Flip open those new notebooks, take out a pencil and get ready to learn because Gloucester and Mathews public schools head back to the classroom on Monday. Both district superintendents—Dr. Anthony Vladu of GCPS and Dr. David Daniel of MCPS—spoke on their respective district’s projected enrollment, summer site improvements, new developments, challenges ahead and what they are looking forward to most for the 2026-2027 school year. In Gloucester GCPS is operating its budget on an average daily membership of 4,454 students. However, the anticipated total is expected to rise once the school year begins. “We’re monitoring day to day,” said Vladu. Heading into the school year, GCPS has retained a lot of its teachers from the previous year and has a very small teacher vacancy rate. “We’re extremely competitive with our neighboring localities,” he said. New this year is the district’s use of Tyler Technologies, a software company the Office of Transportation is utilizing for bus routing. Paren...