Rockingham County Public Schools is the public school district in Rockingham County in the U.S. state of Virginia.
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District Name | County | Students* | Grade range |
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Rockingham County Public Schools | Rockingham County, Virginia | 11404 | Prekindergarten - 12th Grade |
School name | City | Students* | Grade range |
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Broadway High School | Broadway, Virginia | 1102 | 9th Grade - 12th Grade |
Nickname | Fighting Gobblers | School colors | Green and white |
East Rockingham High School | Elkton, Virginia | Unknown | 9th Grade - 12th Grade |
Nickname | Eagles | School colors | Red and black |
Spotswood High School | Penn Laird, Virginia | 1381 | 9th Grade - 12th Grade |
Nickname | Trailblazers | School colors | Blue and gray |
Named after | Former Virginia Lt. Governeror Alexander Spotswood | Year opened | 1980 |
Controversy | Spotswood made headines briefly in 2000, when teacher Jeffry Newton, with the backing of 'freedom of speech' advocacy organizations including the ACLU and American Library Association, went to court over an incident covering several weeks in September 1999, when then principal C. James Slye ordered Newton to remove some pamphlets from his classroom's door that had been posted in observance of Banned Books Week. The suit was dismissed before the case could be heard. | ||
Notes | The school colors were selected from the colors of the two high schools it consolidated in the 1980s: Elkton High School (blue and gold) and Montevideo (maroon and gray). In the fall of 1984, Spotswood became a 9-12 school and changed to its present name, Spotswood High School. Spotswood High School website | ||
Turner Ashby High School | Bridgewater, Virginia | 1115 | 9th Grade - 12th Grade |
Nickname | Knights | School colors | Black and white |
Named after | Confederate Civil War General, Turner Ashby | Year opened | 1956 |
School name | City | Students* | Grade range |
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Elkton Middle School | Elkton, Virginia | 480 | 5th Grade - 8th Grade |
J. Frank Hillyard Middle School | Broadway, Virginia | 843 | 6th Grade - 8th Grade |
Montevideo Middle School | Penn Laird, Virginia | 596 | 6th Grade - 8th Grade |
Wilbur S. Pence Middle School | Dayton, Virginia | 796 | 6th Grade - 8th Grade |
School name | City | Students* | Grade range |
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Cub Run Elementary School | Penn Laird, Virginia | unknown | Prekindergarten-5th Grade |
Elkton Elementary School | Elkton, Virginia | 634 | Prekindergarten - 4th Grade |
Fulks Run Elementary School | Fulks Run, Virginia | 169 | Prekindergarten - 5th Grade |
John C. Myers Elementary School | Broadway, Virginia | 462 | Prekindergarten - 5th Grade |
John W. Wayland Elementary School | Bridgewater, Virginia | 552 | Prekindergarten - 5th Grade |
Lacey Spring Elementary School | Harrisonburg, Virginia | 307 | Prekindergarten - 5th Grade |
Linville-Edom Elementary School | Linville, Virginia | 185 | Prekindergarten - 5th Grade |
McGaheysville Elementary School | McGaheysville, Virginia | 397 | Prekindergarten - 5th Grade |
Mountain View Elementary School | Harrisonburg, Virginia | 480 | Prekindergarten - 5th Grade |
Ottobine Elementary School | Dayton, Virginia | 179 | Prekindergarten - 5th Grade |
Peak View Elementary School | Penn Laird, Virginia | 536 | Prekindergarten - 5th Grade |
Plains Elementary School | Timberville, Virginia | 530 | Prekindergarten - 5th Grade |
Pleasant Valley Elementary School | Harrisonburg, Virginia | 295 | Prekindergarten - 5th Grade |
South River Elementary School | Grottoes, Virginia | 382 | Prekindergarten - 5th Grade |
School name | City | Students* | Grade range |
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Dayton Learning Center | Dayton, Virginia |
*Student counts as of 2006
Congressman Bob Goodlatte recognized Montevideo Middle School Instructional Technology Resource Teacher Joe Showker with a Children's Champion Award for his work with the Web Wise Kids (WWK) program throughout Virginia.
The newest grant news would be for our Title I school that were recognized as Distinguished Title I Schools and received Academic Achievement grants. Fulks Run and South River Elementary Schools each received $17,000 for the past two years of SOL Assessment achievement. Pleasant Valley and Mountain View Elementary Schools received $8,500 each for their students' SOL Assessment achievement.
RCPS teacher, Janis Churchill, was selected as the outstanding elementary school technology teacher in Virginia by the International Society for Technology in Education Association.
For their work during the 2005-2006 school year, numerous RCPS teachers received Shenandoah Valley Economics Awards, and many of those teachers received state-level recognition.
High school agriculture, business, family and consumer sciences, health sciences, marketing, technology, and trade and industrial students competed in regional, state, and national level competitions, receiving numerous individual and team awards. Students served as regional and state officers of their career and technical education youth organizations. Annually, RCPS middle and high school students win scholarships from the State Fair of Virginia and other agencies as a result of their participation in career and technical programs.
The Spotswood High School Chapter of the Future Educators of America (FEA) received an invitation to present at the 2007 National Conference for FEA.