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Petersburg, VA schools

10 public, charter and private schools in Petersburg. Search by name or narrow by level, type or district.

DSchool Grade #207Best schools in VA (of 219)#240Highest graduation rate in VA (of 249)

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Petersburg’s School Grade: D

The public schools Petersburg’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 95% of Virginia’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.

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Virginia school districts we grade (133)Better than 5%

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Virginia towns with similar household incomes (185)Better than 1%

High confidence. Built on 819 tested students and a graduating class of 274; 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.