Elementary and secondary schools

Richmond City Public Schools Richmond Public Schools is a public school district located in the independent city of Richmond, Virginia. It is occasionally described locally as Richmond City Public Schools to emphasize its connection to the independent city rather than the ...

, the city's public school system, comprises 5 high schools, 9 middle schools, 28 elementary schools, and 9 special-purpose/preschools. In 2011, Mayor Dwight C. Jones announced the replacement of Broad Rock Elementary, Oak Grove Elementary, and Huguenot High schools in the South Richmond district, along with the replacement of Martin Luther King Jr. Middle in the East End district. The elementary school replacements have broken ground, while Huguenot remains to be replaced. The elementary schools are ranked highly among urban area school districts, while the middle and high schools are a bit rougher. In a 2009

Richmond Times-Dispatch The ''Richmond Times-Dispatch'' (''RTD'' or ''TD'' for short) is the primary daily newspaper in Richmond, Virginia, Richmond, the capital of Virginia, and the primary newspaper of record for the state of Virginia. Circulation The ''Times-Dispatc ...

article, titled "Dropping In", it was declared that the high school dropout rate was "hovering" at around 15 percent, a number that the city is now working to improve on.

Elementary schools

* Bellevue Elementary School * Blackwell Elementary School * Broad Rock Elementary School * George Washington Carver Elementary School * John B. Cary Elementary School * Chimborazo Elementary School * Clark Springs Elementary School *

Fairfield Court Elementary School Fairfield may refer to: Places Australia * Fairfield, New South Wales, a western suburb of Sydney. **Electoral district of Fairfield, the corresponding seat in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly * Fairfield, Queensland * Fairfield, Victoria ...

* J. B. Fisher Elementary School * William Fox Elementary School * J. L. Francis Elementary School * Ginter Park Elementary School * E. S. H. Greene Elementary School * Linwood Holton Elementary School * Miles J. Jones Elementary School * George Mason Elementary School * Maymont Elementary School *

Mary Munford Elementary School Richmond Public Schools is a public school district located in the independent city of Richmond, Virginia. It is occasionally described locally as Richmond City Public Schools to emphasize its connection to the independent city rather than the ...

* Oak Grove Elementary School * Overby-Sheppard Elementary School * E. D. Redd Elementary School *

G. H. Reid Elementary School Richmond Public Schools is a public school district located in the independent city of Richmond, Virginia. It is occasionally described locally as Richmond City Public Schools to emphasize its connection to the independent city rather than the ...

* Southampton Elementary School * J. E. B. Stuart Elementary School *

Summer Hill Elementary School Summer is the hottest of the four temperate seasons, occurring after spring and before autumn. At or centred on the summer solstice, the earliest sunrise and latest sunset occurs, daylight hours are longest and dark hours are shortest, wit ...

Swansboro Elementary School Richmond Public Schools is a public school district located in the independent city of Richmond, Virginia. It is occasionally described locally as Richmond City Public Schools to emphasize its connection to the independent city rather than the ...

Westover Hills Elementary School Richmond Public Schools is a public school district located in the independent city of Richmond, Virginia. It is occasionally described locally as Richmond City Public Schools to emphasize its connection to the independent city rather than the ...

Woodville Elementary School Woodville may refer to one of the following: Places Australia * Woodville, New South Wales *Woodville, South Australia, a suburb of Adelaide **Woodville railway station, Adelaide Canada *Woodville, Ontario *Woodville, Nova Scotia New Zealand *Woo ...

Middle schools

Binford Middle School Richmond Public Schools is a public school district located in the independent city of Richmond, Virginia. It is occasionally described locally as Richmond City Public Schools to emphasize its connection to the independent city rather than the ...

* Thomas C. Boushall Middle School * Lucille M. Brown Middle School *

Chandler Middle School Chandler or The Chandler may refer to: * Chandler (occupation), originally head of the medieval household office responsible for candles, now a person who makes or sells candles * Ship chandler, a dealer in supplies or equipment for ships Arts ...

