Excellent school with a good faculty to help build our children. Teachers are always willing to…read morehelp out through some of the rough patches in our children's growth. Also great physical activities and sports available !!! WRESTLING !!!!

This is my daughter's first year here. The teachers have been great. They communicate regularly…read moreand answer emails quickly. There are numerous extracurricular activities: student council, debate club, sports, etc. She has P.E. and an elective every day. She chose band, but other choices include orchestra, chorus, etc. Foreign language is offered starting in 7th grade. The school is safe and clean. There are student activities on a regular basis. We recently attended a student talent show.

This school is AMAZING! Their techniques are immaculate for helping children grow not only in…read morefaith, but in academics. My son was falling behind, but he has came up to speed very quickly. They have many extr-cirrular options and they also have before and after care. They are VERY AFFORDABLE for this area. I definitely recommend OVCA.

My family loves OVCA! The teachers and administration are awesome. They truly love the children…read moreand their families. This is our 1st year at OVCA. The class sizes are small, so the students get alot of 1:1 contact with their teachers. The love of Jesus is in this school. It is such a blessing to be able to be a part of the OVCA family.

My adult son went to Independence Middle School when VBPS was transitioning from the Junior High to…read moreMiddle School model. He only went to 7th & 8th grades at IMS. Sixth grade was still elementary school. The school is conveniently located in my neighborhood. So it was an easy bike ride to school. My step daughter played on the then Junior High softball team. The ballpark is located adjacent to the school. During my son's time at Independence I served on the PTA Board & as volunteer pianist for the Chorus Teacher, making it easier for her to direct. The school is one that hasn't been replaced in the School Board's continuing project of replacing schools with glitzy new buildings. This makes me happy since replacement takes away the history one experienced in the former building. The sense of place is destroyed. Today my IMS Voting Precinct looks just as it did when my children attended. That makes me happy. The students that attend the school are from a mix of elementary schools. The children from Thoroughgood Elementary are split between Independence & Great Neck Middle. During my children's era those classmates were reunited at Cox High School. Since redistricting the children attend Princess Ann High School, as do most of their IMS classmates. Voting at the school brings back many memories. Those of us who are neighborhood old timers always run into someone we know at the polls. So I enjoyed my voting experience today for many reasons.

The best teachers. My daughter studied here, it's the best school. I am very grateful to the…read moreteachers of this school.

Kellam High School, is a brand new school with everything you could probably think of!!…read more With the capability of having many more students and with state of the art equipment for all activities. Also the awsome and huge gym and stadium will amaze you !!!

12th grade english teacher, Ms Martinez is easily the worst child educator of all time. She is…read moreteaching 17 and 18 year old kids telling them if they dont push their chairs in they dont get a lollipop.... are we in pre-K ????? Her teaching methods are her talking for 30 minutes about anything she wants to and then she gives us an assignment that never takes more than 10 minutes to complete and then we just sit there like sheep in a field until the bell. She doesn't understand how to speak to seniors in high school whatsoever she treats us like 5 year olds. I learned absolutely NOTHING in my time being in her class besides 3 things. 1. I HATE lollipops 2. ms martinez either needs to teach elementary school or grannys in a nursing home and if she isnt doing either of those she just needs to stop and 3. bangs r the ugliest hairstyle a woman could ever put on her head. Overall, Floyd E. Kellam High School is doing ALL of their STUDENTS a MASSIVE disservice letting Ms Martinez teach them english.

This preschool is incredible. The staff members are very warm, inviting, and professional. The…read moreteachers genuinely love these kids. I am so glad my son goes here. I truly cannot say enough good things about it. As a mom with prior daycare and preschool exposure before we moved here, this school takes the win by a landslide. We LOVE Bayside Presbyterian Preschool!

do not enroll your kids here!!! you do not want to waste your time with this child care facility!…read morethe staff are wonderful. wonderful environment, safe for the most part aside from their own past issues regarding relationships in the church. (google the church) the problem is dependability! this daycare closes to often and routinely based off the public school system!!! if thier closed the daycare school is closed. mind you if its a slight weather condition. (closed) the slightest instance boom, closed! multiple other prominent daycare facilities are open. check for yourself! for the average business professional, every day family, your inconvenienced regularly! absurd is a understatement! if you need dependability, reliability so you can manage your professional life this is not the daycare you want to enroll your children in!!! they will close and delay opening routinely!!! do not take my word for it ask other parents. the sentiment is across the board!!! choose another school you'll be doing yourself a huge favor!!! majority of parents bring their kids to the school themselves!! so why the constant closures?!?! what liability?" is there? the church doesn't seem to recognize the concerns of its clients (parents/children)! #seepic

A wonderful school and great educational experience from my youth, I miss it every day as well as…read moremy classmates!!

