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The Jefferson School is a historic building in Charlottesville, Virginia.It was built to serve as a segregated high school for African-American students. The school, located on Commerce Street in the downtown Starr Hill neighborhood, was built in four sections starting in 1926, with additions made in 1938–39, 1958, and 1959.
Charlottesville's public schools were segregated for decades. Despite the Brown v. Board of Education decision, the school board refused to integrate. A lawsuit representing black students from Burley High School and the Jefferson School led the city to undertake the strategy of Massive Resistance, closing the public schools to avoid integrating.
Jackson served as a teacher at Charlottesville's all-African American school during racial segregation, the Jefferson School (Charlottesville, Virginia). [6] [4] During her tenure there, she taught Industrial Work, and a separate boys and girls Domestic Science class, a coed cooking and sewing class.
Thomas Jefferson High School (1964–1987), in Fairfax County, Virginia (near Alexandria) Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, in Fairfax County, Virginia (near Alexandria) Jefferson School (Charlottesville, Virginia), a historic school building; Thomas Jefferson High School (Richmond, Virginia)
The AA Jefferson District is a district in the Virginia High School League. There are eight member schools. The District is named in honor of Thomas Jefferson, and member schools are clustered around Charlottesville. The District was created in the late 1990s from parts of the Valley and Battlefield Districts, as increased enrollment had forced ...
Jefferson County K-12 School made history in 2023 by earning a C from the Florida Department of Education for its school grade, after decades of Ds and Fs. This year, the school made history again ...
PVCC also opened a center in downtown Charlottesville, Virginia, in January 2013. PVCC is housed on the ground floor in the historic Jefferson School building. The college offers day and evening classes at this facility and has introduced a new associate degree program in culinary arts hosted there since 2013. [5]
Jefferson County Traditional Middle School. The Jefferson County Traditional Middle School School at 1418 Morton Ave. in Louisville, Ky. on July 10, 2023.