Education
Colonial Heights Public Schools
512 BoulevardColonial Heights, VA 23834
Phone: (804) 524-3400
Website
The City of Colonial Heights Public School system strives to excel in its programs as well as foster successful students and productive citizens.
The Career & Technology Education (CTE) program includes courses in: Marketing, Business Management and Administration, Family and Consumer Sciences, Architecture and Construction, Health and Medical Sciences, and Trades and Industrial.
Appomattox Regional Governor's School for the Arts & Technology
512 West Washington Street
Petersburg, Virginia 23803
Phone: (804) 722-0200
Website
The Appomattox Regional Governor’s School for the Arts and Technology provides gifted and talented students a differentiated and rigorous education, cultivates a supportive environment that inspires unique artistic and technological visions, promotes cultural tolerance, nurtures community partnerships, and produces active, engaged citizens.
Virginia State University
1 Hayden DrivePetersburg, VA 23806
(804) 524-5000
Virginia State University lies just outside the City of Colonial Heights and offers a vast curriculum, including an accredited nursing program.
Other Major Universities
Several major universities are within an hour’s drive of Colonial Heights:
- Virginia Commonwealth University
- University of Richmond
- Randolph Macon College
- Longwood University
- College of William and Mary
- Virginia Union University
- James Madison University
- University of Virginia
- University of Mary Washington
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute
- Radford University
- Liberty University
Community Colleges & Junior College
- John Tyler Community College (Chester) - Go to the Center for Workforce & Community Education
- J Sargeant Reynolds Community College (Richmond) - Go to Workforce Services
- Richard Bland College (Petersburg)