Richmond Career Education and Employment Charter School

Located at 4314 Crutchfield Street, in Richmond, Virginia, Richmond Career Education and Employment Charter School is a rural-scale four-year high school that teaches 32 students (grades 9 through 12), part of Richmond City Public Schools. By comparison, Virginia's public schools average about 1,213 students each, so Richmond Career Education and Employment Charter School sits 97% leaner than that benchmark.

Richmond Career Education and Employment Charter School is one of 47 schools operated by Richmond City Public Schools, a district that caters to 20,962 students overall.

On demographics, Richmond Career Education and Employment Charter School logs that nearly all students (88%) are Black. Beyond that, the school records 6% White, 3% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 41%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 3.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Richmond city indicate the typical household earns roughly $64,587 per year, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Richmond Career Education and Employment Charter School is one of 61 public schools in Richmond city (combined enrollment of about 20,253 students).

John Marshall High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Richmond Career Education and Employment Charter School operates from a metropolitan location. As a public charter, Richmond Career Education and Employment Charter School runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Richmond Career Education and Employment Charter School has contracted 6%, going from 34 students in 2018 to 32 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 6.8:1 in 2018 to 3.0:1 in 2025.

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