A series of fights at Alexandria City High School yesterday injured one student, according to the Alexandria Police Department (APD).
Alexandria City Public Schools (ACPS) closed the school today and tomorrow after a series of “altercations” at the school yesterday (Wednesday). Classes are being taught remotely for the next two days and will resume in-person on Monday, Jan. 6.
Alexandria City High School has been placed on ‘hold status’ until dismissal today “due to a number of altercations in the school building,” Principal Alexander Duncan said in a message to parents.
According to Duncan, the hold status means there is limited movement inside classrooms and hallways and after school activities — except for a concert at 7:30 p.m. this evening — are cancelled.
Hundreds of Alexandria eighth and ninth graders got a taste of the next few years on Wednesday night (Dec. 11).
The first-ever Alexandria City Public Schools Pathways Expo toured kids and their families around Alexandria City High School’s technical education academies program.
It’s a new era for middle school sports in Alexandria, and the girls started it.
On Tuesday (Dec. 3), the George Washington Middle School girls basketball team defeated Jefferson-Houston PreK-8 IB School 22-14 in Alexandria’s first-ever middle school championship basketball game.
For the third year in a row enrollment has been climbing in Alexandria City Public Schools (ACPS), but long-term projections say the city is getting close to a peak before it starts to decline again.
While on the surface student enrollment has increased over the last two decades by roughly 60%, ACPS enrollment projections say student population is expected to peak in FY 2028 before it starts to decline.
Despite mixed community reaction, Alexandria City Public Schools Superintendent Melanie Kay-Wyatt included the conversion of Jefferson-Houston PreK-8 IB School into a middle school and Patrick Henry K-8 School into an elementary school in her proposed 10-year Capital Improvement Program budget.
“That was fun,” a Patrick Henry seventh grader said this afternoon (Nov. 12) after virtually installing solar panels on the roof of a building.
The student wore an Oculus II headset, and got a chance to see what kind of work she could get paid to do in the real world of the future. It’s the first year of the new Career Investigation course for middle schoolers, and today’s class was observed by Virginia Superintendent of Public Instruction Lisa Coons and Alexandria City Public Schools leadership.
Update 10/30: Oct. 25 was a teacher work day, the students in the photo above were not in school.
Every day, countless Alexandria City High School students walk between campuses across one of the busiest intersections in the city, and city leaders said Alexandria’s been very lucky no one has been hurt yet.
Alexandria City Public Schools wants to fully revamp its website over the course of the next several months.
The School Board will get a primer on a “comprehensive review and refresh” of the website at their meeting this Thursday night.
The staffing crisis at Alexandria City Public Schools has simmered, according to a recent presentation to the School Board.
The school system was significantly challenged by a shortfall of more than 150 positions in the 2023/2024 school year. Now ACPS is short 12 .75 teachers, 12 bus drivers and 23 central office staffers.
The Alexandria School Board approved the “Option A – Open Heart” concept for the modernization of George Mason Elementary School.
While the Board voted 7-2 for Option A, it was a contentious vote that saw two abstentions from Members Jacinta Greene and Abdel Elnoubi, who both said that the Board and ACPS staff did not do their “due diligence” in finding the best options to replace the 85-year-old school. They are also both running for City Council in November.
