Spotsylvania County Public Schools (2024)

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Spotsylvania High School is ranked 222nd within Virginia. Students have the opportunity to take Advanced Placement® coursework and exams. The AP® participation rate at Spotsylvania High School is 27%. The total minority enrollment is 36%, and 66% of students are economically disadvantaged.

Spotsylvania County Public Schools is an above average, public school district located in FREDERICKSBURG, VA. It has 24,201 students in grades PK, K-12 with a student-teacher ratio of 15 to 1.

Riverbend High School, as well as all Spotsylvania County schools are on a 4.5 GPA scale with Advanced Placement and Dual Enrollment classes on a 5.5 scale. This means that a 100 in a normal class is weighted the same as a 90 in an AP class.

In the United States, academic grading commonly takes on the form of five, six or seven letter grades. Traditionally, the grades are A+, A, A−, B+, B, B−, C+, C, C−, D+, D, D− and F, with A+ being the highest and F being lowest. In some cases, grades can also be numerical.

In 2022, there were 3.96 times more White (Non-Hispanic) residents (91.5k people) in Spotsylvania County, VA than any other race or ethnicity. There were 23.1k Black or African American (Non-Hispanic) and 6.89k Other (Hispanic) residents, the second and third most common ethnic groups.

The largest institution is Liberty University, with over 110,000 students.

At least three Spotsylvania teachers report being involuntarily transferred to a new job site less than a month before the start of the new school year and in a way that does not follow division policy concerning involuntary transfers.

Spotsylvania County was established in 1721. The County was named for Alexander Spotswood, Colonial Governor of Virginia, who founded an ironworks in the early 1700s. His “'Iron Mines Company”, a mining and smelting operation, was founded in 1725 at Germanna.

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Spotsylvania Courthouse

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Spotsylvania residents are represented by Abigail Spanberger (D-7th District) in the House of Representatives. The current U.S. senators from the Commonwealth of Virginia are Mark Warner (D) and Tim Kaine (D).

Procedure for All Courses

Each final grade will be given the indicated value: A=4, A- = 3.7, B+ = 3.3, B=3, B- = 2.7, C+ = 2.3, C=2.0, C- = 1.7, D+ = 1.3, D=1.0, E=O. Each indicated value for a year course is to be recorded twice, and each indicated value for a semester course is to be recorded once.