In the News Archive

PRESS RELEASE – December 14, 2018

Congratulations to Mr. Gary Greenwood on being named a winner of the Virginia Council on Economic Education 2018 Economic Educator Awards Program. Mr. Greenwood’s entry, Setting Up Your Class as a Business, won First Place for K-12 Lesson/Unit. Mr. Greenwood received $1,000 at the Council’s annual awards luncheon on Friday, December 7.

PRESS RELEASE – December 11, 2018

Congratulations to Kevin Burruss, Katie Morris and Madison Kennedy who won third place in the Virginia School Board Association’s Video Contest for their video “Why Teachers are Important.” Winners were announced at the Annual Convention on November 14, 2018.

PRESS RELEASE – October 10, 2018

Applications are now available for the Summer Residential Governor’s School. Students must be in either 10th or 11th grade, and be gifted or an advanced student in one of the following areas: Foreign Language, Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Humanities, Math, Science, Technology, Agriculture, Medicine, Space or Marine science. Each Summer Residential Governor’s School focuses on one special area of interest. Students live on a college or university campus for up to four weeks each summer. During this time, students are involved in classroom and laboratory work, field studies, research, individual and group projects and performances, and seminars with noted scholars, visiting artists, and other professionals. In the three mentorships, students are selected to work side-by-side with research scientists, physicians, and a variety of other professionals. A director and student-life staff provide supervision of students 24 hours a day, throughout the program.

PRESS RELEASE – October 10, 2018

Fluvanna County High School has earned the Blue Star School Award for 2018 for W!SE Financial Literacy. This is the fifth consecutive year that the High School has received this honor. The High School administered W!SE certification tests for the first time during the 2013-2014 school year. The school earned an 82 percent pass rate on the test, with 249 high school students earning the credential during the 2017-18 school year.

PRESS RELEASE – October 1, 2018

The Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) released state-level, division-level, and school-level cohort reports that detail outcomes for students who entered the ninth grade for the first time in 2014 and were scheduled to graduate in the spring of 2018. High school cohort reports for schools, school divisions, and the Commonwealth are available for viewing and downloading in the Virginia School Report Card section of the VDOE Web site.

PRESS RELEASE – October 1, 2018

Fluvanna County High School announced today that Bayley Leyshon and William “Liam” Bridge have been named Commended Students in the 2019 National Merit Scholarship Program. A Letter of Commendation from the school and National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC), which conducts the program, was presented to these scholastically talented seniors.

PRESS RELEASE – August 15, 2018

There is an opening for Fluvanna County High School’s Grade 10 class in Blue Ridge Virtual Governor’s School. The program accepts 36 students for each class and a vacancy has become available.