Site of high school 5A girls volleyball playoffs. Plenty of parking, good indoor/outdoor signage…read moreand some friendly volunteers. Entry price of $10 per person (kids included) is robbery but not set by the site. Boys restroom was a tad untidy and smelled like stale urine, typical high school bathroom. Glad they had working faucets bc our home high school doesn't have this. Gymnasium was a good size; well lit and fairly clean. 2 working scoreboards help keep athletes and spectators informed. Plastic bleachers for seating aren't the most comfortable but certainly better than standing. A good facility for girls volleyball, just wished it wasn't over 30 minutes from home.

He helped me fight bullies and i like the teachers also ots cool how the school is pretty big im…read morenot gonna lie i HATE the math teacher you should fire her

This school is horrible is not amazing at all i would not want to go back there and be there with…read morethem but they have to be in a place of their choice and not just in their home and not in the way that I would want to be in a relationship W and I would be so sad if I didn't

Frank W Cox is an excellent high school on N Great Neck Road in Virginia Beach. My son is a…read moregraduate of the school, which excels in academics & sports. My connection to the school goes beyond my son's education. During the time period my stepdaughter attended, I served as PTA President. The Falcons were a perennial State Field Hockey Champion during that time period. Golf was also a sport in which Cox excelled. During recent years the football team has done quite well. The Cox Falcons can claim over 50 State Championships. Some of my close friends were teachers at the school. Most have now retired. I first met one of my lineage society friends during an Open House when my son was taking one of her classes. We've been delighted in the years since that our friendship began with her having taught my son at Cox. I'll never forget the time our family was dining at a Shore Drive restaurant. I didn't know that the bar was the Cox teachers after school hangout. My stepdaughter was shocked. I remember her horrified statement "Teachers!!" I guess she expected teachers to disappear into the sunset when school ended for the day. :) The administration has always been excellent. I had a wonderful relationship with the principal Emily Tilley during the time I was PTA President. The Assistant Principals were promoted to their own Principal positions. I love the building and its layout. I'm hoping that it doesn't fall prey to the School Boards current "tear down & replace with a Taj Mahal" practice. Traditions & memories are important. My son attended Cox in the morning for academics & the Governors School for the Arts in the afternoon. One story tells everything about their academic excellence. Governor's School students were still expected to complete the same homework as full day students even though they had classes & rehearsals at Governors School well into the evening. My son particularly would complain about the difficulty of homework required in Advanced Placement English Comp. When we attended orientation at University of Cincinnati they conducted testing for all incoming freshman to see if they tested out of Freshman English. Because of my son's extensive classwork at Cox he told me "Please, please don't let me test into a higher level course." Of course he did test out of freshman English. Later in the semester I remembered to ask him about the higher level English class. He said it was easy. So Cox's college prep courses were phenomenal for college success. I love to tell this story to my Cox teacher friends. They should be praised for academic excellence. In recent years I was saddened when the School Board rezoned Thoroughgood from Cox to Princess Ann High School. Although I no longer had a student in school it was sad to see the history of neighborhood connection lost. It was an easier drive to Cox. The neighborhood behind us still goes to Cox. In fact, since my house backs up to that neighborhood, my GPS from the back side of my house thinks I am in Church Point. I'm certain the current generation of young parents are happy with their school, having not experienced Cox. I can't help feeling sad since I have no connection to the new neighborhood school. Even worse, the main proponent of the zoning change was a School Board Member who was a member of my Thoroughgood Elementary PTA Board when her oldest child was in kindergarten. Her children were zoned for Bayside High School. Was it a jealousy rezoning? I'll never be convinced of anything else. Go Falcons! You will always hold a special place in my heart.

Cox High School has a reputation for academics and athletics, The student body excels at both. Many…read moreconsider it as one of the top H.S in Virginia Beach. The school is home to the Falcons and they are only one of two city schools that do not have an academy. My daughter now attends as a Freshman. Located just off Great Neck Rd. its one of the more accessible schools to get in and out. The building looks pretty blah industrial and boring brick. I think it was built in the early 80's. The campus out front is pretty with hundreds of tall trees. The interior is noticeably dated in the auditorium seating. Everything appeared well maintained. I attended a recent orientation at the school and found the faculty to be overall caring. However, it's the administration with Dr. Kelly's leadership as principal that impressed me the most. On the academic side they are always considered a top school. In the last few years their ranking has slipped a bit. Do your own research. Dr. Kelly did tout they had the highest math scores in the city which is huge! On the sports side Cox holds over 50 state championships. In the past they dominated football and swim. Overall they are good at everything and strike on championships at every sport. They recently were moved down to 5A which will help them better compete. Although Cox is my home zone school my daughter had a choice through the academy system. I'm delighted she chose to attend Cox is already plugged in several activities.