Sangster Elementary School has been named a 2021 National Blue Ribbon School by the U.S. Department of Education. The Fairfax County school is among seven schools in Virginia receiving the honor this year.

StreamIN/CheckIN is FCPS’ solution for providing meaningful instructional support to students who are paused, quarantined, or isolated due to COVID-19.

More than 80 Afghan students have enrolled in FCPS schools over the past few weeks after hundreds of refugee families made Northern Virginia their first stop in the U.S.

FCPS will conduct virtual interviews with candidates at a Virtual Job Fair on Friday, September 24. FCPS is searching for individuals to serve as student monitors and school public health/COVID case managers.

October 7, 2021 Public Hearing on the Division-Wide Comprehensive Plan

FCPS collaborated with the Fairfax County Health Department to speed up the return to the classroom for fully vaccinated, asymptomatic students who are paused from in-person instruction. A pause occurs when someone is identified as a potential close contact to a COVID-19 positive case.

Sixty-six (66) FCPS students earned the Advanced Placement (AP) Capstone Diploma and twenty-three (23) students earned the AP Seminar and Research Certificate™ during the 2020-2021 school year.

The Fairfax County School Board approved a $188.6 million spending plan for the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER III) grant funds at its Board meeting on August 26.

August 26, 2021 Regular School Board Meeting

The Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) has announced 2020-21 Standards of Learning (SOL) pass rates for school divisions that show that the impact of the pandemic on Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) was similar to that felt across the entire state.