Colonial Heights Middle

Colonial Heights Middle is one of the reasonably sized middle-grades schools in Colonial Heights, Virginia, one of the schools within Colonial Heights City Public Schools, with 700 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8.

Across the 5 schools in Colonial Heights City Public Schools (2,971 students total), Colonial Heights Middle accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Colonial Heights Middle shows that the most-represented group is White (40%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school shows 31% Black, 15% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 4% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 66% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school employs 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 98% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Colonial Heights Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.3%, the actual is 64.3%, a residual of +3.0 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Colonial Heights city) logs that the typical household earns roughly $76,505 per year, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Colonial Heights city runs 6 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,971 students), of which Colonial Heights Middle is one.

Colonial Heights High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Colonial Heights Middle. On composite proficiency, Colonial Heights Middle comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 57.0%.

Colonial Heights Middle operates from an outer-ring location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 12%: 624 students in 2018 compared to 700 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 62% to 40%. Class-load math has widened: from 11.6:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 in 2025.

On allk12, the feed for Colonial Heights Middle typically covers sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.