Carter G. Woodson Middle

Set in Hopewell, Virginia, Carter G. Woodson Middle is a mid-tier middle-grades school, overseen by Hopewell City Public Schools. It works with 803 students across grades 6 through 8.

Hopewell City Public Schools runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 3,949 students. Carter G. Woodson Middle is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Carter G. Woodson Middle lists that 58% of the student body identifies as Black. Beyond that, the school shows 19% White, 16% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 44% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 66 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. Roughly 101% of students at Carter G. Woodson Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Carter G. Woodson Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 60.6%, the actual is 47.6%, a residual of -13.0 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Hopewell city indicate the typical household earns roughly $54,729 per year, 14% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 18%. Across Hopewell city's 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,949 students), Carter G. Woodson Middle is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Dupont Elementary, roughly 0.8 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Carter G. Woodson Middle comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 59.6%.

Carter G. Woodson Middle operates from a bedroom-community location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Carter G. Woodson Middle has shrank 11%, going from 907 students in 2018 to 803 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 26% to 19% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 in 2025.

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