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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the FALLING CREEK MIDDLE administration to hear?
Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
Enrollment
1,443
Middle
DISTRICT 1,192 · STATE 750
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHESTERFIELD COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 510084000329
Falling Creek Middle
4780 Hopkins Rd., North Chesterfield, VA 23234 · (804) 743-3640 · Chesterfield County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,443 STUDENTS
F
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 1% of Virginia public middle schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Virginia public middle schools
Student : Teacher
12.6:1
115 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.3:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
76%
1,093 students
DISTRICT 56% · STATE 66%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 509 | 35% |
| Grade 7 | 462 | 32% |
| Grade 8 | 472 | 33% |
Student demographics
57%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 70% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
SOL 2024-25 . % PassingEnglish Language Arts
40.0%
VA avg 74.2% . -1.0pp since 2022
Math
31.0%
VA avg 72.7% . -1.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 31 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Virginia schools, those numbers are about 74 and 73. Reading and writing scores are down about 1 points since 2022, while math scores are down about 1 points.
SOL results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 40.0% | 31.0% |
| 2023-24 | 41.0% | 37.0% |
| 2022-23 | 41.0% | 32.0% |
% Passing, all students and all tested grades.
Source: SOL. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of VA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
39.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
67.5%
based on VA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-28.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 67% typical for Virginia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Falling Creek Middle
Falling Creek Middle's state test result (39.4% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Falling Creek Middle this school | 1,443 | 75.7% | 39.4% |
| Providence Middle North Chesterfield | 1,033 | 75.0% | 53.8% |
| Rippon Middle Woodbridge | 1,200 | 69.3% | 62.5% |
| Fred M. Lynn Middle Woodbridge | 973 | 68.7% | 59.8% |
| Whitman Middle Alexandria | 828 | 67.8% | 58.3% |
| Salem Church Middle North Chesterfield | 876 | 75.3% | 50.1% |
Matched among Virginia middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Falling Creek Middle ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Virginia | In Chesterfield County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 39.4% | #330 of 337 | #12 of 12 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 31.0% | #335 of 342 ▼ 6 | #12 of 12 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 40.0% | #338 of 342 ▼ 3 | #12 of 12 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,443 | #10 of 343 | #3 of 12 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.6:1 | #128 of 327 | #1 of 12 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 56.9% | #189 of 333 | #9 of 12 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 75.7% | #147 of 340 | #2 of 12 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +13.4% | #35 of 99 | #3 of 7 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,443
+8 (+1%) vs 2020
+50% since 1990-91, when it was 960
Student : Teacher
12.6:1
was 14.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 1,443 | 115 | 12.6:1 | 76% (1,093) |
| 2023-24 | 1,388 | 116 | 12.0:1 | 76% (1,055) |
| 2022-23 | 1,419 | 87 | 16.3:1 | 80% (1,136) |
| 2020-21 | 1,435 | 101 | 14.2:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 1,273 | 88.7 | 14.3:1 | 71% (910) |
| 2015-16 | 1,199 | 87 | 13.8:1 | 69% (825) |
| 2010-11 | 1,181 | 65 | 18.2:1 | 60% (706) |
| 2000-01 | 1,049 | 80 | 13.1:1 | 40% (420) |
| 1990-91 | 960 | 61 | 15.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Falling Creek Middle.
Since 2017-18: students up 13% (1,273 to 1,443); teachers up 30% (88.7 to 115).
About Falling Creek Middle
Falling Creek Middle is a middle school in North Chesterfield, Virginia, according to federal school records. The school teaches grades 6 through 8 and enrolls 1,443 students. It has 92% more students than the average for middle schools in Virginia (about 750).
Falling Creek Middle is run by Chesterfield County Public Schools, whose 65 schools enroll 64,194 students.
More than half of the students at Falling Creek Middle are Hispanic (55%). The remaining shares are 36% Black, 6% White, and 3% multiracial. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Chesterfield County's population at about 12%. The diversity index for Falling Creek Middle is 57%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
There are 115 full-time-equivalent teachers at the school, a ratio of 12.6:1. The 13.1:1 average for middle schools in Virginia is close to this figure. On the income side, 76% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The 54% average for public schools in Chesterfield County is 22 points lower.
Falling Creek Middle earns an F on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 1% of Virginia public middle schools.
On BeatsExpectations, which compares test results with what a school's student poverty level would predict, Falling Creek Middle ranks in the bottom 10% in Virginia. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 39.4%, against a prediction of 67.5%.
For Chesterfield County, Census Bureau data show median household income comes to about $101,931, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 44%, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. The county has 76 public schools and about 64,194 students.
Measured in a straight line, Bensley Elementary is less than a tenth of a mile from Falling Creek Middle. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. On proficiency, Falling Creek Middle is behind the 48.2% nearby average, ranking 8th of 9.
Federal records code the school's setting as Suburb: Large.
Over 4 years, enrollment stayed close to where it was, going from 1,435 to 1,443. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio dropped from 14.2:1 to 12.6:1.
Parents, students, and staff can share information on pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback here. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
Chesterfield County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
377,869
Census ACS
Median income
$101,931
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
44%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
76
64,194 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Chesterfield County Public Schools
- Thomas Dale HighHigh · 2,582 students
- Cosby HighHigh · 2,507 students
- Manchester HighHigh · 2,236 students
- Lloyd C. Bird HighHigh · 2,131 students
- Midlothian HighHigh · 2,048 students
- Meadowbrook HighHigh · 1,953 students
Other schools in North Chesterfield
- Meadowbrook HighHigh · 1,953 students
- Manchester MiddleMiddle · 1,109 students
- Providence MiddleMiddle · 1,033 students
- Beulah ElementaryElementary · 902 students
- J.G. Hening ElementaryElementary · 877 students
- Salem Church MiddleMiddle · 876 students
Nearby schools
- Bensley Elementary0.1 mi · 615
- Falling Creek Elementary0.1 mi · 823
- Thomas C. Boushall Middle1.1 mi · 621
- J.G. Hening Elementary1.3 mi · 877
- Broad Rock Elementary1.4 mi · 612
- Hopkins Road Elementary1.5 mi · 776
Frequently asked questions
About Falling Creek MiddleWhat is the total enrollment at Falling Creek Middle?
Falling Creek Middle enrolls approximately 1,443 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Falling Creek Middle serve?
Falling Creek Middle serves grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at Falling Creek Middle?
Approximately 12.6:1 students per teacher at Falling Creek Middle.
What is the student diversity at Falling Creek Middle?
Student demographics at Falling Creek Middle are roughly 6% White, 55% Hispanic, 36% Black, 1% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is Falling Creek Middle in?
Falling Creek Middle is part of Chesterfield County Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.