🌟 Congratulations to Isabelle Robey on earning 4th place in the Small Engine Repair competition at the Northern Area FFA Conference! 🚜🔧 This was Isabelle’s very first time competing, and she represented us with incredible skill and determination 👏 A special thank you goes to Mr. Chris King, who serves as our Assistant Supervisor/Mechanic for RCPS Transportation and teaches Small Engine Repair and Technology at RCHS, for his outstanding coaching and for inspiring students to discover their passions.

As Isabelle shared: “I think motors is probably my passion in FFA, and without him (Chris King) I wouldn’t have found that out.” 💙💛

We are so proud of you, Isabelle! 🌟

Rappahannock County FFA wrapped up the 99th Virginia FFA Convention with major honors and proud hearts!!

Here’s what we brought home:

✅100% Membership

🏅Gold Rated Public Relations

⭐Superior Chapter

🥈Silver Rated National Chapter Award

🥈Silver Scrapbook Award

🥈Emma Arnold placed 2nd in the Agriculture Education CDE!

The Veterinary Science team placed top 10 in the state, with Emma Arnold placing 4th highest individual!!

The Hipplogy team placed top 10 in the state!

We’re so proud of our chapter and everything we’ve achieved! The future’s looking bright!

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Rappahannock County High School student earned drones license at Laurel Ridge ‣ Laurel Ridge Community College2025 Rappahannock County High School graduate Will Vandrey earned his drones license, and dozens of college credits at Laurel Ridge Community College through the dual-enrollment program.

Congrats to Our Future Educators

We're excited to announce the latest inductees into our Future Educators Academy (FEA) at RCHS! FEA is a fantastic college partnership lab school designed to help rising juniors who dream of becoming elementary and special education teachers. After completing their two-year associate degree at Germanna Community College, our FEA students can seamlessly transfer to one of our partner institutions. This means they can earn their bachelor’s degree and teaching license just two years after graduating from high school—what an amazing journey ahead! Congratulations to these future superheroes!

The Profile of a Graduate team hosted a Career Expo for juniors and seniors on April 24th. Twenty-three businesses participated in this event and offered a variety of jobs and career opportunities for the students. With completed generic job applications in hand, the students visited the various businesses to learn more about local job openings and possible career paths. Students were encouraged to visit all booths to learn about opportunities and engage in networking opportunities. The students who visited at least 20 booths had their names entered in a raffle to win a gift card. Additionally, they had other opportunities to have their name entered into a prize drawing based on their professionalism and asking thoughtful, insightful questions.

Thank you to all the businesses and organizations for making this event a success. This year’s participants included Blue Ridge Job Corps, Dark Horse Irish Pub, Dynalectric, Fauquier County Government & Public Schools, Fauquier County Government, Gray Ghost Vineyards, Holder Construction Company, The Inn at Little Washington, Jellystone Park- Luray, Northern VA 4-H, Off the Grid, Prince William County Department of Fire and Rescue, Rappahannock County Fire and Rescue, Rappahannock County Public Schools, Roman’s Hair Empire & Beauty Academy, Sperryville Volunteer Rescue Squad, US Airforce, Valley Health, VAMAC, Inc., VDOT, Virginia State Police, Walmart-Warrenton, and Yukon’s Treats, LLC.

Photos and write-up by Holly Jenkins

SY 25-26 RCPS CTE Course of Studies*

Course Scheduling

It's that time to look ahead to next school year and start thinking about what CTE elective you might be interested in adding to your schedule requests. In addition to the general program of study, available on the RCHS website, there is a Career and Technical Education catalog of anticipated course offerings.