Richmond Technical Center
2020 Westwood Ave, Richmond, VA, 23230-4198 - Map Map

School Overview:
Definition of Terms
Richmond Technical Center
School Type Vocational school
Grades Offered Grades N - N
County Richmond City County, VA
Students & Faculty
Total Students n/a
% Male / % Female n/a
Total Classroom Teachers 40 teachers
Students by Grade
n/a
This School
(VA) School Average
Teacher : Student Ratio n/a 1:23
Students by Ethnicity
This School
(VA) School Average
% American Indian n/a n/a
% Asian n/a 7%
% Hispanic n/a 10%
% Black n/a 26%
% White n/a 54%
Additional Student Information
This School
(VA) School Average
% Eligible for Free Lunch n/a 20%
% Eligible for Reduced Lunch n/a 5%
% Migrant Students Enrolled n/a n/a
School Performance:
(VA) Statewide Testing Performance
School Statewide Performance View Education Department Test Scores
School District:
School District Name Richmond City Public s School District
This School's Agency
(VA) District Average
Number of Schools Managed 56 1
Number of Students Managed 24,316 students 6,554 students
District Total Revenue $307,904,000 $65,298,000
District Expenditure $313,868,000 $65,810,000
District Revenue / Student $12,663 $9,963
District Expenditure / Student $12,908 $10,041
In the News:
  • New year, but no new schools (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
    posted on September 6, 2009 at 04:05:15 am
    The school year starts Tuesday without a single new school opening in the city of Richmond or the counties of Chesterfield, Hanover and Henrico. While the counties have opened schools in recent years, Richmond has not opened one since 1999, when Blackwell, Linwood Holton and Miles Jones elementary schools opened. But there’s noise in City Hall about building a replacement Huguenot High School ...
  • Officials seek to better Richmond schools’ technical education (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
    posted on August 17, 2009 at 04:16:04 am
    Richmond City Councilman Douglas G. Conner Jr. said he’s tired of retraining students from the Richmond Technical Center when they’re hired to work at his auto-body shop. He said his experiences—combined with Richmond Public Schools’ 66 percent graduation rate—show the need to overhaul career and technical education. He’s pursuing ideas for an overhaul through a set of city-sponsored trips, ...
  • New technical school to start this fall for Richmond Public Schools (NBC 12 Richmond)
    posted on July 27, 2009 at 04:15:56 pm
    RICHMOND, VA (WWBT) - The future is happening now for dozens of Richmond students. Starting this fall, the cutting-edge knowledge they'll need to compete in the workforce will be available years before they even graduate.
  • Richmond Technical Center duo places 5th in engineering contest (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
    posted on July 23, 2009 at 11:12:45 pm
    Courtney Bagby and Nicole Smith, students at the Richmond Technical Center, placed fifth in the structural engineering competition at this year’s National Technology Student Association Conference, June 28-July 2 in Denver. Bagby and Smith, also students at Richmond Community High School, earned fifth-place honors for their model of a roof truss system that demonstrated their knowledge of ...
  • Community celebrates return of Battery Park (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
    posted on June 21, 2009 at 04:12:19 am
    Tayvon Simpson, 17, sat on a stone wall in the blazing heat yesterday waiting for a three-on-three basketball game to get going. People milled around him, celebrating a milestone many did not think would happen: the rededication of Battery Park in North Richmond. “This park is important to me because there is a lot of history here,“ said Simpson, a junior at Richmond Technical Center. “Black ...
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School Notes:
 
School Zip Code:
About This Zip Code (23230)
School Zip (23230)
(VA) State Average
Population (Approximate) 6,872 people 6,688,554 people
% (age 25+) w/College Degree 33% 26%
Population Average Age 37 years old 35 years old
Average Household size 2.1 persons 2.5 persons
Median Household Income $36,083 $50,018
Avg. # of Rooms in Household 5.1 rooms 5.9 rooms
Median Age of Housing Structure 53 years old 34 years old
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Median Value of Housing Unit
Zipcode (23230)


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Zillow Median Value of Housing Unit
% Owning / % Renting 53% / 47% 66% / 34%
School Map:
1. Thirteen Acres Special Ed Center - n/a - 0.6 mi. away - view location
2. Thomas Jefferson High School - 750 students - 1.1 mi. away - view location
3. Albert Hill Middle School - 454 students - 1.3 mi. away - view location
4. Ginter Park Elementary School - 506 students - 1.3 mi. away - view location
5. Maggie L. Walker Gov School - n/a - 1.5 mi. away - view location
View all schools in: Richmond, Richmond City County, Zip 23230 
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