High · Alternative · Grades 6 to 12
Richmond Alternative School, Richmond, VA
Richmond Alternative School is a public high school in Richmond, part of Richmond City Public Schools. It enrolled 277 students in 2024-25, with 8.4 students per full-time teacher.
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 277
- Teachers (FTE)
- 33.0
- Students per teacher
- 8.4
- Grades
- 6 to 12
This school's ratio is 3.5 lower than the district figure of 11.9. The Virginia average across schools is 14.0. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.
This school8.4
District11.9
Virginia14.0
United States15.3
School details
- Address
- 119 West Leigh Street, Richmond, VA 23220
- Phone
- (804)780-4388
- District
- Richmond City Public Schools
- County
- Richmond city
- Level
- High
- Type
- Alternative
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Locale
- City: Midsize
- NCES school ID
- 510324002307
Related schools
Other high schools in Richmond City Public Schools
- Huguenot High 1,469 students
- Richmond High School for the Arts 1,116 students
- Thomas Jefferson High 749 students
- Armstrong High 709 students
- John Marshall High 645 students
- Franklin Military Academy 335 students
- Richmond Community High 211 students
- Open High 171 students
- Richmond Career Education and Employment Charter School 32 students
High schools elsewhere in Richmond
- John Randolph Tucker High Henrico County Public Schools
- Douglas S. Freeman High Henrico County Public Schools
- Hermitage High Henrico County Public Schools
- Mills E. Godwin High Henrico County Public Schools
- Monacan High Chesterfield County Public Schools
- Varina High Henrico County Public Schools
- Henrico High Henrico County Public Schools
We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.