Congratulations to the Providers Who Made the 2025 VQB5 Honor Roll!

Congratulations to all the childcare and early learning providers who made the 2025 VQB5 Honor Roll! Virginia early childhood programs demonstrated both excellence and improvement in 2024-2025. This year, Virginia launched three VQB5 Honor Rolls to recognize 494 early childhood sites:  

Excellence Honor Roll: These 101 sites earned Exceeds Expectations, the highest possible rating in VQB5. This year, the number of sites that exceed state expectations grew by 28% to 101 sites. Considering Virginia uses a rigorous national tool to measure classroom quality, these sites may be considered national exemplars. These exemplars include child care, family day home, Head Start and school sites and are located in all of Virginia’s nine Ready Regions. 

Infant-Toddler Quality Honor Roll: These 216 sites demonstrated top performance in infant/toddler classrooms (top 10% in the state). 

Improvement Honor Roll: These 294 sites showed significant year-over-year gains in teacher-child interactions (top 10% in the state). 

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Please join us in celebrating the providers who were recognized by the Ready Region Blue Ridge VQB5 Honor Roll: 

VQB5 Excellence Honor Roll 

• Lil’ Bloomers Day Care 

• John Kerr Elementary (Winchester Public Schools) 

• Community Development Institute Head Start – Crozet 

VQB5 Infant-Toddler Quality Honor Roll 

• Little Learners Tricounty Child Development Center 

• Abundant Love Child Development Center (Bumpass)

• Bison Beginning’s Early Learning Center, LLC 

• McShanna Jackson  

• Princess Long 

• Bison Beginnings Early Learning Center – Verona 

• Agape Center for Care, LLC 

• Harrisonburg Rockingham Child Day Care Centers, Inc. 

• Lil’ Bloomers Day Care 

VQB5 Improvement Honor Roll 

• Community Childcare Center (Park Blvd) 

• TLC Daycare Center 

• James Madison University – Young Children’s Program 

• Smart Start Learning Academy 

• Linda Carey 

• Princess Long 

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