Loudoun County Public Schools Improve In VA Performance Assessment

ASHBURN, VA – Loudoun County Public Schools reports that more schools in the division earned Virginia’s highest performance rating this year, and 90% of its schools met or surpassed expectations under the state’s assessment framework.

According to an LCPS release, 66 of the district’s 98 eligible schools were rated Distinguished, up from 46 last year. Overall, 88 LCPS schools, or 90%, were rated Distinguished or Meets Expectations under the Virginia Department of Education’s School Performance and Support Framework (SPSF).

The framework assesses schools on students' mastery of skills, year-to-year growth, readiness for advancement, and, if applicable, graduation. The state's rating system gives a distinguished rating to schools that score 90 points or above. Schools meeting expectations earned 80 to 89 points; the threshold for Approaching Expectations starts at 65 points.

Nine LCPS schools were rated Approaching Expectations, and one was rated Needs Intensive Support, the lowest category. Last year, LCPS rated 18 schools in the two lowest performance categories.

This year, Park View High School in Sterling scored 77.52 points and was rated Needs Intensive Support.

Schools rated as approaching expectations were Banneker Elementary in Middleburg, Frederick Douglass Elementary in Leesburg, Meadowland Elementary in Sterling, Rolling Ridge Elementary in Sterling, Sterling Elementary, Sugarland Elementary in Sterling, Sterling Middle School, Dominion High in Sterling and W.O. Robey High School in Sterling.

The district noted that Loudoun County schools compared favorably with other large school divisions in the Virginia Education Department’s Region 4, which includes Fairfax County, Alexandria, Arlington and Prince William County.

Sixty-seven percent of eligible LCPS schools were rated Distinguished, compared with 49% of schools across the region, and LCPS had the highest percentage of Distinguished schools among the state’s large school divisions. Leesburg Elementary posted the fourth-largest year-on-year gain in assessment points in the district.

LCPS says every school rated below Meets Expectations has a support plan, and the school board will monitor the schools' progress.

LCPS will discuss the state performance results in more detail at the next Loudoun County School Board meeting being held Oct. 13.

According to the Virginia Department of Education, between 2025 and 2026, schools grew four to five points on average on the state's School Performance and Support Framework.