Matoaca High School

High school in Chesterfield, Virginia

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Matoaca High School is a secondary school in the Matoaca community of unincorporated Chesterfield County, United States. This is the newer campus of the school; the old school campus was converted into a middle school, known currently as Matoaca Middle School. The school's mascot is the Warrior. Matoaca is well known for its sports and its technology specialty center.

This school has a technology specialty program for students to learn about the computer industry, through teaching classes such as Oracle I and II, Cisco, and IT1 and 2 (preparatory classes for Network+ and A+ certifications). Matoaca was formally the only school in Chesterfield County that distributed laptop computers for their students' use, but due to "students [failing] to show any academic gains compared with those in schools without laptops" the school discontinued their use for those not in the Specialty Center program.^[2]

The school's only campus is located at 17700 Longhouse Lane in Chesterfield. However, the older school located at 6001 Hickory Road was converted into Matoaca Middle School's East Campus in approximately 2002, where the CBG (Center Based Gifted) program and 8th graders are housed. The school's East Campus covers over 100 acres.

Notable alumni

Terrell Brown – CBS News correspondent^[3]
James Farrior – former Pittsburgh Steelers middle linebacker^[4]
Javaid Siddiqi – Virginia Secretary of Education under Bob McDonnell
Sonya T. Smith – mechanical engineer at Howard University^[5]
Jennifer McClellan – Member of Congress, former state legislator^[6]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Matoaca High". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved December 17, 2022.
^ Hu, Winnie (May 4, 2007). "Seeing No Progress, Some Schools Drop Laptops". The New York Times. Retrieved August 10, 2014.
^ Buettner, Michael (June 6, 2012). "Schools' outstanding alumni honored by foundation". Chesterfield Observer. Archived from the original on March 12, 2014. Retrieved March 12, 2014.
^ White, Jeff. "Farrior and Miller Carry UVa Banner in Super Bowl XLV". University of Virginia Athletics. Retrieved March 12, 2014.
^ "Matoaca High School graduate has been appointed chair of Dept. of Mechanical Engineering at Howard University". The Progress-Index. July 19, 2011.
^ Moomaw, Graham (December 23, 2016). "After 'devastating' 2016 election, McClellan plans next political chapter". Richmond Times-Dispatch. Retrieved April 12, 2024.

"Matoaca grad new envoy to Cape Verde" By Julian Walker. Richmond Times-Dispatch. September 28, 2005.
"The Great Divide: Area schools cope with low budgets and high expectations" By Malcolm J. Venable. Richmond.com. May 9, 2000
"Former Chesterfield County Student - Athletes in 2005 NFL Pro Bowl". Department of Public Affairs for Chesterfield County. February 24, 2005

External links

Matoaca High School Homepage

Virginia High School League AAA Central District

Member Schools

Colonial Heights
Dinwiddie
Hopewell
Matoaca
Meadowbrook
Petersburg
Prince George
Thomas Dale

Education in Chesterfield County, Virginia

Chesterfield County Public Schools
Public high schools	Lloyd C. Bird Clover Hill Cosby James River Manchester Matoaca Meadowbrook Midlothian Monacan Thomas Dale
Other public schools	Mathematics and Science High School at Clover Hill

Tertiary
Colleges and universities	Brightpoint Community College Virginia State University

This list is incomplete.
Although Virginia State University has a "Petersburg, Virginia" mailing address, it is listed here anyway since most of its territory is located within the Chesterfield County CDP of Ettrick.