Altavista High

Altavista High is a senior high of low-enrollment scale in Altavista, Virginia, one of the schools within Campbell County Public Schools, enrolling 606 students in grades 6 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 50% below the state mean of about 1,213.

Campbell County Public Schools runs 13 schools in total, collectively educating 7,777 students. Altavista High is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Altavista High lists that the largest single group is White at 55%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 32% Black, 8% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. By comparison, Campbell County as a whole is about 77% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Altavista High lists 58 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. An estimated 72% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Altavista High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 68.6%, the actual is 70.5%, a residual of +1.9 points.

Around the school, census data for Campbell County shows median household earnings sit near $66,165, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Campbell County runs 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,777 students), of which Altavista High is one.

Nearest neighbor: John L. Hurt Elementary, around 1.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Altavista High. On composite proficiency, Altavista High comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 76.4%.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Altavista High's enrollment has fell 9% since 2018, when it stood at 663 (now 606). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 66% to 55%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 13.3:1 in 2018 to 10.5:1 today.

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