Schools · Charlottesville
Charlottesville, VA schools
19 public, charter and private schools in Charlottesville. Search by name or narrow by level, type or district.
TownTapestry School GradeNew
C
Charlottesville’s School Grade: C
The public schools Charlottesville’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 74% of Virginia’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.
CTest scoresC-Graduation
Virginia school districts we grade (133)Better than 26%
Lower resultsHigher results
Virginia towns with similar household incomes (207)Better than 12%
High confidence. Built on 1,750 tested students and a graduating class of 310; 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 (Charlottesville City)42%
State average 54.4%
Graduation · class of 2020
87% graduate on time
Graduation rate
87%
VA: 88.8%
Graduating class
310
students
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years. #206 of 249 VA towns →
Districts
The district serving Charlottesville
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Colleges
Charlottesville is home to University of Virginia
More about University of Virginia →Every school
All 19 schools in Charlottesville
Showing 1–19 of 19 schools
Jackson-Via ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–4 · 370 students
CPublicJohnson ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–4 · 327 students
C+PublicTrailblazer ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–4 · 320 students
BPublicBurnley-Moran ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–4 · 299 students
C+PublicSummit ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–4 · 285 students
DPublicGreenbrier ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–4 · 267 students
B-PublicCharlottesville Day SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 204 students
PrivateFirst Baptist PreschoolElementary · Grades PK–K · 117 students
PrivateWalker Upper ElementaryMiddle · Grades 5–6 · 570 students
C-PublicBuford MiddleMiddle · Grades 7–8 · 563 students
CPublicJackson P. Burley MiddleMiddle · Grades 6–8 · 534 students
BPublicCharlottesville HighHigh · Grades 9–12 · 1,438 students
BPublicCommunity Lab SchoolHigh · Grades 6–12 · 177 students
A-CharterRenaissance SchoolHigh · Grades 9–12 · 42 students
PrivateCenter IIGrades M
PublicCharlottesville Hosp. Ep.Other · Grades PK–12
PublicElementary School #1Grades M
PublicLugo-McGinness Academy
PublicSt. Anne's-Belfield SchoolOther · Grades PK–12 · 15 students
PrivateSchool data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES). Ratings are from neighbors on TownTapestry.