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Daniel Morgan Intermediate
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Test scores
SOL 2024-25 . % PassingWhat this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 57 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 61 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Virginia schools, those numbers are about 74 and 73. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2022, while math scores are up about 11 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 57% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 65% typical for Virginia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Virginia's top nor bottom 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Daniel Morgan Intermediate
Daniel Morgan Intermediate is a low-enrollment junior high in Winchester, Virginia, overseen by Winchester City Public Schools. The school enrolls 575 students in grades 5 through 6. That puts it 23% smaller than the typical public school in Virginia, which averages around 750 students.
Across the 7 schools in Winchester City Public Schools (4,362 students total), Daniel Morgan Intermediate accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Looking at the student body, Daniel Morgan Intermediate lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder reads as 33% White, 10% Black, 7% multiracial, 4% Asian. By comparison, Winchester city as a whole is about 21% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
On the resource side, Daniel Morgan Intermediate lists 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.1:1, putting Daniel Morgan Intermediate higher than the state norm the norm. Around 86% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
After controlling for student poverty, Daniel Morgan Intermediate sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 64.8%; this one delivers 56.8%.
In the broader community, the surrounding county (Winchester city) records that median household income runs about $63,974, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. Daniel Morgan Intermediate is one of 8 public schools in Winchester city (combined enrollment of about 5,235 students).
Daniel Morgan Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Daniel Morgan Intermediate at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 60.4%.
The school occupies a metropolitan site.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 14%: 672 students in 2018 compared to 575 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 41% to 33% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 13.3:1 in 2018 to 21.0:1 today.
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