• Academic transcript
• Name and address of student
• Birth date and number
• Student I.D. number
• Name and address of parent or guardian
• Image
• Record of attendance
• Schools attended
• Scholastic work completed
• Grades and grade point average
• Class rank
• Type of diploma earned
• Test data, to include results of Virginia State Assessment Program
• School entrance physical examination report, immunization ¬certificate or verification of immunizations
• Notice of school status as condition of admission (a sworn statement or affirmation indicating whether the student has been previously expelled from school attendance)
• Record data disclosure form
• Student termination (graduation/withdrawal)
• Legal documents pertaining to the student

See “Special Education Records” to see what’s contained in those files. See “Directory Information” to see what information can be publicly released without notification for uses such as sports rosters or to celebrate a student’s accomplishments in the media, etc.

Special Education Records include:

• Records of referral
• Reports of assessment, including educational, physiological (medical, speech, hearing, vision), psychological, sociological
• Permission for initial testing
• Permission for initial placement
• Summary of eligibility minutes
• Individualized education program (IEPs)

While student records are confidential, each school division has the right to designate some information as Directory Information, and this information may be distributed as needed without parental consent. Examples of the use of this information could be athletic rosters, agendas or programs for school events, yearbook and newspapers. A parent/guardian may request in writing that the Directory Information not be released for any purpose.  For more information, contact the Community Relations Liaison at 245-2962.

Charlottesville City Schools has designated the following information as Directory Information, which may be shared without written notice from the parent/guardian:

• Student’s name
• Participation in officially recognized activities and sports
• Address (released in FOIA requests only with further permission)
• Telephone listing (released in FOIA requests only with further permission)
• Weight and height of members of athletic teams
• Electronic mail address (released in FOIA requests only with further permission)
• Photograph (also see “Use of Student Information for Promotional Purposes,” below)
• Degrees, honors, and awards received
• Major field of study
• Dates of attendance
• Grade level
• The most recent educational agency or institution attended

School Family Directories

In the annual registration or re-registration forms, families are asked if they want to be listed in directories compiled and distributed by their school’s Parent Teacher Organization. For questions, please contact your school.

At Charlottesville City Schools, we celebrate our students’ activities and accomplishments in our own publications and in the media. In the annual registration or re-registration forms, parents/guardians can set limits on how we use your child’s image or other information. Per federal law, unless parents opt out, the schools can release so-called “directory information” (see above) or exemplary school work in public communications to celebrate students’ accomplishments.

Details about Using Your Child’s Photo, Video, or Art and Schoolwork:

• For photos and videos in publications, social media, or the media, students’ names will not be included unless the parent gives further permission or unless the student is being recognized for an award or accomplishment. (Yearbook permission is given separately.)
• When exemplary art or schoolwork is posted online, elementary students will be identified by first name, grade, and school. In all other cases, full names will be used with grade and school. If you have questions about the use of your child’s image or schoolwork, please contact the Community Relations Liaison at 434-245-2962.

• Release of data from student records is made in accordance with Regulation JO of the Charlottesville City Schools and in accordance with Guidelines for Management of the Student’s Scholastic Record in Virginia Public Schools.
• Charlottesville High School will comply with the federal statute about releasing names, addresses and telephone numbers of secondary students to all military recruiters or institutions of higher education that request them unless the parent/guardian specifically requests that this information not be released. Parents/guardians of high school students give or withhold this permission in the annual registration or re-registration forms.

• All educational records are maintained confidentially. They are filed in a central location accessible to professional personnel within the school and/or personnel with division-wide responsibilities who have a legitimate educational interest in the student. All educational records are located in the office of the school the student currently attends. The Superintendent or designee is responsible for the collection of data, record maintenance and security, and disclosure of information from the records of students who attend school.

• Charlottesville City Schools retains student records according to requirements from the Virginia State Library “Retention Schedule for Public School Records.” According to the retention schedule, various records are maintained for differing amounts of time. General scholastic records are maintained for 75 years in the last school the student attended as a CCS student. This also applies to the non-special education portion of the record for a student with disabilities.
• For students with disabilities, the special education portion of the record, with the exception of any alternate or alternative assessments from the Virginia Assessment Program, is maintained for five years after the student graduates, completes a Virginia Board of Education approved program, transfers, is found no longer eligible for special education, or withdraws from a CCS school. At that time, the record will be purged in accordance with Library of Virginia requirements.
• The assessment collections, which may include the Virginia Grade Level Alternative (VGLA), Virginia Alternate Assessment Program (VAAP), or Virginia Educational Substitute Program (VSEP), will be purged after one year and the scores are maintained as a part of the general scholastic record.