Midlothian High School, 401 Charter Colony Parkway, Midlothian: grades 9 through 12, 2,104 students in fall 2025. Office: 804-378-2440.

Last checked Oct. 19, 2026. Sources: Midlothian High School, Chesterfield County Public Schools, the Virginia Department of Education’s School Quality Profile, the federal NCES school directory and the VHSL alignment.

Midlothian High School is a public high school in Chesterfield County Public Schools (CCPS), serving grades 9 through 12. Its mascot is the Trojans and its colors are navy blue and gold, according to the school’s website. Midlothian is unincorporated, so the county school division, not a town, runs the school. Attendance zones follow streets, not ZIP codes or community names: check an address on the division’s School Locator.

The school dates its founding to 1911, according to its website.

Who to call
Address 401 Charter Colony Parkway, Midlothian, VA 23114
Grades 9 to 12
School day 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Website midlothianhs.oneccps.org
Division Chesterfield County Public Schools

Principal

Principal Shawn Abel, according to the school’s website.

Enrollment and teachers

  • State count: 2,104 students in fall 2025, compared with 2,052 in 2024 and 2,051 in 2023, in the School Quality Profile.
  • Federal count: 2,046 students in the 2023-24 school year, with 132 full-time-equivalent teachers, according to the NCES directory. That works out to about 16 students per teacher.

State report card

Virginia rates each school two ways on its School Quality Profile. Accreditation shows whether the school submitted, and the state approved, the evidence the Standards of Accreditation require. The School Performance and Support Framework gives each school a score and one of four performance levels: Distinguished, Meets Expectations, Approaching Expectations or Needs Intensive Support.

  • Accreditation, 2025-26: Fully Accredited
  • Framework score: 101.27, rated Meets Expectations, in the division summary
  • On-time graduation: 98.1% in 2025-26, after 96.7% in 2024-25 and 96.9% in 2023-24. Of 485 students in the latest cohort, 476 graduated on time and nine dropped out.

Standards of Learning pass rates (share of tested students who passed):

Subject 2023-24 2024-25 2025-26
English reading 93% 92% 96%
Math 90% 84% 82%
Science 80% 81% 87%

The full profile also reports results by student group, attendance, spending and teacher data.

Attendance zone

Use the CCPS School Locator 2026-2027 to see the elementary, middle and high school for an address. According to the division’s zone maps, students from all or part of the Midlothian Middle and Tomahawk Creek Middle zones go on to Midlothian High. The locator is the final word for any single address.

West Ridge High. On Oct. 13, the School Board adopted an attendance zone for West Ridge High, the division’s first new high school in 20 years, which is scheduled to open in August 2027 inside the current Cosby zone. All three options the board weighed take territory from Cosby High and Midlothian High, according to Memo #128-26; the division’s summary of the meeting does not say which option was chosen. In the Sept. 8 presentation, students who are 11th graders this year stay at their current school for their senior year in 2027-28. Check an address on the West Ridge redistricting lookup.

Calendar and bell times

From the CCPS 2026-27 calendar, approved by the School Board June 3:

  • Friday, Oct. 30: end of the first quarter; three-hour early release
  • Monday, Nov. 2, and Tuesday, Nov. 3: no school (Nov. 3 is Election Day)
  • Friday, Nov. 13: three-hour early release
  • Nov. 25-27: Thanksgiving holiday
  • Dec. 21 to Jan. 1: winter break
  • March 29 to April 2, 2027: spring break
  • Friday, June 4, 2027: last day of school; early release

The school day runs 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., according to the school’s website.

Sports and activities

Midlothian High plays in Class 5, Region C, Dominion District, according to the VHSL alignment. The district’s schools are Clover Hill, Cosby, Huguenot, James River, L.C. Bird, Manchester, Midlothian, Monacan, Powhatan and Richmond High School for the Arts.

The school’s athletics site lists field hockey, football, boys and girls volleyball, boys and girls basketball, wrestling, baseball, boys and girls lacrosse, boys and girls soccer, softball and tennis.

Midlothian High runs one of the division’s two International Baccalaureate Diploma Programmes, a two-year program in 11th and 12th grades. Eighth graders zoned for West Ridge, Clover Hill, Cosby, James River, Monacan or Midlothian apply to the Midlothian program; students zoned for other CCPS high schools apply to the Meadowbrook program. Applicants take writing and math assessments at the school, according to the IB page. The athletic director is Patrick Steele, 804-378-2440, according to the athletics site.

Follow the Trojans on our Friday night football page and the high school scoreboard.

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Frequently asked questions

What grades does Midlothian High School serve?

Grades 9 through 12. The school is at 401 Charter Colony Parkway in Midlothian.

How is Midlothian High School rated by the state?

It is fully accredited for 2025-26. In Virginia’s School Performance and Support Framework it scored 101.27 and is rated Meets Expectations, according to the state’s School Quality Profiles.

What is Midlothian High School’s graduation rate?

98.1% in 2025-26. Of 485 students in the cohort, 476 graduated on time, according to the state’s School Quality Profile.

What time does Midlothian High School start?

The school day runs 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., according to the school’s website.