Burley High School (Charlottesville, Virginia)

Located on Rose Hill Drive, it opened in 1951 to serve students from both the City of Charlottesville and Albemarle County.

[2] The school was built on a seventeen-acre tract of land purchased from a prominent African American community member, Jackson P.

[5] The Jackson P. Burley High School and the University of Virginia created a training course in practical nursing in 1951.

The first year was offered at the high school and included courses on 1. body structure; 2. group living; 3. community health; 4. feeding the family; 5. meeting emergency needs; 6. care of the newborn, mother; 7. children and the aged nursing; 8. nursing principles and skills; and 9. personal and vocational relations and conditions of illnesses.

Applicants to the program had to be senior high school students, at least 16 years of age and of good moral character.

Adults with two years of high school were also eligible for enrollment with the same requirements for good health and moral character.

In 1958, the NAACP filed a lawsuit on behalf of Burley students who sought the opportunity to transfer to all-white Lane High School.