The Richmond County School System is an American
public school
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system based in Augusta, Georgia. It is run by the Richmond County Board of Education which, under Article VIII, § V, Paragraph 2, requires that each school system be under the management and control of an elected board of education. As elected Constitutional officials of Georgia, the school board members are responsible for setting educational policies, employing school personnel, providing buildings and equipment, operating a transportation system, and disbursing school funds. The board of education meets in the Richmond County Board of Education building at 864 Broad Street in
Augusta, Georgia. It serves
consolidated
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Augusta-Richmond County, Georgia and the south Richmond County cities of
Hephzibah and
Blythe The name Blythe ( or ) derives from Old English ''bliþe'' ("joyous, kind, cheerful, pleasant"; modern ''blithe''), and further back from Proto-Germanic ''*blithiz'' ("gentle, kind").
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. The system has an enrollment of around 32,000 students, attending 36
elementary school
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s, ten
middle schools, eight
high schools, four
magnet schools, and three other schools. The school board
has its own
police department
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which provides law enforcement services to all the district's schools.
The Richmond County School System is in the third phase of a construction program that will renovate older schools and add new schools, particularly for its magnet program. This will include a
fine arts
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elementary magnet school, a
vocational magnet school, and second magnet traditional elementary school.
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On the most recent state-mandated testing of the academic achievement as well as college- and career-readiness of its students (2019 Georgia Milestones Assessment System-GMAS), the Richmond County School System was ranked among the bottom-ten of the 180 public school systems in Georgia.
Schools
Elementary schools
*A. Brian Merry Elementary School
*Barton Chapel Elementary School
*Bayvale Elementary School
*Belair K-8 School
*Blythe Elementary School
*Copeland Elementary School
*Deer Chase Elementary School
*Diamond Lakes Elementary School
*Freedom Park Elementary School
*Garrett Elementary School
*Glenn Hills Elementary School
*Goshen Elementary School
*Gracewood Elementary School
*Hains Elementary School
*Hephzibah Elementary School
*Hornsby K-8 School
*Jamestown Elementary School
*Jenkins-White Elementary School
*Lake Forest Hills Elementary School
*Lamar-Millege Elementary School
*McBean Elementary School
*Meadowbrook Elementary School
*Monte Sano Elementary School
*Richmond Hill K-8
*Sue Reynolds Elementary School
*Terrace Manor Elementary School
*Tobacco Road Elementary School
*Warren Road Elementary School
*Wheeless Road Elementary School
*Wilkinson Gardens Elementary School
*Willis Foreman Elementary School
Middle schools
* Belair K-8 School
* Freedom Park K-8 School
*Glenn Hills Middle School
*Hephzibah Middle School
*Hornsby Middle School
*Langford Middle School
*Murphey Middle School
*Pine Hill Middle School
*Richmond Hill K-8 School
*Spirit Creek Middle School
*Tutt Middle School
High schools
*Academy of Richmond County
The Academy of Richmond County is a high school located in Augusta, Georgia, United States. Known previously as Richmond County Military Academy, it is commonly known as Richmond Academy or ARC.
Chartered in 1783, it is listed as the sixth old ...
*Cross Creek High School
Cross Creek High School (CCHS) is a public high school located in the South Augusta area of Augusta, Georgia, United States. The school is located within the Richmond County School System.
History
Cross Creek High School opened in 1999, for con ...
* George P. Butler High School
* Glenn Hills High School
* Hephzibah High School
* Lucy Craft Laney High School
*T. W. Josey High School
T. W. Josey Comprehensive High School (commonly referred to as T. W. Josey or Josey High School) is a public high school in Augusta, Georgia, Augusta, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia, United States. Josey's campus is located several blocks south of ...
* Westside High School
Magnet schools
*
*C. T. Walker Traditional Magnet School
Charles Thomas Walker Traditional Magnet School (C.T. Walker) is a public examination school located in the Laney-Walker district of Augusta, Georgia, United States. It draws students from kindergarten through eighth grade from all parts of the ...
*John S. Davidson Fine Arts Magnet School
John S. Davidson Fine Arts Magnet School (DFA) is a public magnet school for the fine and performing arts located in downtown Augusta, Georgia, United States. It draws students in grades 6 through 12 throughout Richmond County. In addition to a b ...
* Richmond County Technical Career Magnet School
Other schools
*Alternative School at Morgan Road
*Sand Hills Program
*Cyber Academy of Excellence
*eSchool
*Marion E. Barnes Career Center
*Reaching Maximum Potential through Manufacturing
*Performance Learning Center
See also
* Georgia Department of Education
* ''Cumming v. Richmond County Board of Education
''Cumming v. Richmond County Board of Education'', 175 U.S. 528 (1899), ("Richmond") was a class action suit decided by the Supreme Court of the United States. It is a landmark case, in that it sanctioned ''de jure'' segregation of races in Americ ...
'' (1899)
References
External links
Richmond County Schools
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School districts in Georgia (U.S. state)
Education in Richmond County, Georgia
Education in Augusta, Georgia