These VA School Districts Have The Best Teachers: New Report

VIRGINIA — The teachers in the West Point Public Schools have been ranked as the best in Virginia in Niche’s 2025 Best Schools and Districts rankings compiled this week.

Niche provides profiles, reviews, ratings, and personalized recommendations for K-12 schools, colleges, universities, cities, and towns. The website ranked more than 11,000 school districts nationwide.

The rankings were based on student and parent ratings of teachers, teacher salaries, teacher absenteeism, teacher tenure, student-teacher ratio, and the Niche Academics Grade for the district. Read more on how this ranking was calculated.

West Point Public Schools has 840 students in grades PK, K-12 with a student-teacher ratio of 16 to 1. According to state test scores, 63 percent of students are at least proficient in math and 80 percent in reading.

In addition to earning an A- letter grade overall for its teachers and academics, West Point schools also received an A+ for its teachers, and a B+ for academics, along with college prep.

A district's grade for academics was weighted most highly among all the factors in consideration for the teachers score. More information on how Niche calculated their ratings can be found here.

Here are the top school districts for teachers in Virginia and their overall teachers grades:

1. West Point Public Schools, A+
2. York County School Division, A+
3. Norton City Public Schools, A
4. Louisa County Public Schools, A
5. Falls Church City Public Schools, A
6. Arlington Public Schools, A
7. Williamsburg-James City County Public Schools, A
8. Montgomery County Public Schools, A
9. Bristol City Public Schools, A
10. Charlotte County Public Schools, A
11. Patrick County Public Schools, A
12. Wise County Public Schools, A-
13. Virginia Beach City Public Schools, A-
14. Albemarle County Public Schools, A-
15. Highland County Public Schools, A-
16. Wythe County Public Schools, A-
17. Roanoke County Public Schools, A-
18. Northumberland County Public Schools, A-
19. Franklin County Public Schools, A-
20. Fairfax County Public Schools, A-

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The best teachers in America in 2025 are working in the Mariemont City Schools, in Cincinnati, OH, according to Niche. Rye City School teachers, in New York's nearby Westchester County, came in second.

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