| Education |
| Middlesex County Public Schools |
| About 1300 students
attend Middlesex Elementary, St. Clare Walker Middle School and
Middlesex High School. The student-teacher ratio is 10.9:1 at
the elementary level and 11.1:1 at the high school level. Special
education programs are available for children with qualifying
conditions and disabilities. Athletic and gifted programs help
all students discover and develop their particular talents and
aptitudes. Over 80% of high school grads continue their education.
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| Private Schools |
| Chesapeake Academy (Irvington), Ware Academy (Gloucester)
and Aylett Country Day School (near
Tappahannock) offer boys and girls instruction from preschool
through eighth grade. |
| St. Margaret’s is an 8th-12th grade girls’ boarding
school in Tappahannock. It also accepts female day students from
the area. Christchurch School, which is just outside Urbanna,
is a boys’ boarding school for grades 8-12. It also accepts local
girls as day students. |
| Colleges & Universities |
| Rappahannock
Community College is located about 15 minutes from Urbanna.
Other colleges and universities within an hour or so of town
include Christopher Newport University, The College of William & Mary,
University of Richmond, Virginia Commonwealth University,
Union Theological Seminary and Virginia Union. |
