Monticello High School

Monticello High School (MHS) is a suburban public high school located in Albemarle County, Virginia, United States outside Charlottesville. Opened in 1998, it is one of three traditional comprehensive high schools in the Albemarle County Public Schools System. The school is named after Monticello, the nearby estate of President Thomas Jefferson. With an enrollment of 1,185 students in grades 9 through 12, Monticello receives students from Walton and Burley Middle Schools, which cover the southern and eastern portions of Albemarle county. The school colors are black and gold, and the mascot is a Mustang. The school's fight song uses the tune of The Victors. Effective in the 2019–20 school year, Monticello, along with all the other Albemarle County high schools, operates on a Four-by-Four yearlong schedule, with two sets of classes alternating days and Fridays switching between the two. Dr. Beth Costa became Monticello High School's seventh principal in July 2022. Accolades and academics In June of 2019, theater teacher Madeline Michel won the Tony Award for Excellence in Theater Education. Michel won the award for her creation of an inclusive drama program that invites students from all walks of life to contribute to performances by writing plays, directing, and expressing themselves freely onstage. In the aftermath of the "Unite the Right" rally turned riot in Charlottesville in 2017, the students in theater at Monticello High School wrote and performed one-act plays addressing racial inequality.