RICHMOND -- The Virginia Board of Education on Tuesday awarded full accreditation to Roanoke's William Fleming High School.

The school's status has been in limbo since a June state Department of Education investigation uncovered testing irregularities. The Roanoke School Board last week fired Susan Willis, the school's principal who had been on leave since June when she was implicated in the state report.

Willis and four other administrators were responsible for changing schedules to keep students from taking state-mandated Standards of Learning tests, according to the report.

Shelley Loving-Ryder of the Virginia Department of Education on Tuesday presented two versions of calculated accreditation ratings. One was the actual model used, which does not reflect students who are not tested. A second set of data included the 38 students who did not take the required end-of-year tests and counted them as failing scores.

With the recalculation, Fleming still met the 70 percent passing benchmark, Loving-Ryder said.

Patricia Wright, the state superintendent of public instruction, said she believed the city school system has made good-faith efforts to implement an appropriate corrective action plan.

"Unfortunately there were a number [of students] that were not identified in time to take their test," Wright said.

That is why the board of education decided the matter. A unanimous vote by the nine-member board granted Fleming full accreditation.

"I am delighted that the school is fully accredited," said Rita Bishop, superintendent of Roanoke's public schools. "That only leaves us one, you know." Westside Elementary School is accredited with warning, but school officials say continued efforts are under way to have the school become fully accredited.

"Until the last kid [from Fleming] who has issues around this is taken care of, I will not be content," Bishop said.

Bishop and city school board Chairman David Carson both attended the board of education's meeting on Tuesday, as did Willis, who spoke during the public comment session.

Willis urged the board to reinstate Fleming's status to full accreditation because the graduation rate had improved and the students had worked hard to show progress.

She repeated her previously made allegation that the state report was flawed.

"I am not here to discuss my wrongful termination," Willis told the board. "That will be determined in higher courts of law."

After the meeting, Willis said she has not decided whether she will file a lawsuit. She said she intends to release the full report from the three-person fact-finding panel that heard her grievance -- but not immediately.

"I will release the report, because all it does is exonerate me," Willis said. "But I can't release it until I have exhausted all legal avenues."