Bellevue Elementary School in Richmond, Virginia is named as one of the US Department of Education's Blue Ribbon Schools.

Bellevue Elementary School in Richmond, Virginia is named as one of the US Department of Education's Blue Ribbon Schools. This prestigious award is only given to 9 schools in the entire state of Virginia and 304 schools across the country. The winners were announced Thursday September 9th, 2010.

Out of the 304 schools recognized 50 were private and 254 were public. Representatives of each of the schools will be presented the award at a ceremony on November 15th and 16th in Washington D.C. In the past 28 years since the award's inception, 6,000 schools have been awarded the Blue Ribbon Title. 

"The Blue Ribbon Schools Program honors public and private schools based on one of two criteria:

1. Schools whose students, regardless of backgrounds, are high performing. These are schools ranked among the state's highest performing schools as measured by their performance on state assessments or in the case of private schools, that score at the highest performance level on tests referenced by national norms in at least the most recent year tested; and
2. Schools with at least 40 percent of their students from disadvantaged backgrounds that improve student performance to high levels as measured by the school's performance on state assessments or nationally-normed tests."

Bellevue Elemnetary School is located at 2301 East Grace Street Richmond, VA 23223-7151. The phone number for Bellevue Elementary is (804) 780-4417. Bellevue is located in the neighborhood of Historic Church Hill, one of Richmond's most well known areas.

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