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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.
Charlottesville High School is a public high school in the independent city of Charlottesville, Virginia, serving students from 9th to 12th grade. It is a part of Charlottesville City Schools . It is the second largest high school in the region, [ citation needed ] with a student population of approximately 1,360.
Jackson P. Burley High School, a segregated school for African American students, was in operation from 1951 to 1967 and served students from both the City of Charlottesville and Albemarle County. Burley High School was purchased by Albemarle County soon after it closed, [ 77 ] and reopened in 1974 as Jackson P. Burley Middle School.
Albemarle County Public Schools (ACPS) is a school district serving Albemarle County, Virginia.Its headquarters are in the City of Charlottesville. [1] ACPS serves approximately 14,000 students in preschool through grade 12 in Albemarle County, Virginia, the sixth largest county by area in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
All of the K-12 school districts are classified as dependent public school systems by the U.S. Census Bureau. [2] Each public school division is associated with one or more of the counties , independent cities and incorporated towns in Virginia, with major portions of their funding (and in many instances other services) provided through those ...
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Schools in Charlottesville, Virginia (12 P) Pages in category "Education in Charlottesville, Virginia" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
NB: James City County and the City of Williamsburg operate a joint school system. All of the district's high schools have "Williamsburg" postal addresses, but are located in the County. Jamestown High School, Williamsburg; Lafayette High School, Williamsburg; Warhill High School, Williamsburg (opened in 2007)