Auburn Middle

Auburn Middle is one of the tight-knit 6-8 campuss in Riner, Virginia, overseen by Montgomery County Public Schools, with 309 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. That puts it 59% smaller than the typical public school in Virginia, which averages around 750 students.

Auburn Middle is one of 19 schools operated by Montgomery County Public Schools, a district that hosts 9,461 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Auburn Middle logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%); the rest breaks down as 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 82%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 44% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Auburn Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 76.2%, the actual is 76.6%, a residual of +0.4 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Montgomery County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $72,715 per year, 49% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Auburn Middle is one of 23 public schools in Montgomery County (combined enrollment of about 9,461 students).

Nearest neighbor: Auburn High, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Auburn Middle. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Auburn Middle ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 74.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Auburn Middle has ticked up 14%, going from 270 students in 2018 to 309 in 2025.

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