Gainesville Middle

Gainesville Middle is one of the roomy junior highs in Gainesville, Virginia, run under Prince William County Public Schools, with 1,403 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 87% bigger than the state mean of about 750.

Prince William County Public Schools comprises 95 schools with combined enrollment of 90,242 students; Gainesville Middle is among them.

Demographically, Gainesville Middle reports that the largest single group is White at 45%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school lists 18% Asian, 17% Hispanic, 11% Black, 9% multiracial. Compared to Prince William County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, The school employs 88 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.1:1, putting Gainesville Middle higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 25% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Prince William County's rate of about 55%.

With demographic context factored in, Gainesville Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 81.4%, the actual is 84.8%, a residual of +3.3 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Prince William County shows median household earnings sit near $131,402, about 45% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Gainesville Middle is one of 102 public schools in Prince William County (combined enrollment of about 89,591 students).

The closest other public school is Gainesville High, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Gainesville Middle ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 81.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Five-year trend. Gainesville Middle's enrollment has shrank 3% since 2018, when it stood at 1,440 (now 1,403). Over the same period, the White share fell from 49% to 45%.

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