These are multiple

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Elementary and secondary schools

The Richmond City Public Schools 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. Construction of elementary school replacements began, but Huguenot remains to be replaced. The elementary schools are ranked highly among urban area school districts, while the middle and high schools are not as positively viewed. In a 2009

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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 City Council, in Sydney * Fairfield ...

* J. B. Fisher Elementary School * William Fox Elementary School * J. L. Francis Elementary School * Ginter Park Elementary School *

E. S. H. Greene Elementary School E is the fifth letter of the Latin alphabet. E or e may also refer to: Computing and computation * E (1970s text editor), a text editor developed at the Stanford AI Lab in the 1970s * E (complexity), a set of decision problems solvable by a ...

* Linwood Holton Elementary School * Miles J. Jones Elementary School * George Mason Elementary School *

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* Mary Munford Elementary School * Oak Grove Elementary School * Overby-Sheppard Elementary School *

E. D. Redd Elementary School E is the fifth letter of the Latin alphabet. E or e may also refer to: Computing and computation * E (1970s text editor), a text editor developed at the Stanford AI Lab in the 1970s * E (complexity), a set of decision problems solvable by a ...

* G. H. Reid Elementary School *

Southampton Elementary School Southampton is a port City status in the United Kingdom, city and unitary authority in Hampshire, England. It is located approximately southwest of London, west of Portsmouth, and southeast of Salisbury. Southampton had a population of 253, ...

* J. E. B. Stuart Elementary School *

Summer Hill Elementary School Summer or summertime is the hottest and brightest of the four temperate seasons, occurring after spring and before autumn. At or centred on the summer solstice, daylight hours are the longest and darkness hours are the shortest, with day ...

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, Newfoundland and Labrador * ...

Middle schools

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

Chandler Middle School Chandler or The Chandler may refer to: Occupations * 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 ...

* 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 *

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* Thomas Jefferson High School * John Marshall High School *

George Wythe High School George Wythe High School may refer to: * George Wythe High School (Wytheville, Virginia), part of Wythe County Public Schools in Wythe County, Virginia, U.S. * Richmond High School for the Arts, part of Richmond Public Schools in Richmond, Vir ...

Private schools and advanced schools

There are also a number of

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

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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 SAT score average of 2047, well over the national mean. The

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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 and Moody Middle in Henrico, and Hanover High School, in Hanover.

Universities and colleges

There are several universities known nationwide, and some only locally known. Most notable are the region's two Division I schools, the

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, and

Virginia Commonwealth University Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) is a Public university, public research university in Richmond, Virginia, United States. VCU was founded in 1838 as the medical department of Hampden–Sydney College, becoming the Medical College of Virgin ...

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

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, 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. Its athletics division, collectively known as the

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, 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 university, private Historically black colleges and universities, historically black university in Richmond, Virginia. History The American Baptist Home Mission Society (ABHMS) founded the school as Rich ...

Randolph Macon College Randolph may refer to: Places In the United States * Randolph, Alabama, an unincorporated community * Randolph, Arizona, a populated place * Randolph, California, a village merged into the city of Brea * Randolph, Illinois, an unincorporated com ...

(located in nearby Ashland) *

Virginia State University Virginia State University (VSU or Virginia State) is a Public university, public Historically black colleges and universities, historically Black land-grant university, land-grant university in Ettrick, Virginia, United States. Founded on , Vi ...

(located in nearby Petersburg)

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