- John Tyler Community College, which offered its first course in 1967, serves 19,000 students annually and will open a Midlothian campus on 126 acres this summer.

-  John Tyler is home to the Business, Industry and Government Services Center, which provides the 10,000 businesses in the Richmond-Petersburg metropolitan area with training and development services

-  John Tyler, Petersburg Public Schools and B.I. Chemicals Inc. offer an apprenticeship program that is unique in the state because it includes, not only adult participants, but high-school students. Graduates of the program are eligible for jobs at the chemical company as certified chemical technicians.

-  Every 10th-grader and non-college-bound senior takes a Work Keys test, which identifies skills the students have or need in order to work in specific fields.

-  With more than 51,000 students, Chesterfield County Public Schools is one of the country’s 100 largest and is consistently named by School Match, an educational research firm, as one of the top 14 percent of school districts in the nation that have "what parents want." Four in five seniors who graduate plan to continue their schooling at a college or trade school.

-  The Chesterfield Technical Center serves all of the district’s high schools and offers 22 career courses, including computer information systems, electronics, auto mechanics and licensed practical nursing.

-  September marked the opening of The Appomattox Regional Governor’s School for the Arts and Technology in Petersburg.