Monacan High School, 11501 Smoketree Drive, North Chesterfield: grades 9 through 12, 1,644 students in fall 2025. Office: 804-378-2480.
Last checked Oct. 19, 2026. Sources: Monacan High School, Chesterfield County Public Schools, the Virginia Department of Education’s School Quality Profile, the federal NCES school directory and the VHSL alignment.
Monacan High School is a public high school in Chesterfield County Public Schools (CCPS), serving grades 9 through 12. Its mascot is the Chiefs and its colors are orange and black, 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.
Monacan’s mailing address is North Chesterfield, not Midlothian. It is on this site because the division’s zone map puts a small area on the eastern edge of the Census-defined Midlothian community, around the W.W. Gordon Elementary zone, in Monacan’s attendance zone.
Who to call
- Front office: 804-378-2480, open 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on school days
- Clinic: 804-378-2486
- Registering a new student: at the school, after preregistering online, per the CCPS registration page
- Buses: CCPS Transportation, 804-464-3077; option 3 reaches the area office for your school, per the transportation page
- CCPS main line: 804-748-1405
| Address | 11501 Smoketree Drive, North Chesterfield, VA 23236 |
| Grades | 9 to 12 |
| School day | 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. |
| Website | monacanhs.oneccps.org |
| Division | Chesterfield County Public Schools |
Principal
Principal Benjamin Shindler, according to the school’s website.
Enrollment and teachers
- State count: 1,644 students in fall 2025, compared with 1,644 in 2024 and 1,645 in 2023, in the School Quality Profile.
- Federal count: 1,643 students in the 2023-24 school year, with 106 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: 90.41, rated Meets Expectations, in the division summary
- On-time graduation: 95% in 2025-26, after 92.8% in 2024-25 and 93.3% in 2023-24. Of 443 students in the latest cohort, 421 graduated on time and 19 dropped out.
Standards of Learning pass rates (share of tested students who passed):
| Subject | 2023-24 | 2024-25 | 2025-26 |
|---|---|---|---|
| English reading | 85% | 89% | 88% |
| Math | 75% | 67% | 65% |
| Science | 62% | 76% | 80% |
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 Providence Middle and Midlothian Middle zones go on to Monacan High. The locator is the final word for any single address.
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
Monacan High plays in Class 4, Region B, 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 boys and girls basketball, cross country, dance (the Monacettes), field hockey, football, golf, indoor track, boys and girls lacrosse, boys and girls soccer, swimming, boys and girls volleyball and wrestling.
Monacan is home to two division specialty centers, the Center for the Humanities and the Health Professions & Therapies Center, according to the specialty center page.
Follow the Chiefs on our Friday night football page and the high school scoreboard.
More on Midlothian schools
- The CCPS schools page links every school’s website.
- Every public school in Midlothian, with zones and state ratings.
- Our Midlothian schools guide covers the calendar, registration and the School Board.
Frequently asked questions
What grades does Monacan High School serve?
Grades 9 through 12. The school is at 11501 Smoketree Drive in North Chesterfield.
How is Monacan High School rated by the state?
It is fully accredited for 2025-26. In Virginia’s School Performance and Support Framework it scored 90.41 and is rated Meets Expectations, according to the state’s School Quality Profiles.
What is Monacan High School’s graduation rate?
95% in 2025-26. Of 443 students in the cohort, 421 graduated on time, according to the state’s School Quality Profile.
What time does Monacan High School start?
The school day runs 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., according to the school’s website.
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