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Prince William County Public Schools (PWCS) is a school division in Virginia with its headquarters in the Kelly Leadership Center located in the unincorporated community of Independent Hill in Prince William County, Virginia. [1] As of the 2020 census, the population of the county was 486,943. [7]
A pay grade is a unit in systems of monetary compensation for employment. It is commonly used in public service, both civil and military , but also for companies of the private sector. Pay grades facilitate the employment process by providing a fixed framework of salary ranges, as opposed to a free negotiation.
As an example (and not including locality adjustments), an employee at GS-12 Step 10 (base salary $98,422) being promoted to a GS-13 position would initially have his/her salary set at GS-13 Step 4 (base salary $99,028, as it is the nearest salary to GS-12 Step 10 but not lower than it), and then have his/her salary adjusted to a higher step ...
Woodbridge High School is one of the two high schools in Prince William County to host the AP Scholars Program (the other school is Patriot High School). Launched at the school in 2017, the program is aligned with Advanced Placement Program from The College Board. Students in the program are responsible for completing a research project during ...
Forest Park, which was opened in 2000, is the home of the first information technology (iT) specialty program in Prince William County. In 2008 Newsweek magazine ranked Forest Park on its annual list of "America's Top Public High Schools" [4] As of 2025, there are 2,308 students attending Forest Park High School.
In 2017, the Prince William County Public Schools (PWCS) Board was considering renaming the school as part of a shift away from naming schools after Confederate leaders. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] In 2020, the PWCS Superintendent released an open letter saying, "We can no longer represent the Confederacy in our schools".
The name Gar-Field is derived from two prominent local families, the Garbers and the Manderfields. According to Prince William County Circuit Court records, the Garbers and Manderfields donated approximately 20 acres of land for the original school near Neabsco Creek that had once been part of “Round Top Farm”, just off of U.S. Highway #1.
The first Superintendent of Schools in King William County was Mr. R.L. Williams, who was appointed to the post in September 1870 by Governor Gilbert Carlton Walker.The present King William High School building was erected in 1925.