2018-19 School Successes

Hampton City Schools logo93% of the division’s schools are accredited without conditions

  • Highest accreditation rate in six years

Posted the highest on-time graduation rate of 92.6% since 2008

  • Exceeds state average

Lowest dropout rate – 1.57 percent – in two decades

  • Below statewide average of 5.5 percent
  • Second lowest of the 15 school divisions in our region

Dual enrollment credit hours increased 600 percent over the past three years, totaling 6,977 credits earned since 2015-16

  • Saving students and families nearly $1 million in Virginia Community College System tuition
  • Equivalent to a total cost savings of approximately $6.3 million at a four-year college or university

The Class of 2018 earned 2,517 industry credentials across 66 different industry pathways

  • The Academies of Hampton offered 16 wall-to-wall college and career academies with 44 pathways throughout our four high schools
  • Featured in Old Dominion University’s 2018 State of the Region Report as The Next Generation of Learning in Hampton Roads
  • Highlighted by the Center for American Progress as one of the four models working across the country for high school redesign