Schools provide students with acceleration and exploration in areas ranging from the arts, to government and international studies, to global economics and technology, and to mathematics, science, and technology. They are established as “joint schools” by Virginia school law. As such, they are typically managed by a regional governing board of representatives from the school boards of each participating school division. The regional governing board is charged with developing policies for the school including the school's admissions process. While these processes differ from school to school, all applicants are assessed using multiple criteria by trained evaluators who have experience in gifted education and the focus area of the specific academic-year Governor's School. Most schools specialize in a particular subject, and each serves a single region, only accepting students whose parents or guardians live within a predefined list of nearby cities or counties. Full list of academic-year Governor's Schools A. Linwood Holton Governor's School Grades 10-12 Appomattox Regional Governor's School for the Arts And Technology Grades 9-12 Blue Ridge Virtual Governor's School Grades 9-12 Central Virginia Governor's School for Science and Technology Grades 11-12 Chesapeake Bay Governor's School for Marine and Environmental Science Grades 10-12 Commonwealth Governor's School Grades 9-12 Governor's School for the Arts Grades 9-12 Jackson River Governor's School Grades 11-12 Maggie L. Walker Governor's School for Government and International Studies Grades 9-12 Massanutten Governor's School for Integrated Environmental Science and Technology Grades 11-12 Mountain Vista Governor's School Grades 10-12 New Horizons Governor's School for Science and Technology Grades 11-12 Piedmont Governor's School for Mathematics, Science, and Technology Grades 11-12 Roanoke Valley Governor's School for Science and Technology Grades 9-12 Shenandoah Valley Governor's School Grades 11-12 Southwest Virginia Governor's School for Science, Mathematics, and Technology Grades 11-12 The Governor's School of Southside Virginia Grades 11-12 The Governor's School @ Innovation Park Grade 11-12 Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology Grades 9-12 Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology and Maggie L. Walker Governor's School for Government and International Studies Though there are 19 Governor's Schools designated by the Commonwealth for some amount of instruction during the academic year, many are intended only to supplement the education provided by local districts; these only offer a limited subset of classes, either on a partial-day basis, or in limited form to upperclassmen. Three schools, Appomattox Regional Governor’s School(ARGS), the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, also known