The FCPS Internet site is an important means of communicating with interested citizens, parents, families planning a move to the area, potential employees, and the national and international educational communities. It is also a means of communicating with teachers and other staff members, although the growing FCPSnet intranet system is the primary means of such communication. All public information is appropriate for the Internet. The underlying structure of the FCPS Internet site is by department and school. Each school and department designates one curator who places files on the server.
Information is held in folders named for the office or school.
The public interface, however, presents information in a manner intended to maximize ease of use for external audiences. Information is grouped by topic and related topics. Topics are listed using the word or words most commonly used by members of the public, which may not coincide with official FCPS nomenclature. Topics are grouped by their relationship to one another rather than by the departments that are administratively responsible for the information. Information is presented in layers, with the highest layers dedicated to the information most commonly sought by site visitors.