Falling Creek Middle

Located at 4780 Hopkins Rd., in North Chesterfield, Virginia, Falling Creek Middle is a large middle school that caters to 1,443 students (grades 6 through 8), overseen by Chesterfield County Public Schools. Enrollment runs roughly 92% above the state mean of about 750.

Within Chesterfield County Public Schools, which oversees 65 schools and 64,194 students, Falling Creek Middle is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Falling Creek Middle logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (55%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 36% Black, 6% White, 3% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 12%.

On the income-and-resources front, Falling Creek Middle reports 115 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.6:1. The state averages about 13.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 76% of students at Falling Creek Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Chesterfield County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Falling Creek Middle falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 67.5%; this one comes in at 39.4%, -28.1 points off the demographic line.

Across the wider county, census data for Chesterfield County shows median household earnings sit near $101,931, about 44% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Chesterfield County's 76 public schools (combined enrollment of about 64,194 students), Falling Creek Middle is one campus in the mix.

Bensley Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Falling Creek Middle. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Falling Creek Middle ranks 8th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 48.2%.

Falling Creek Middle operates from a bedroom-community location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Falling Creek Middle's enrollment has expanded 13% since 2018, when it stood at 1,273 (now 1,443). Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 44% to 55%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.