* Elkhardt Middle School * Thomas H. Henderson Model Middle School * Albert Hill Middle School * Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School * Fred D. Thompson Middle School

High schools

* Armstrong High School *

Huguenot High School Huguenot High School, part of the Richmond Public Schools system, is a high school located in Richmond, Virginia, United States, with grades 9–12. Huguenot High School was named in honor of the Huguenots, French Protestants who emigrated to th ...

* Thomas Jefferson High School * John Marshall High School *

George Wythe High School Richmond Public Schools is a public school district located in the independent city of Richmond, Virginia. It is occasionally described locally as Richmond City Public Schools to emphasize its connection to the independent city rather than the ...

Private schools and advanced schools

There are also a number of

private schools An independent school is independent in its finances and governance. Also known as private schools, non-governmental, privately funded, or non-state schools, they are not administered by local, state or national governments. In British Eng ...

in the city, including

Saint Gertrude High School Saint Gertrude High School is an independent Catholic college preparatory day school for young women grades 9–12 in Richmond, Virginia. It was founded in 1922 by the Benedictine Sisters of Virginia, of Bristow Monastery, and is still owned and ...

, founded in 1922. It is one of the city of Richmond's oldest functioning private schools. Also notable are the special purpose (or advanced) schools, such as notable

magnet school In the U.S. education system, magnet schools are public schools with specialized courses or curricula. "Magnet" refers to how the schools draw students from across the normal boundaries defined by authorities (usually school boards) as school ...

Maggie L. Walker Governor's School for Government and International Studies, a school that receives a little over 2000 submissions a year. It is among the leading high schools in the nation, and maintains an excellent SAT score average of 2047, well over the national average. The

International Baccalaureate The International Baccalaureate (IB), formerly known as the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO), is a nonprofit foundation headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, and founded in 1968. It offers four educational programmes: the IB Dip ...

programs are also located in many schools throughout the metro region, with all three stages of the IB (Primary Years Programme, Middle Years Programme, and Diploma Programme) being offered at elementary, middle, and high schools abroad. Examples include Three Chopt Elementary in Henrico, Moody Middle (also in Henrico), and Hanover High School, in Hanover.

Universities and colleges

Richmond is known as being a college town with a big city feel. There are several universities known nationwide, and some locally known. Most notable are the regions two Division I schools, the

University of Richmond The University of Richmond (UR or U of R) is a private liberal arts college in Richmond, Virginia. It is a primarily undergraduate, residential institution with approximately 4,350 undergraduate and graduate students in five schools: the School ...

, and

Virginia Commonwealth University Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) is a public research university in Richmond, Virginia. VCU was founded in 1838 as the medical department of Hampden–Sydney College, becoming the Medical College of Virginia in 1854. In 1968, the Virgini ...

, or as it is affectionately called, "VCU". The former is a small, suburban private institution, while the latter is a public, Carnegie-certified

research university A research university or a research-intensive university is a university that is committed to research as a central part of its mission. They are the most important sites at which knowledge production occurs, along with "intergenerational kno ...

, noted for its "high research levels". It sits on two campuses, the Monroe Park campus, and the MCV campus. VCU has over 32,000 students, making it the largest university in the Commonwealth in terms of number of students. Also, its athletics division, collectively known as the

VCU Rams The VCU Rams are the athletic teams of Virginia Commonwealth University of Richmond, Virginia, United States. The Rams compete in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association as members of the Atlantic 10 Conference. The most succ ...

, garnered national attention when the men's basketball team reached the 2011 NCAA Final Four, the semifinals of the college basketball division. Here is a complete list of Richmond's colleges and universities: *

Virginia Union University Virginia Union University is a private historically black Baptist university in Richmond, Virginia. It is affiliated with the American Baptist Churches USA. History The American Baptist Home Mission Society (ABHMS) founded the school as Richm ...

* Randolph Macon College (located in nearby Ashland) *

Virginia State University Virginia State University (VSU or Virginia State) is a public historically Black land-grant university in Ettrick, Virginia. Founded on , Virginia State developed as the United States's first fully state-supported four-year institution of high ...

(located in nearby Petersburg)

References

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