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Dominion High
Test scores
SOL 2024-25 . % PassingWhat this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 86 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 78 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Virginia schools, those numbers are about 74 and 73. Reading and writing scores are up about 21 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 30 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 72% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 75% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Dominion High
Dominion High is one of the substantial unified-grade schools in Sterling, Virginia, overseen by Loudoun County Public Schools, with 1,453 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 12. That puts it 73% above the typical public school in Virginia, which averages around 838 students.
Loudoun County Public Schools runs 98 schools in total, collectively educating 81,486 students. Dominion High is one of those campuses.
On the student-mix side, Dominion High reports that 43% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school shows 32% White, 15% Asian, 6% Black, 4% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 14%.
In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 133 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.9:1. The state averages around 15.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 50% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Loudoun County runs at roughly 28%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Dominion High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 74.6%, the actual is 71.6%, a residual of -3.0 points.
Across the wider county, Loudoun County reports that median household income runs about $181,765, about 65% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Dominion High is one of 103 public schools in Loudoun County (combined enrollment of about 81,486 students).
The closest other public school is W.O. Robey High, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Dominion High. On composite proficiency, Dominion High comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 68.0%.
The school occupies a residential site.
Five-year trend. Dominion High's enrollment has contracted 8% since 2018, when it stood at 1,578 (now 1,453). The White share of enrollment contracted from 45% to 32% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 13.2:1 in 2018 to 10.9:1 today.
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