Red Hill
Elementary School is a rural school located on 11 acres in the Samuel
Miller District. The service area is Route 29 South of I-64 to the
Nelson County line, east and west, and all areas east to Appleberry
Mountain Range, including Old Lynchburg Road between Dudley Mountain
Road and Red Hill Road. Representative areas and communities are
Covesville, Heards, Hickory Hill, North Garden, Sherwood Farms, and
Southern Hills.
Students
feed into Walton Middle School and Monticello High School.
Instructional facilities include a library, cafeteria, and gymnasium.
An after-school program is available. The school play areas and
multi-purpose fields serve as a community park after school hours.
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Grade |
Female
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Male
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Total |
| PK |
7 |
9 |
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16 |
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K
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12 |
16 |
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28 |
| 1 |
13 |
8 |
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21 |
| 2 |
19 |
17 |
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36 |
| 3 |
20 |
14 |
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34 |
| 4 |
13 |
12 |
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25 |
| 5 |
12 |
21 |
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33 |
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Black |
Hispanic
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White
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Other
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| 27 |
11 |
145 |
10 |
193 |
as of 9/11/09 |
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- Take Route 29 South
- 7 miles South of I-64, you will see Sprouse's Furniture on the right.
- Get in the left lane and make a left onto Taylor's Gap Road (next to Trading Post Store)
- Follow this road to the end at Red Hill
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The present Red Hill Elementary School is the third building on the
site. Prior to the first building the majority of children in this
community were educated in the home of J.N. Faris of Red Hill.
Realizing the need for a larger place of instruction, the community
built Red Hill Elementary School.
The original building opened in 1905 and consisted of three rooms
on the first floor and an auditorum on the second floor. The school
opened with three teachers with a fourth teacher added the second year.
The faculty increased to six by the fall of 1918.
In January of 1920, a fire completely leveled the building. A red
brick building was built in its place and opened in 1922. Two new
classrooms and a library were added during the 1933-34 school year and
a cafeteria was added in the 1940's.
Following a successful school-bond referendum in November 1971, an
additional building was constructed at the cost of $175,000. It opened
in the fall of 1972, connected to the main bulding by a walkway. It is
the section of the present school known as "the pod".
In 1980 the present main building was constructed at the cost of
$1,340,000. It includes a gym, eight classrooms, a library, a
conference room, an audio-visual storage room, a P.E. office, a faculty
lounge, a large mechanical room, a second set of restrooms, a reception
area, clinic room and principal's office, and a cafetorium. This
building was constructed to include "the pod" which holds five
classrooms, a speech room, and a set of bathrooms. |
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