Fluvanna County High

Fluvanna County High is a reasonably sized four-year high school in Palmyra, Virginia, run under Fluvanna County Public Schools. The school educates 1,362 students in grades 8 through 12.

Fluvanna County High is one of 4 schools operated by Fluvanna County Public Schools, a district that serves 3,315 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Fluvanna County High records that 67% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 14% Black, 9% Hispanic, 9% multiracial. By comparison, Fluvanna County as a whole is about 76% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 96 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.2:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 60% of students at Fluvanna County High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Fluvanna County High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 71.7%, the actual is 70.0%, a residual of -1.7 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Fluvanna County) reports that median household earnings sit near $96,768, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Fluvanna County's 6 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,315 students), Fluvanna County High is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Fluvanna Middle, around 3.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Fluvanna County High comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 67.4%.

Fluvanna County High operates from an outlying location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Fluvanna County High has shrank 6%, going from 1,444 students in 2018 to 1,362 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 74% to 67% over that span.

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