Munford Elementary Honored with Governor’s Award for Educational Excellence

The Near West End’s Mary Munford is among those schools honored by the Governor’s Award for Educational Excellence.

The award is the highest honor under a new incentive program for schools and school divisions created by the Board of Education to advance Governor Timothy M. Kaine’s “competence to excellence” agenda.

“Students in these schools are soaring far beyond the minimum requirements of the Standards of Learning and No Child Left Behind,” Kaine said in a release this morning. “It speaks to the strength of public education in the commonwealth that the 89 schools that have earned this distinction include schools in rural, suburban and urban communities and schools in every part of the state.”

Other local schools honored were:

Henrico County: Glen Allen Elementary, Nuckols Farm Elementary, Pemberton Elementary, Rivers Edge Elementary, Shady Grove Elementary, Short Pump Elementary, Springfield Park Elementary and Twin Hickory Elementary.

Richmond: A.V. Norrell Elementary, Fairfield Court Elementary,George Mason Elementary and Mary Munford Elementary.

Chesterfield County: Grange Hall Elementary, Midlothian Middle, Swift Creek Elementary and W.W. Gordon Elementary