Auburn High

Auburn High is a rural-scale high school in Riner, Virginia, operated by Montgomery County Public Schools. The school educates 393 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 68% below the typical public school in Virginia, which averages around 1,213 students.

Montgomery County Public Schools comprises 19 schools with combined enrollment of 9,461 students; Auburn High is among them.

In terms of who attends, Auburn High reports that 93% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest comes out to 3% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 82%.

On the resource side, The school employs 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Auburn High tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 41% of students at Auburn High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Auburn High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 77.0%, the actual is 84.0%, a residual of +7.0 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Montgomery County put the typical household earns roughly $72,715 per year, about 49% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Montgomery County runs 23 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,461 students), of which Auburn High is one.

Nearest neighbor: Auburn Middle, around 0.2 miles off. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Auburn High at 1st of 7; the average score across the group is 73.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Over the past 7-year window. Auburn High's enrollment has decreased 8% since 2018, when it stood at 428 (now 393). Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 in 2025.

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