District overview
Prince George County Public Schools
How Prince George County Public Schools is paid for and governed, and what its board has been working on.
Who pays for Prince George County's schools, and who decides?
Prince George County Public Schools serves about 6,100 students south of the Appomattox River in Virginia. It is Prince George County, Virginia, not Prince George's County in Maryland and not Prince William County. Its school board has five members elected from two districts: two from District 1, which covers Rives and Templeton, and three from District 2, covering Blackwater, Bland and Brandon. Like every Virginia division it is fiscally dependent, so the board writes the budget and the county Board of Supervisors decides how much local money it gets. The FY2027 figures show what that means in practice. The budget across all school funds rises 4.1% to $103,147,973, and the operating fund rises 4.2% to $93,468,185, but the county's transfer barely moves: $18,890,086 against $18,882,826 the year before, an increase of $7,260. State revenue does the work instead, rising 5.3% to $69,067,099.
The county's contribution was flat, so the plan was trimmed
About $1.1 million of new positions in the superintendent's first FY2027 proposal were removed before the March 25, 2026 vote, including four school security officers, seven elementary aides, two learning specialists and a part-time psychologist, along with $250,000 of before and after school tutoring. The staff pay rise was cut from 3% to 2%.
Four budget work sessions in five weeks
The board met on the FY2027 budget on January 15, January 29, February 11 and February 19, 2026, took public input at its December and January regular meetings, met jointly with the Board of Supervisors on February 18, and held the advertised public hearing and the vote together on March 25.
A building study is steering the capital plan
Moseley Architects reported a feasibility study of the division's buildings in September 2025, and the board built its capital improvement plan on it a week later. L.L. Beazley Elementary School was one of five topics at the February 2026 joint session with the county.
Meetings are held in the county's own board room
Most regular meetings in the year were held in the Board of Supervisors' meeting room at the county administration building rather than at the school board office, with a closed session before the public session.
A flat county transfer is not the same as a cut. The FY2027 plan keeps existing staffing, adds an ESL teacher, holds health insurance premiums level and still grows the overall budget by 4.1%. What it does not do is add the extra adults the superintendent first asked for, and the money for that came from the state rather than the county.
Where the division stands
Federal NCES Common Core of Data district directory, 2022 collection year. Federal data rather than a division document, so it is context.
Up 4.1% from $99,111,053 in FY2026. It covers the regular operating fund, grants, textbooks and school nutrition.
Up $7,260, or 0%, on the $18,882,826 transferred in FY2026. It is about a fifth of the operating fund.
Up 5.3% from $65,616,110 in FY2026, on the Senate budget figure the division used. It supplies almost three quarters of the operating fund.
Counted from the presentation's own list, worth about $1.1 million: four school security officers, seven elementary aides, two learning specialists, a behavioural support specialist, an instructional coach, a part-time psychologist and a records management clerk. Existing staffing was kept and one new ESL teacher was added.
Twelve regular meetings and 21 special meetings, work sessions, budget sessions and recognition evenings.
Every item the board listed, including procedural ones such as the roll call and the invocation.
From the state Superintendent's Annual Report table the division publishes: $75,119,414 of operating spending across 6,081 pupils in average daily membership. The same document estimates operating spending of $82.9 million for FY2023 and $81.8 million for FY2024.
Step 0 on the FY2027 ten-month teacher scale, after the 2% increase the budget funds. A master's degree adds $2,000 at step 0 and a doctorate $3,000.
The division's consultants project a 4% rise from the 6,241 students enrolled in 2023-24, after a decade in which enrollment fell by 238 students. This is the moderate of three scenarios.
Major projects
The FY2027 budget
Approved March 25, 2026; amended in July 2026A budget round dominated by a county transfer that did not grow. The superintendent proposed, the board held four work sessions and a joint session with the county, the plan was trimmed by about $1.1 million of new positions, and the board voted the same evening as the public hearing on March 25, 2026. Revisions to the amended budget followed in July, and a supplemental appropriation for purchase orders rolled over from FY2026 came back in August.
- 2026-27 budget calendar taken up
- First public input on the FY2026-27 budget
- Superintendent's proposed FY2027 budget presented, with public comment the same evening
- Joint budget work session with the county Board of Supervisors
- Advertised public hearing and approval of the 2026-27 budget
- Board acts on revisions to the amended FY2027 budget
- FY2027 supplemental appropriation for rolled-over FY2026 purchase orders
Funding
State Standards of Quality funding, a transfer from the Prince George County Board of Supervisors, and federal grants
Building feasibility study and the capital improvement plan
Study delivered; capital projects approved and still being re-allocatedMoseley Architects studied the division's buildings and reported to the board in September 2025. The capital improvement plan was rebuilt on that study, county capital budget lines were re-allocated in December, capital projects were approved in February 2026, and FY2025 carryover money was repeatedly discussed as a source for them. L.L. Beazley Elementary School was named separately at the joint session with the county.
- Moseley Architects presents its feasibility study to the board
- Work session on the capital improvement plan based on the study
- County capital improvement plan budget lines re-allocated
- L.L. Beazley Elementary School discussed at the joint session with the county
- Board takes action on capital improvement projects
- FY2025 carryover funds discussed again as a source for capital work
Funding
County capital improvement programme, with FY2025 carryover funds discussed as an additional source
New grading policy and regulations
Policy voted on in June 2026; regulations still being revised in AugustA proposed grading policy was presented in May 2026 and voted on in June. It then came back twice, as proposed regulations in July and revised regulations in August, so the detail of how work is graded was still being settled as the 2026-27 year opened.
- Proposed grading policy presented to the board
- Grading policy listed as an action item
- Proposed grading policy and regulations discussed
- Revised grading policy and regulations discussed
Funding
Not applicable; no cost is published
Choosing a new strategic plan
Consultants heard, plans selected, planning work session heldThe board spent the year deciding who would help it write its next strategic plan. It heard a proposal from the Virginia School Boards Association in January 2026, from Cambridge Strategic Services and the Donovan Group in February, selected and approved strategic plans in April, and held a Virginia School Boards Association strategic planning work session in July 2026. Section-by-section updates against the existing 2022-2027 comprehensive plan continued alongside it.
- Virginia School Boards Association strategic plan proposal discussed
- Cambridge Strategic Services and the Donovan Group present proposals
- Board acts on the selection and approval of strategic plans
- Strategic planning work session with the Virginia School Boards Association
Funding
Operating budget
Recent news
Built from two official sources. The first is the Prince George County School Board's own meeting index, an XML feed the board publishes covering every meeting it has posted since 2021; its trailing-year slice, September 2025 to September 2026, contains 33 meetings and 675 agenda items with their categories, titles and action types. The second is 20 documents from the division's own published listings on pgs.k12.va.us: four dated versions of the superintendent's FY2027 budget presentation, the FY2027 budget calendar and amended line-item detail, the FY2026 adopted budget in two forms with its calendar and appropriation request, the FY2026 superintendent's budget booklet and presentation, FY2027 salary scales, per-pupil expenditure comparisons, a ten-year enrollment projection, the 2026-2027 code of conduct, the 2022-2027 comprehensive plan, the division literacy plan, the organizational chart and the memorandum of understanding with the county police department. The appropriation request and the police memorandum are scanned documents and were read from their page images.
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