Brentsville District High

Brentsville District High is one of the cozy senior highs in Nokesville, Virginia, run under Prince William County Public Schools, with 855 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Virginia's public schools average about 1,213 students each, so Brentsville District High sits 30% below that benchmark.

Prince William County Public Schools runs 95 schools in total, collectively educating 90,242 students. Brentsville District High is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Brentsville District High shows that White students make up the majority at 62%; the rest reads as 25% Hispanic, 5% Black, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Prince William County as a whole is about 43% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Brentsville District High shows 61 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.0:1. The state averages about 13.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 26% of students at Brentsville District High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Prince William County's rate of about 55%.

With demographic context factored in, Brentsville District High sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 81.1%; this one delivers 72.6%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Prince William County) logs that median household income runs about $131,402, about 45% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Prince William County runs 102 public schools (combined enrollment of about 89,591 students), of which Brentsville District High is one.

Nearest neighbor: The Nokesville School, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Brentsville District High comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 81.1%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Over the past 7-year window. Brentsville District High's enrollment has declined 17% since 2018, when it stood at 1,034 (now 855). The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 14% to 25% over that span.

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