Albemarle County Public Schools began implementing a new grading policy for the 2021-2022 school year with an overall goal of promoting equity county-wide. New principal Jennifer Sublette says this change has been in the works for some time. “Dating back to 2019, as a division, across the school...

Looking for a fun new book to read but don't know what you want? Here's a sneak peak at new books being added to the library. New Fiction: Darius the Great Deserves Better by Adib Khorram            Darius Kellner is having a bit of a year. Since his trip to Iran this past spring, a lot has...

Among the new faces at Western, Assistant Principal H. Hackney is one that students will be seeing often. A Chapel Hill native, Hackney has been in and around schools for most of his life. Following jobs in Richmond, Essex, and Prince William Counties, Hackney sought out a permanent community to settle...

For Jennifer Sublette, Western Albemarle High School is familiar.  Sublette, a 1988 graduate of WAHS, and an alum of American University, is the newest of a long string of principals at Western Albemarle, a string that has been beaded with short tenures and early escapes.  Notably, Sublette is the...

Our new assistant principal Doug Granger, a long-time Crozet resident, has now worked at all levels of administration in Albemarle County Public Schools. At Western, Granger supervises the Fine Arts and World Language departments, works with students with last names A-G,  and is in charge of parking,...