In addition to the broad spectrum of programs in each comprehensive high school, Chesterfield County Public Schools offers students the opportunity to participate in optional academic programs related to special interests.

Specialty center booklet.

Specialty centers and locations

Admission documents

Please download documents below to print, fill in and submit to school Guidance Office.

• Specialty Center Application Requirements
• Specialty Center Application
• Specialty Center Recommendation Form

Calendars

• Specialty Center Event Calendar
• Specialty Center Student Calendar of Events

Specialty Center Coordinator Directory

Other options for secondary students

• CCPSOnline
• Maggie L. Walker Governor’s School for Government and International Studies
• Appomattox Regional Governor’s School for the Arts and Technology

Specialty center transportation

Bus stops are established within a three-mile radius of students’ residences. These are considered express stops. No intervening stops are made between the established stops, even though the bus may pass right by your door.

Routes and stops are established by the transportation office in the home school area of the student. For example, if the student normally attends James River, but enrolls in the Thomas Dale Center for Fine Arts, then transportation is through the transportation office responsible for James River.

Each year, routes are posted on this website and are available to schools by Aug. 15. Stops are created if the addresses do not fit existing stops (i.e. a new student does not live within a three-mile radius of an existing stop).

School bus routes and stops may be viewed on the school division website by going to http://Chesterfield.k12.va.us. Click on Find it Quickly (left side menu). Click on Bus Stops. There are six transportation areas – find your home school, then “click” the specialty routes for that area – located at the bottom of each list.

For those who do not use the internet, you may call the area transportation office:

• Area 1 – Meadowbrook/Bird – 743-3605
• Area 2 – Midlothian/Cosby – 378-2475
• Area 3 – Clover Hill/Manchester – 739-6260
• Area 4 – Thomas Dale/Matoaca – 796-2604
• Area 5 – Exceptional Education – 768-6124
• Area 6 – Monacan/James River – 674-4506

With permission, students may ride a different bus in the afternoon. For example, if an afternoon bus leaves a specialty center going to a stop that is more helpful to the student and family, the student may ride that bus rather than the one taken in the morning.

Activity buses are available and leave from each specialty center at approximately 4:30 p.m. to return students to their home school. Once at the home school, specialty students are responsible for getting home just as all other students who stay after school for various activities.