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Charles, VA schools

2 public, charter and private schools in Charles. Search by name or narrow by level, type.

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Charles’s School Grade: D

The public schools Charles’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 93% of Virginia’s districts on state tests and graduation.

D-Test scoresC-Graduation

Virginia school districts we grade (133)Better than 7%

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Good confidence. Built on 242 tested students and a graduating class of 52; ordinary year-to-year swings are unlikely to change the grade.

How the School Grade works

Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Virginia’s state tests, each against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each. Tests count 60% and graduation 40%.
Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of Virginia only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in Virginia with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.

Test scores · 2020–21

State test results

Math (Charles City County)24%

State average 54.4%

Graduation · class of 2020

84% graduate on time

Graduation rate

84%

VA: 88.8%

Graduating class

students

The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years.

Districts

The district serving Charles

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Charles City County Public SchoolsGrades PK–12 · 2 schools · 523 students

$24,691 per studentVA $17,169D

Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.

Within reach

Colleges near Charles

There’s no college in Charles, but 14 colleges are within 30 miles. The closest is Chester Career College in CHESTER, 17.1 miles away.

Chester Career CollegeCareer school · For-profit · CHESTER17.1 mi147 students

Brightpoint Community CollegeCommunity college · Public · Chester18.9 mi6,289 students

Southside College of Health SciencesCommunity college · Private nonprofit · Colonial Heights19.4 mi91 students

William & MaryUniversity or college · Public · Williamsburg20.2 mi8,636 students Virginia State UniversityUniversity or college · Public · Petersburg21.1 mi5,107 students

Richard Bland CollegeCommunity college · Public · South Prince George22.8 mi2,395 students

Virginia Commonwealth UniversityUniversity or college · Public · Richmond25.5 mi25,603 students Virginia Union UniversityUniversity or college · Private nonprofit · Richmond25.9 mi1,153 students

Union Presbyterian SeminaryUniversity or college · Private nonprofit · Richmond26.5 mi163 students

Galen Health Institutes-RichmondCareer school · For-profit · Richmond27.8 mi374 students

4 more within 30 miles.

Straight-line distance from the center of Charles. Degree-granting colleges with students on campus. Colleges marked › have their own page; the others are too small or don’t report enough to the Department of Education for one.

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