This listing is for First Colonial HS home of the Patriots and Legal Studies Academy. My son…read morerecently took the SAT here. The building was constructed in 1966. A few other schools in VB have a similar design and built in the same era such as Kempsville and Princess Anne. The school is on Mill Dam in between First Colonial and Great Neck. From what I can see it's maintained. It was renovated in 1993. Unfortunately they have space issues and have several modular classrooms in the rear. The school is considered one of probably three of the best high schools at the beach. The Legal Academy helps bolster it. However, the area it's in the District is higher socioeconomic. First Colonial is well known for its success in sports. Most notably football. But move over...it's Girls Swim that is getting all the attention as of late. The school this year moved to 5A and should easily win a Girls state title in Swimming. What you have is a strong school academically and toss in years of sports championships. Great option for students in Virginia Beach.

Outstanding Legal Studies Academy, challenging classes and very active PTSA! Lacrosse program is…read morealso stellar!

Outstanding teachers and learning experience. One of the best middle school teachers in the City.read more

A kid opened a barbershop in the school, 25 cents a cut, nice cuts, but this kid kept crying.read more

School is Jaun dale dingles home I went here and there strawberry milk frozen yogurt burger here…read moreand it was marenated so good

This is about a public school. How does one start to review a public school. That sounds right out…read moreimpossible to do. But this is about VB middle and my reason to why I rate it higher than just any school that we have experienced. I can only speak for my child, but they challenge her. That's what I like about the school systems here.

food is so bad and makes me sick they served pizza right and THERE WAS WATER OR SOME LIQUID ON THE…read moreBOTTOM OF THE PIZZA -0/10 and so much kids be spamming the N word.

Overpriced, however considering the public school system it's either pay me now or pay me later…read more Let's face it the educational system in this country has been ruined by folks with 'perceptual errors' that tend to get nearly everything and everyone backwards. Unfortunately our public school system and kids have paid the price. Cape Henry is a fine school with good teachers the high tuition is probably a good thing because it keeps out the undesirables. I'm not saying they're aren't some rotten apples here, but they're capped and somewhat isolated whereas in the public schools the rotten apples often own the place.

Great experience at CHC. We have a Pre-k student who can't wait to get to school, and raves about…read morehis teachers and what he's learned. Wonderful school culture.

We enrolled our daughter at Virginia Beach Friends School for her 6th grade year, drawn in by the…read morepromise of small class sizes, individualized attention, and a school culture built on kindness. Sadly, our experience fell far short of those promises, and we made the difficult decision to withdraw her mid-year. Small Class Size Individualized Attention Our daughter's class had only six students -- something we believed would mean more personalized instruction and closer teacher-student relationships. In practice, that was not the case. Teachers were not proactively communicating with us about our daughter's academic performance or classroom participation, despite the fact that there were only five other students in her entire grade. A Serious Bullying Situation That Was Never Communicated to Us: The only other girl in our daughter's class made daily threats -- including saying she wanted to break our daughter's spine and throw her out of a window. This same peer also openly discussed self-harm in the classroom. These are not minor social conflicts. They are serious, ongoing threats that any school should be obligated to communicate to parents immediately. Our daughter started the year strong, finishing Q1 with all A's and B's. As the bullying continued, her grades began to slip in Q2. It wasn't until we proactively reached out that a meeting was arranged with the head of school, the educational director and the admissions director. During that two-hour meeting, we learned that the school had already been aware of this student's behavior, had met with her family, and had issued consequences such as silent lunch -- multiple times. We were well into late January and had never received a single call, email, or notification about any of this. That meeting produced a clear action plan: teachers would make a greater effort to connect with our daughter, and the educational director would meet with her individually each week to help get her academics back on track. Neither of these commitments was ever followed through on by the school. In the weeks after that meeting -- and after we informed the school we would not be re-enrolling for the following year -- our daughter began receiving write-ups for minor infractions: breaking a pencil, tearing up a piece of paper, not asking for help. We also received her Q2 report card, which included a D in PE. Not once had her PE teacher reached out to share any concerns about her performance or participation. In a class of six children, there is simply no excuse for that lack of communication. The pattern of events that followed our meeting, combined with our decision not to re-enroll, felt deeply retaliatory rather than supportive. We ultimately pulled our daughter from Virginia Beach Friends School mid-week and transitioned her to a public school to complete the remaining 2.5 months of the school year. It was not a decision we made lightly, but it was the right one for her wellbeing. TLDR: Virginia Beach Friends School markets itself as a place where children feel safe being uniquely themselves, and where kindness is the school's number one value. Based on our family's experience, those values did not translate into action. Our daughter did not feel supported, seen, or protected for a single day she attended. If you are considering this school for your child, we strongly encourage you to ask hard questions about how they handle bullying, how they communicate with parents, and how they follow through on commitments -- before you make your commitment.

We're in the middle of our second year at VBFS. Our daughter is thriving! She loves going to school…read moreevery morning, and is sad to leave each afternoon. The teachers and staff are all fully engaged and committed, and it shows. The teacher/student ratio is fantastic, with lots of individual attention. The only drawback for us is that there is no dedicated drama teacher or yoga this year. Our daughter loved the plays last year, and the yoga instruction, and misses both this year. But she has LOVES music, art, technology, P.E., square dancing, and Spanish, as well as her regular academics. We look forward to continuing at Friends School.

Hey Mamas with kids at WAVE DAYCARE. Our 7 month old came home with matching thumbprint bruises on…read moreher arms in September. CPS reviewed all footage from that week in her classroom (infants). My husband and I were finally able to see it after a 2 month investigation. They found multiple instances with ALL teachers in her classroom, involving multiple children, where there is excessive force being used and negligence of the children, including my daughter. The instance of my daughter, one of the most tenured teachers in the classroom, Jhamica, was feeding her in an activity center and becomes frustrated by her not eating fast enough. She grabs a bouncer (clearly pissed) and yanks my daughter out of the activity center and proceeds to throw her down into the bouncer. I could not believe my eyes. Especially because we had so much trust for Jhamica and never saw her behave with this type force or anger, ever. This was night and day from how she behaved when we as parents were present. We were told by CPS that there was far worse treatment witnessed in their review of all the footage of this infant classroom. The "teachers" are routinely snatching the babies up by ONE ARM and tossing them onto the floor. CPS mentioned specifically in our discussion yesterday, the roughest treatment and one-armed snatching / throwing involving a boy who wears a helmet in the classroom and a girl who started walking. The "teachers" were referred to CPS as lazy, sitting in the rocking chairs almost all day long, completely ignoring the kids until absolutely necessary. There's a special place in hell for these people.

My daughter is currently in Elementary school. She has been a student at Wave since she was three…read more She LOVES the teachers & Admin team. She entered kindergarten full of confidence as a result of all the support she received from them.