Albemarle County School District

School Board
Our Division
Our Mission

Working together as a team, we will end the predictive value of race, class, gender, and special capacities for our children’s success through high quality teaching and learning for all. We seek to build relationships with families and communities to ensure that every student succeeds. We will know every student.
Our Schools
Our Mission

Working together as a team, we will end the predictive value of race, class, gender, and special capacities for our children’s success through high quality teaching and learning for all. We seek to build relationships with families and communities to ensure that every student succeeds. We will know every student.
Our Departments
Our Mission

Working together as a team, we will end the predictive value of race, class, gender, and special capacities for our children’s success through high quality teaching and learning for all. We seek to build relationships with families and communities to ensure that every student succeeds. We will know every student.
For Families
Our Mission

Working together as a team, we will end the predictive value of race, class, gender, and special capacities for our children’s success through high quality teaching and learning for all. We seek to build relationships with families and communities to ensure that every student succeeds. We will know every student.
For Students
Our Mission

Working together as a team, we will end the predictive value of race, class, gender, and special capacities for our children’s success through high quality teaching and learning for all. We seek to build relationships with families and communities to ensure that every student succeeds. We will know every student.
For Community
Our Mission

Working together as a team, we will end the predictive value of race, class, gender, and special capacities for our children’s success through high quality teaching and learning for all. We seek to build relationships with families and communities to ensure that every student succeeds. We will know every student.
For Staff
Our Mission

Working together as a team, we will end the predictive value of race, class, gender, and special capacities for our children’s success through high quality teaching and learning for all. We seek to build relationships with families and communities to ensure that every student succeeds. We will know every student.
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School Naming Review: Murray High School

Murray High School

At its meeting on April 1, 2021, the Albemarle County School Board formally approved a new name for the charter school: Community Lab School, effective July 1, 2020. The board’s action supported the recommendations of the advisory committee, the superintendent, and members of the school community.

Advisory Committee

Stephanie Passman | Head Teacher & Committee Facilitator
Chad Ratliff | Principal
Lucy Akers Allen | School Staff
Josh Flaherty | School Staff
Julie Stavitski | School Staff
Alhena Cleveland | Parent
Daphne Latham | Parent
Brian Veerhoff | Parent
Shelley Blakey | Feeder School Parent
Megan Kopley | Feeder School Parent
Gwen Cox | Student
Seth Raffinan | Student
Chloe Root | Student
Shereen el Mallah | Community Member
Freddy Jackson | Community Member

News

April 2, 2021

School Board Approves Recommendations of Community Advisory Committees & Superintendent on Names of Charter, Murray Elementary Schools; Jouett Next School to Have Name Reviewed

March 19, 2021

Community Advisory Committee Recommends Community Lab School as New Name for Charter School

February 16, 2021

List of Names Topping Survey for New Charter School Has a Common Theme: Community; Public Meeting Next Monday to Help Narrow the List to Three Finalists

December 18, 2020

Charter School’s Community Advisory Committee Recommends 10 Possible School Names for Public Survey Next Month

October 9, 2020

Virginia Lee Murray Elementary Is the Next School to Have Its Name Reviewed by a Local Community Advisory Committee

July 8, 2020

Charter School Advisory Committee Asks to Put its Name Recommendation on Hold; Will Conduct More Research and Community Outreach, Sees Learning Role for Students

July 1, 2020

Charter School Community Advisory Committee Will Meet Next Week to Discuss Its Recommendation of a New School Name

June 29, 2020

Community Advisory Committee Recommends Name for New Charter School: Rose Hill Community School

June 15, 2020

Charter School Community Advisory Committee Narrows List of School Names Under Consideration to Ten

May 29, 2020

More Than 100 Names Suggested for New Charter School; Zoom Public Meeting to Review Names on June 8

May 15, 2020

Community Asked for Their Views on the Selection of a New Name for the Division’s Charter School; Opinion Survey Open Until May 28

May 13, 2020

For the First Time in Nearly 20 Years, a New School in Albemarle County Will Be Named as Charter School Advisory Committee Begins Its Community Outreach

April 27, 2020

School Naming Reviews Moving Forward with Virtual Meetings; Advisory Committee Members Sought for Recommending New Charter School Name; Sutherland Advisory Committee Also Resumes This Week

February 14, 2020

Relatively Rare in Virginia: One School, Grades 6-12, Proposed to the School Board for the Division’s Two Charter Schools

Survey Results