Fall Registration is now open, however, availability is going to be limited so please be patient. Reach out to Mr. Bailey to check availability before registering and paying. There is only one instructor going right after school. I will have another instructor starting in the evening if you are able to go home and come back. Because of the limited availability, I will schedule students who are eligible for their license now or in the upcoming months and go from there.
Behind-the-wheel (BTW), in-car instruction is offered as an after-school and summer program at each Prince William County Public High School. The course costs $240 and consists of 14 lessons typically taught in 7 sessions. Half the time is devoted to driving and the other half to observation. The course starts with two days of range driving followed by five days of driving in residential, open, and interstate roadways. The seventh day of instruction also includes the student's road test.
Your teen may begin BTW once classroom driver education is completed or if your teen is currently completing the classroom driver education course at a PWCS high school. The student must have a valid Virginia learner's permit to sign up for Behind the Wheel. Virginia state law also requires driver's seeking their license to have 45 recorded hours of experience with a parent/guardian, 15 being at night. Our recommendation is student's have as close to the required 45 hours as possible before completing our Behind the Wheel program. As instructors we see more successful outcomes when students have more hours of practice outside our program.
Each school sets its own schedule for BTW instruction. After you register, contact your school's driver education coordinator listed below for available class times and for the next step in the scheduling process.
Pay online at https://www.studentquickpay.com/pwcs/" https://www.studentquickpay.com/pwcs/ or submit a check or money order to your school's driver education coordinator. Checks should be made out to Prince William County Public Schools. Write your teen's name in the memo field of your check.
Once payment has been submitted, a copy of the receipt must be sent to Mr. Bailey at [email protected]
JUVENILE LICENSING PROCESS
The student must:
Hold a Virginia learner's permit for 9 months.
Successfully complete 36 periods of classroom driver education (or currently enrolled in classroom driver education).
Attend your school's parent/teen 90-minute meeting.
Complete 14 periods of behind-the-wheel instruction. Visit the DMV website for more information: https://www.dmv.virginia.gov/drivers/#teen.asp
