Armel will be celebrating Read Across America this year with a fun reading challenge. Students will be divided up into grade level teams. Each team will log the minutes they read both at home and at school on a reading tracker located on the Armel webpage. Students will start on the east coast and travel route 50, gaining one mile for every minute read. The contest will run February 22 through Friday, February 28.

Purchase an Armel "Seas the Day" t-shirt for only $7 while supplies last.

The latest edition of Frederick County Public Schools’ E-newsletter FCPS Focus is now available.

In his proposed FY21 budget, Superintendent David Sovine addresses enrollment growth, increased student needs, attracting and keeping high-quality teachers and staff, opening Jordan Springs Elementary School and funding preventative maintenance projects.

FCPS is hosting a Teacher Career Fair on February 29. Pre-registration is encouraged.

The Frederick County Circuit Court has issued an Order of Publication regarding the School Board's request to relocate and reinter the abandoned graveyard found on the site of the replacement Robert E. Aylor Middle School.

Parents with a student currently enrolled in Frederick County Public Schools should register their rising kindergarten student between February 3 and 28. Parents who have no children currently enrolled in FCPS should register their child for kindergarten from March 3-31. Parents should complete the registration process at the elementary school their child will attend.

Frederick County Public Schools Supervisor of Career and Technical Education Mary Beth Echeverria has been named the 2020 Virginia Association for Career and Technical Education Administrator of the Year.

Winchester VFW Post 2123 has named Orchard View Elementary School First Grade Teacher Kim Greene its Elementary School Teacher of the Year and Frederick County Middle School Eighth Grade Teacher Matt Stegmaier its Middle School Teacher of the Year.

FCPS has developed a special Web page to help citizens follow the 2019 General Assembly session and bills that could impact public schools. The page also includes contact information for Frederick County's state legislators.