Alexandria City Public Schools

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Alexandria City Public Schools
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Address
1340 Braddock Place
Alexandria
, Virginia, 22314
United States
District information
Type School division
EstablishedNovember 23, 1785;237 years ago (1785-11-23)
SuperintendentMelanie Kay-Wyatt [1]
Schools18
Budget$283.9 million (FY2018) [2]
NCES District ID 5100120 [3]
Students and staff
Enrollment15,737
Teachers1,415
Staff937
Student–teacher ratio14:1
Athletic conference Gunston District
Region 6C
Other information
Website www.acps.k12.va.us

Alexandria City Public Schools (ACPS) is a school division which is funded by the government of Alexandria, Virginia, United States.

Contents

Administration

Superintendent

The Alexandria City School Board has appointed Dr. Melanie Kay-Wyatt to serve as the new permanent superintendent for Alexandria City Public Schools, effective July 1, 2023. Dr. Kay-Wyatt was selected from a pool of 35 applicants in a national search process, emerging as the best candidate to move our schools forward. She was ACPS chief of human resources before her appointment as interim superintendent in August 2022; previously, she had served as acting chief of human resources and executive director of human resources. She joined the school division in July 2021. Prior to ACPS, Kay-Wyatt worked in Human Resources at Spotsylvania Public Schools, served as a principal and assistant principal at Fredericksburg City Public Schools, and was a special education teacher at both Culpeper County Schools and Fredericksburg City Public Schools. [4]

School Board

There are nine members of the Alexandria City Public School Board. All members of the board are elected by district, and the chair is appointed by the board. There are also two student representatives. [5]

Members

District A

  • Jacinta Greene
  • Michelle Rief
  • Christopher A. Suarez

District B

  • Cindy M. Anderson
  • Margaret Lorber
  • Veronica R. Nolan, Vice Chair

District C

  • Meagan L. Alderton, Chair [6]
  • Ramee Gentry
  • Heather Thornton

Student Representatives

  • Lorraine Jackson
  • Ashley Sanchez-Viafara

History

The first school offering public education in Alexandria was founded in 1785, the Washington Free School, partly funded by George Washington. [7]

Although the desegregation process began in 1959 when nine black school children entered all-white Theodore Ficklin Elementary School after an NAACP lawsuit, it was not until 1974 that Superintendent John Albohm announced "This year, we have finally reorganized our elementary schools and, in a broad sense, have completed the desegregation of our school system kindergarten through grade 12". [7]

In November 2020, the school board unanimously voted to rename T. C. Williams High School and Matthew Maury Elementary School, with name selection coming before the 2021–22 school year. [8] This follows years of community efforts to rename T. C. Williams because its namesake, a former superintendent of Alexandria City Public Schools, was a supporter of racial segregation in schools.

In March 2021, the superintendent put forward two final names after community input: "Alexandria High School" and "Naomi Brooks Elementary School", after a former teacher who died in 2020. The school board voted in April 2021 to change the school's names to Alexandria City High School and Naomi L. Brooks Elementary School. [9]

Schools

The Alexandria City Public Schools consists of the following schools. [10]

Elementary schools

K–8 schools

Middle schools

High schools

See also

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References

  1. ↑ "Superintendent / ACPS Superintendent". Alexandria City Public Schools. Retrieved May 6, 2023.
  2. ↑ "About ACPS - Fast Facts". Alexandria City Public Schools. Retrieved January 24, 2019.
  3. ↑ "Search for Public School Districts – District Detail for Alexandria City Public Schools". National Center for Education Statistics . Institute of Education Sciences . Retrieved 25 January 2019.
  4. ↑ "Superintendent of Schools / ACPS Superintendent of Schools". http. Archived from the original on 2017-06-27. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
  5. ↑ "School Board Overview / Office of the School Board". http. Archived from the original on 2017-06-27. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
  6. ↑ Mello-Klein, Cody (2021-01-08). "School Board appoints Meagan Alderton as chair, reappoints Veronica Nolan as vice chair | Alexandria Times | Alexandria, VA" . Retrieved 2021-04-13.
  7. 1 2 "History of ACPS / History of ACPS".
  8. ↑ Sullivan, Lindsey (2020-12-03). "School board votes to rename T.C. Williams High School". Alexandria Times. Retrieved 2020-12-29.
  9. ↑ "New Alexandria school names for TC Williams, Maury announced". 4 March 2021.
  10. ↑ "Our Schools / Overview". Alexandria City Public Schools. Retrieved July 2, 2018.
  11. ↑ "History of Charles Barrett". Alexandria City Public Schools. Retrieved July 3, 2018.
  12. ↑ "City of Alexandria Seeks Public Comment on Proposal to Rename Cora Kelly Recreation Center to Honor Leonard "Chick" Armstrong". Alexandria City. Retrieved July 9, 2018.
  13. ↑ "About Samuel Tucker". Alexandria City Public Schools. Retrieved July 3, 2018.


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