharon C. McAuliffe Elementary School

Minnieville Elementary School

Montclair Elementary School

Mountain View Elementary School

Mullen Elementary School

Neabsco Elementary School

Occoquan Elementary School

Old Bridge Elementary School

John F. Pattie, Sr. Elementary School

Sonnie P. Penn Elementary School

  • Woodbridge, Virginia
  • Principal: Elliot Bolles [90]
  • Mascot: Panthers
  • Named after former Assistant Principal at Enterprise Elementary, and community youth leader and mentor, Sonnie P. Penn [91]

Piney Branch Elementary School

Potomac View Elementary School

River Oaks Elementary School

Rockledge Elementary School

Rosa Parks Elementary School

Signal Hill Elementary School

Charles A. Sinclair Elementary School

  • Manassas, Virginia
  • Principal: Heather Goode [97]
  • Mascot: Eagles
  • Named after former Prince William County Treasurer and Mayor of Manassas, Charles A. Sinclair [98]

Springwoods Elementary School

Sudley Elementary School

Swans Creek Elementary School

T. Clay Wood Elementary School

Triangle Elementary School

George Grayson Tyler Elementary School

Elizabeth Vaughan Elementary School

Victory Elementary School

West Gate Elementary School

Westridge Elementary School

Mary Williams Elementary School

Kyle R. Wilson Elementary School

Yorkshire Elementary School

Specialty programs

Elementary Foreign/World Languages Programs are available at Enterprise, Mullen, River Oaks, Tyler, Lake Ridge and Signal Hill elementary schools.

Elementary Mathematics and Science Program are available at Belmont and Sudley elementary Schools.

International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme (PYP) are in the consideration phase at Antietam, Buckland Mills, Dumfries, Ellis, Featherstone, Parks, Victory, and Williams elementary schools.

Pennington School and Porter School, both schools of choice and serving students in grades 1 through 8, provide Traditional Schools Serving Students at the Elementary and Middle School Levels.

Other

Prince William County provides an "alternative" school service for what they deem as "troubled teens". Students who become pregnant, sell or use drugs, write graffiti, have general behavioral issues or are prone to violence are usually sent to learn together in the same facility, regardless of their base school. The PACE program targets students with more extreme cases of psychological issues.

  • Independent Hill School/PACE East, special education school for middle & high school students
  • New Directions Alternative School, special school for students who are not successful in their base school
  • New Dominion Alternative School, special school for middle school students
  • PACE West, a special education school providing services to students with serious emotional and behavior problems
  • Pennington Traditional School, rigorous school for first through eighth graders [Formerly a high school, grades 9-12]
  • Porter Traditional School, specialty school for first through eighth graders
  • Woodbine Preschool Center, a center for preschool-aged children with developmental disabilities
  • East End Alternative, now defunct. Previously located at a Woodbridge Boys and Girls Club. The student body was migrated to Pennington Alternative School in the mid-1990s.

Schools of excellence

Prince William County Public Schools honors schools as Schools of Excellence based on a variety of criteria, including: performance targets; Adequate Yearly Progress under the No Child Left Behind Act; Virginia Wellness Tests; school attendance rates; and parent, student, and teacher satisfaction. The Virginia state Standards of Learning (SOL) tests for both students on grade level and students below grade level are also considered.[114] In 2006, the criteria were adjusted to reflect the continuous improvement of the system's schools.[115]

School administration and staff are presented with a commemorative flag, a plaque, and a check to be used at the school's discretion. Schools receive $1,000 for each year the School of Excellence designation is obtained.[116]

200120022003200420052006200720082009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
Elementary 131028403223222735 36 16 32 37 38 30
Middle 0271290002 3 0 6 5 5 0
High 227544112 1 0 0 0 1 2
Other 010111212 2 2 2 2 2 2
Total 151542584628252941 42 18 40 44 46 34

See also

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