VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. – Virginia Beach City Public Schools is projecting 94 percent of its schools will earn full Standards of Learning accreditation for the 2016-2017 school year.
It’s a five percent increase from last year.
VBCPS is making the projection based on SOL passing rates which will be released next week by the Virginia Department of Education.
Seventy-seven of the 82 testing schools are expected to make accreditation, including all 11 high schools.
College Park Elementary School will earn full accreditation for the first time in four years, making gains in all areas ranging from 17 to 41 percentage points.
Williams Elementary School is projected to earn full accreditation for the first time in five years and saw double-digit increases in science.
Green Run High School, which didn’t earn accreditation the previous school year and has 54 percent of its school population qualified as economically disadvantaged, is expected to make full accreditation as well.
The schools that are not projected to earn full accreditation missed the necessary benchmarks by small margins. Out of the nearly 158,000 tests taken across the school division, VBCPS was 47 passing tests away from meeting accreditation benchmarks at all schools in all subjects.
The Virginia Department of Education is scheduled to release its state accreditation ratings on September 14.