Frederick County Public Schools is inviting students, parents, teachers, staff and members of the community to participate in the Season of Celebration and Success through June 7. The Season of Celebration and Success is an opportunity to share success stories from the 2017-18 school year and to thank Frederick County Public Schools’ employees who have made a difference for students. Submit your success story.

Under certain circumstances, students in grades 3-8 who fail an SOL test in reading, mathematics, science or history by a small margin may retake the tests they fail. Parental permission is required for students to retake an SOL test. Learn more about SOL retakes.

We would like to invite you to our Fifth Grade Promotion Ceremony. Please join us as we celebrate our fifth grade students rising up to become James Wood Middle School Bulldogs. The ceremony will be held on June 6, 2018, in the James Wood Middle School Auditorium at 6:00 p.m. We look forward to seeing your family there.

The latest edition of Frederick County Public Schools’ E-newsletter FCPS Focus is now available.

The Virginia Education Association has recognized the STARS (Students Teaching and Reaching Students) Mentoring Program at Admiral Richard E. Byrd Middle School with its Barbara Johns Youth Award for Human Relations and Civil Rights.

Millbrook High School Principal Carolyn Price has announced that she will be retiring at the end of the 2017-18 school year. Mrs. Price has spent her entire career with Frederick County Public Schools.

Preliminary applications for the 2018-19 FCPS preschool program are still being accepted from the families of eligible students residing in the Apple Pie Ridge, Gainesboro, Indian Hollow, Redbud Run and Stonewall elementary school attendance zones. Preliminary applications should be completed and submitted at the preschool student’s base school.

The Virginia Department of Education has awarded FCPS a $37,500 grant to fund the purchase of new equipment for the school division’s career and technical education program​s​.

Buzz-in entry systems will be installed prior to the start of the 2018-19 school year at all schools that are not currently equipped with such systems. Due to limited resources, the majority of the project will be funded by delaying some facility maintenance projects the school division had planned to address this year. All school facilities constructed in the future will also include secure entry systems.

The 2018-19 School Calendar has been adopted. The first day of the 2018-19 school year for students is August 15, 2018.

Congratulations to Schools Superintendent David Sovine for being named the Virginia Department of Education’s Region IV Superintendent of the Year. Dr. Sovine is one of eight finalists for the Virginia Superintendent of the Year Award.