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VHSL sets FB divisions for next 2 years

BY LYNN BURKE|lburke@dailypress.com

Woodside, Maury, York and Middlesex will each move up a division for the next two years under the Virginia High School League’s revised football division setup.

Woodside will be a Division 6 school in the Group AAA playoffs, York moves from Division 3 to Division 4 in Group AA and Middlesex shifts from Division 1 to Division 2 in Group A.

Football playoffs split each region in half with the schools with the most enrollment competing in the even-numbered divisions and the schools with the smallest enrollments in the odd-numbered divisions.

In the Eastern Region, Woodside and Maury of Norfolk moved to Division 6, while Princess Anne of Virginia Beach, and both Great Bridge and Deep Creek of Chesapeake moved down to Division 5. Both of those schools will lose enrollment when Grassfield opens in the fall. The new school also will be in Division 5,

In Group AA, the only change to an existing school moves York from Division 3 to Division 4. Warhill, the new high school in James City County, will be Division 3. Both Lafayette and Jamestown, which will both lose enrollment when Warhill opens, will remain in Division 4.

In Group A, Nandua becomes a Division 2 school. Nandua is dropping from Group AA to Group A in the fall and will be the largest school in Region A. Also, Middlesex moves up from Division 1.


Numbers from the Virginia High School League


DIVISION 6
Ocean Lakes 2536
Landstown 2325
Smith, Oscar 2263
Western Branch 2242
Granby 2187
First Colonial 2156
Hickory -- projected 2107
Kellam, Floyd 2095
Cox, Frank 2069
Bayside 2057
Kempsville 2038
Menchville 2027
Woodside 2024
Tallwood 2021
Bethel 1969
Maury 1959
Salem (VB) 1940
Gloucester 1936

DIVISION 5
Kecoughtan 1902
Princess Anne 1902
Warwick 1887
Great Bridge -- projected 1844
Norview 1806
Green Run 1801
Indian River 1795
Denbigh 1717
Churchland 1710
Heritage (NN) 1705
Grassfield -- projected 1610
Hampton 1602
King's Fork 1480
Lake Taylor 1468
Norcom, I.C. 1432
Deep Creek -- projected 1422
Phoebus 1382
Washington, B.T. 1319
Lakeland 1275
Wilson, Woodrow 1252
Nansemond River 1231

DIVISION 4
Chancellor 1347
Powhatan 1304
Grafton 1297
Lafayette -- projected 1292
Tabb 1272
Courtland 1271
Spotsylvania 1220
Caroline 1193
Smithfield 1171
Jamestown -- projected 1170
King George 1151
York 1008

DIVISION 3
Southampton 928
Poquoson 914
Warhill -- projected 859
Prince Edward Co. 857
New Kent 851
Monroe, James 798
Greensville County 782
Bruton 739
Park View (SH) 728
Bluestone Senior 722
Nottoway 713
Brunswick 604

DIVISION 2
Nandua 717
Arcadia 694
King William 632
Washington & Lee 585
Essex 544
Northampton 543
Windsor 514
Lancaster 494
Middlesex 468

DIVISION 1
Northumberland 467
Sussex Central 464
Mathews 459
Franklin 421
Rappahannock 384
Surry County 295
West Point 256
Charles City 248
King & Queen 213
Colonial Beach 185