York County reports record family-engagement participation; lists summer events and outreach tactics
June 08, 2026 | YORK CO PBLC SCHS, School Districts, Virginia
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Dr. Brian Fes, associate director of student services for elementary, briefed the board June 8 on family-engagement activity for the school year and previewed summer offerings.
Fes said the division recorded 116 family-engagement events with estimated attendance exceeding 28,000, up about 36 events and roughly 10,000 attendees compared with the prior year. "We are up and have held 36 more family engagement events this year than we did last year," he said, and credited school teams, principals and teachers for organizing focused, purposeful events that invited targeted audiences.
Fes described the division's family-engagement framework and six purposes for events, emphasizing events that empower families to support student learning. He previewed summer activities including the Bite of Reality financial simulation (Brutin High and Grafton Middle), a STEM night in partnership with NASA, a Mariners Museum offsite STEM event that includes ecosystem education and buoyancy experiments, and a closing Bingo for Books program.
Board members asked which outreach tactics drove attendance. Fes said the division does not formally track invitation method data but that personal outreach'phone calls from case managers or teachers'and targeted invitations were the most effective approaches to bring families to events.
Staff made related dashboards and executive summaries available to the board for school-level analysis. No formal actions were taken; the presentation concluded with praise for school staff and an invitation for families to attend posted summer events.
Fes said the division recorded 116 family-engagement events with estimated attendance exceeding 28,000, up about 36 events and roughly 10,000 attendees compared with the prior year. "We are up and have held 36 more family engagement events this year than we did last year," he said, and credited school teams, principals and teachers for organizing focused, purposeful events that invited targeted audiences.
Fes described the division's family-engagement framework and six purposes for events, emphasizing events that empower families to support student learning. He previewed summer activities including the Bite of Reality financial simulation (Brutin High and Grafton Middle), a STEM night in partnership with NASA, a Mariners Museum offsite STEM event that includes ecosystem education and buoyancy experiments, and a closing Bingo for Books program.
Board members asked which outreach tactics drove attendance. Fes said the division does not formally track invitation method data but that personal outreach'phone calls from case managers or teachers'and targeted invitations were the most effective approaches to bring families to events.
Staff made related dashboards and executive summaries available to the board for school-level analysis. No formal actions were taken; the presentation concluded with praise for school staff and an invitation for families to attend posted summer events.
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