Essex County Public Schools
Pathways to Excellence
ECPS September Attendance Awareness Month Reminder for JCIS & EHS
September Attendance Awareness Month Reminder
Looking to support a mission and a movement! Join us by purchasing a yard sign or swag gear to show your support for the kids in Essex who are doing great things! Proceeds go to student field trips and/or incentives! Wear your swag gear at EHS homecoming on October 16! 🙌🏼🎉
You belong! You are loved!💛💜
Thank you, ECPS Grandparents!💜💛
Thank you, ECPS Grandparents! 💜💛
ECPS Weekend Reflection: We love our students!
Each student belongs in ECPS...is important to each day's success...and is missed when absent!💜🎉💛
A special thanks goes out to all ECPS staff, students, and families...and our Essex County Sheriff's Dept , Police Dept, EMS Dept, and VA State Police for ensuring the safety of our students and staff today in light of school threats. Today was truly an example of being "All In for Essex!" We are blessed to have such collaboration! 💜💛
Early Dismissal Today at 10:30 am 9/11/2026
All after-school activities have been canceled.
Greetings ECPS Families, Students, and Staff;
In light of recent threats today to our schools, ECPS will be dismissing at 10:30 am today. We are being advised by our local and state authorities to err on the side of caution, and safety is our number one priority.
If parents can be ready to receive students at home and avoid the congestion at schools, that would be greatly appreciated so that we can move buses out as soon as possible. They will dismiss in their usual fashion (first, second, and third wave). Staff will be on standby until we are sure that students have reached home. We apologize for any inconvenience, but we know that all parents want kids safe.
We will be in touch with families throughout the day until our students reach home and/of have been picked up. Thanks for your cooperation and teamwork to ensure the safety of our students and staff.
ECPS recognizes September as Suicide Prevention Month. Please know the signs. It might save a life. 🙏🏽💜💛
Essex County Public Schools family and friends, be a part of the #AllInForEssex movement and shop our swag store that launches today!!🎉🎉🎉 Let’s get geared up to show purple and gold throughout the town, at every game/event…but more importantly…to show support of all ECPS students!!! We love our students and believe in them!!💜💛💜💛 Check out our swag store to purchase your yard signs and place them throughout the community, at home, at church, in front of local businesses…or place the pennants on store fronts and doors of businesses, etc! Alumni…when you purchase an item…proceeds go towards your class donation to compete in the “ECPS Student and Staff Incentive Fund” competition to earn bragging rights at homecoming and on social media! It’s a MOVEMENT! We are ALL IN FOR ESSEX!! Let’s go!!💜🎉💛
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Essex County Public Schools family and friends, be a part of the #AllInForEssex movement and shop our swag store that launches today!!🎉🎉🎉 Let’s get geared up to show purple and gold throughout the town, at every game/event…but more importantly…to show support of all ECPS students!!! We love our students and believe in them!!💜💛💜💛 Check out our swag store to purchase your yard signs and place them throughout the community, at home, at church, in front of local businesses…or place the pennants on store fronts and doors of businesses, etc! Alumni…when you purchase an item…proceeds go towards your class donation to compete in the “ECPS Student and Staff Incentive Fund” competition to earn bragging rights at homecoming and on social media! It’s a MOVEMENT! We are ALL IN FOR ESSEX!! Let’s go!!💜🎉💛
Join the ALL IN FOR ESSEX MOVEMENT to root students on to higher achievement, daily attendance, and higher levels of leadership! Display yard signs, Essex flags, or something purple and gold at your business, organization, church, or home! Our students need to see your sign of support! It makes a difference! Let's go!💜🎉💛
The EHS Drones Class/Team would like to invite you to its annual "Drone Family Night and Naming Ceremony" on Thursday, September 17th at 6:30 PM in the EHS Library. You'll get to meet with EHS Families and watch the students:
- Get their Recreational License
- Get their "Wings Pinned On"
- Receive their "Call Sign"
- and demonstrate some "light flying activities".
- Get their Recreational License
- Get their "Wings Pinned On"
- Receive their "Call Sign"
- and demonstrate some "light flying activities".
Due to the ongoing water main break issue from yesterday, leaving Tappahannock Elementary School, the School Board Office, and the surrounding residential area without water, Essex County Public Schools will be closed today. Lunch will be available for pickup at James Cary Intermediate School at noon today on a first-come first-serve basis. All 12-month employees may telework or use liberal leave today. We will provide an update as soon as water service has been restored.
What a great PD led by Eric Rhodes with CTLG!!! Our science scores about to go through the roof at JCIS!!! Let's go!! I enjoyed being a part of the PD with the team!!💜💛.
ECPS welcomed Governor Abigail Spanberger and the Secretary of Education at JCIS today!! They both took time to greet staff, spend quality time in a Q&A with a group of teachers, and enjoyed time answering questions and talking to students in numerous classrooms! The cheerleaders and SCA officers were highlights of this visit, and it was led by Principal Dr. Dana Hawes and Interim Superintendent Mrs. Pam Bell! Local news media and members of the local sheriff's department and police were inspired to support this effort. What a memorable day for JCIS students and for ECPS!
Interim Superintendent, Mrs. Pam Bell, facilitated and launched the “All In for Essex” collaboration with Essex County Public Schools and the Essex Rotary on Thursday, August 13th. The collaboration involves supporting ECPS students through college/career awareness events, increasing community pride/connection/visibility of ECPS in local businesses, recognizing and incentivizing students/staff, and more!! With all three ECPS principals present, at least one new initiative was launched at each school through the Rotary’s commitment! 🎉
The Essex County School Board will be holding a Special Called meeting on Friday, August 14, 2026, at 7:00 p.m.. in the Essex County School Board Office Complex.
We love our children in ECPS!!!! Team members were at Walmart to "Fill the Bus" to support our students!! Such a fun group and such a caring community!! Thanks Primus Bank for partnering with Essex County Public Schools!!
