Albemarle High

Located at 2775 Hydraulic Road, in Charlottesville, Virginia, Albemarle High is a large senior high that instructs 1,964 students (grades 9 through 12), part of Albemarle County Public Schools. Compared to the state average of about 1,213 students per school, that is 62% larger than typical.

Albemarle County Public Schools runs 24 schools in total, collectively educating 14,149 students. Albemarle High is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Albemarle High records that 46% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder comes out to 22% Hispanic, 16% Black, 9% Asian, 8% multiracial. By comparison, Albemarle County as a whole is about 75% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 130 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. Roughly 31% of students at Albemarle High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Albemarle High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 79.7%, the actual is 70.7%, a residual of -9.0 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Albemarle County shows median household earnings sit near $104,392, roughly 61% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Albemarle County runs 26 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,438 students), of which Albemarle High is one.

The closest other public school is Journey Middle, roughly 0.4 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Albemarle High comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 58.2%.

Albemarle High operates from an outlying location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 1,992 students in 2018 compared to 1,964 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 59% to 46% across the same window. Class-load math has rose: from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 in 2025.

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