Magna Vista High School (Virginia)
Magna Vista High School is a comprehensive public high school in Henry County, Virginia. Named for the Magna Vista plantation which previously occupied the land on which it is situated, it is located approximately three miles west of the town of Ridgeway, Virginia and ten miles (16 km) south of the city of Martinsville, Virginia. Magna Vista currently enrolls approximately 900 students in grades 9-12. It is one of two comprehensive high schools operated by Henry County Public Schools.
Opened in 1988, the campus consists of a 179,969-square-foot (16,719.7 m2) building, a state-of-the-art greenhouse, livestock barn, and extensive athletic facilities. The school is situated on a wooded 110-acre (0.45 km2) tract of land in close proximity to Chestnut Knob, the highest point in Henry County.
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