Culpeper County Public Schools is celebrating continued academic growth and success across the division, with improving student performance, strong school performance scores and all CCPS schools earning full accreditation for the 2026-27 school year.
Divisionwide progress and accreditation
The positive results reflect the ongoing work of students, teachers, staff and school leaders across CCPS and demonstrate continued progress in key academic areas.
The Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) formally notified Superintendent Dr. Brads on September 18 that all schools in Culpeper County met the required compliance standards established under the Virginia Standards of Accreditation and will be fully accredited for 2026-27.
“This is something our entire school community can celebrate,” said Dr. Brads. “Our students are growing, our schools are making progress and our staff members continue to work incredibly hard to help every student succeed. While there is always more work ahead, these results give us many reasons to be proud of the direction we are heading.”
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Three years of academic growth
Recent Standards of Learning (SOL) results provide another reason to celebrate, with overall CCPS reading and mathematics scores increasing over each of the past three years.
Mathematics continues to be an area of strength and growth. CCPS students in grades 4, 5 and 6 performed above the state average in mathematics, while third-grade mathematics was within 1.1 percentage points of the state. The division’s overall mathematics pass rate reached 71.7%, just 1.3 percentage points from the statewide rate of 73%.
Reading scores have also shown steady improvement over the past three years. Fourth-grade reading performance was within 1.6 percentage points of the state average, while high school students achieved an 82.7% pass rate on the End-of-Course Reading assessment. CCPS students also demonstrated successes in history, with fourth-grade Virginia Studies performance exceeding the state average.
Strong results across CCPS schools
The division also shared results from Virginia’s School Performance and Support Framework, which looks beyond traditional SOL pass rates to provide a broader picture of school performance.
The framework incorporates measures of academic mastery, student growth and readiness at the elementary and middle school levels, while high school scores incorporate mastery, readiness and graduation.
These framework scores consider multiple measures of student and school success, including reading, mathematics and science performance; English learner progress; student growth in reading and mathematics; and chronic absenteeism.
CCPS framework scores based on the 2025-26 school year ranged from 81.8 to 93.1 across the division. Four schools, Pearl Sample, Emerald Hill, A.G. Richardson Elementary and Culpeper County High School, earned scores of 90 or higher, giving them performance ratings of “Distinguished.” The other schools' framework scores are not far behind, with Sycamore Park, Yowell, Culpeper Middle and Floyd T. Binns earning a performance level of “Meets Expectations.” While Farmington Elementary and Eastern View High School’s framework scores fall within the “Meets Expectations” range, federal identification for a small subset of students required them to be moved to the “Approaching Expectations” performance rating.
Building on success
For CCPS, the results provide both an opportunity to celebrate the progress already underway and a foundation for continued improvement.
“We are proud of where our schools are today, but we are even more excited about where they are going,” Brads added. “Growth happens because of the work taking place in our classrooms every day. We will continue building on that momentum and keeping student success at the center of everything we do.”
