In the summer of 2005, due to low SOL (Standards Of Learning) Test scores the Spotsylvania School Board announced that they were going to start a week before Labor Day. While other counties around Spotsylvania started the day after Labor Day. So they can try to improve their SOL test scores. In 2006, they adopted the A Day/B Day calendar schedule. By 2008 Spotsylvania County Public Schools started two weeks before Labor Day. They also started PASS (Parents Access for Students' Success) where students and parents can check on their grades, attendance, Lunch account, and see if they owe any missing work. After a couple years they got out a week earlier than everyone else. In 2010, Spotsylvania Schools changed the 6-point grading scale to a 10-point grading scale. In February 2013, the school board decided to start after Labor Day since SOLs scores better than what they were before the pre-Labor Day start. So for the 2013–14 school year Spotsylvania schools started the day after Labor Day. Like it did before the 2005–06 school year.