Cox High, 2425 Shorehaven Drive: grades 9 to 12, 1,625 students in fall 2025, fully accredited, framework score 98.01. Office: 757-648-5250.
Last checked Oct. 19, 2026. Sources: Cox High, Virginia Beach City Public Schools, the Virginia Department of Education’s School Quality Profile, the federal NCES school directory and the VHSL alignment.
Cox High School serves ninth through 12th grade at 2425 Shorehaven Drive for Virginia Beach City Public Schools (VBCPS). It had 1,625 students in fall 2025, the state’s count shows.
Who to call
- Front office: 757-648-5250
- Registering a new student: the school office handles registration; families can also start online
- Which school is my address zoned for? the School Locator, or the division’s Demographics and Planning Division at 757-263-1055
- Buses: transportation dispatch 757-263-1545; after hours 757-263-2949
- Division main line: 757-263-1000
| Address | 2425 Shorehaven Drive, Virginia Beach, VA 23454 |
| Phone | 757-648-5250 |
| Grades | 9 to 12 |
| Student hours | 7:20 a.m. to 2 p.m. |
| Office hours | 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. |
| Website | coxhs.vbschools.com |
| Division | Virginia Beach City Public Schools |
Principal
Principal Melissa George, according to the school’s website. The administration page also lists Latashia Bates, Joshua Petrice and Marcus Turner as assistant principals.
Enrollment and teachers
- State count: 1,625 students in fall 2025, down from 1,642 in fall 2024 and 1,655 in fall 2023, according to the School Quality Profile. Fall 2025 broke down as 402 in ninth grade, 421 in 10th grade, 376 in 11th grade and 426 in 12th grade.
- Federal count: 1,648 students in the 2023-24 school year, with 101 full-time-equivalent teachers, according to the NCES directory. That works out to about 16 students per teacher.
State report card
Virginia rates schools two ways. Accreditation checks that a school meets the state’s Standards of Accreditation. The School Performance and Support Framework “considers multiple measures of student success, including academic achievement, growth, readiness, and graduation,” the division’s accreditation and performance page says, and gives each school a score and a performance level.
- Accreditation: Fully Accredited. All 81 VBCPS schools earned full accreditation for 2026-27, based on 2025-26 data, the division announced Oct. 7.
- Framework score: 98.01, performance level Meets Expectations, in the state’s division summary.
- On-time graduation: 97%. Of 441 students in the 2025-26 cohort, 427 graduated on time; 279 earned an advanced diploma and 142 a standard diploma, and 10 dropped out.
Standards of Learning pass rates (share of tested students who passed):
| Subject | 2023-24 | 2024-25 | 2025-26 |
|---|---|---|---|
| English reading | 91% | 94% | 94% |
| Writing | 83% | 89% | 89% |
| Math | 89% | 88% | 88% |
| Science | 84% | 87% | 91% |
In 2025-26, 612 students took an Advanced Placement test, 300 took dual enrollment classes and 19 attended a Governor’s School, the profile shows.
The full profile also reports attendance, student groups, teacher data and spending.
Attendance zone and feeder schools
Look up any address in the division’s School Locator; the school’s own 2026-27 zone map (PDF) shows its boundary. Zones do not follow neighborhood or ZIP code lines, so check the address, not the area.
Feeder schools: on the division’s 2026-27 zone maps, the Cox High zone overlaps all or part of the zones of Great Neck Middle, Lynnhaven Middle and Virginia Beach Middle. Middle school and high school zones do not match exactly, so classmates from one middle school can split between high schools.
Families who want a different school can file an out-of-zone request.
Calendar and bell times
From the division’s 2026-27 calendar (PDF):
- Monday and Tuesday, Nov. 2-3: no school for students (staff days; Nov. 3 is Election Day)
- Wednesday, Nov. 11: Veterans Day, schools closed
- Wednesday to Friday, Nov. 25-27: Thanksgiving break
- Dec. 21 to Jan. 1: winter break
- March 29 to April 2, 2027: spring break
- Friday, June 11, 2027: last day for students
Students attend from 7:20 a.m. to 2 p.m. and the office is open 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., according to the division’s school hours page, which sets the same hours for all high schools.
Closings and delays are posted on the division’s weather page.
Sports and activities
Cox High plays in Class 5, Region A, Beach District, according to the VHSL alignment, which lists it as Frank W. Cox. The Beach District’s other schools are Bayside, First Colonial, Kellam, Green Run, Kempsville, Landstown, Ocean Lakes, Princess Anne, Salem and Tallwood.
The school’s athletics page lists teams in competition and sideline cheer, cross country, field hockey, football, golf and boys and girls volleyball in the fall; basketball, gymnastics, indoor track, swimming and wrestling in the winter; and baseball, boys and girls lacrosse, soccer, softball, tennis and track and field in the spring. Club sports are the Coquettes, sailing, crew and water polo, and VHSL activities include debate, esports, one-act plays, robotics, scholastic bowl and speech.
Follow the season on our Friday night football page and the high school scoreboard.
More on Virginia Beach schools
- The school’s website and its state School Quality Profile
- Every public school in Virginia Beach
- Our Virginia Beach schools guide for registration documents and School Board meetings
- Our neighborhoods guide
Frequently asked questions
What grades does Cox High serve?
Ninth through 12th grade. It is part of Virginia Beach City Public Schools.
How is Cox High rated by the state?
It is fully accredited for 2026-27. On Virginia’s School Performance and Support Framework it scored 98.01 and is rated Meets Expectations, according to the state’s School Quality Profiles.
What time does Cox High start?
Students attend from 7:20 a.m. to 2 p.m., according to the division’s school hours page.
What is Cox High’s graduation rate?
97%. Of 441 students in the 2025-26 cohort, 427 graduated on time, according to the state’s School Quality Profile.
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