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George H. Moody Middle
Test scores
SOL 2024-25 . % PassingWhat this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 83 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 81 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Virginia schools, those numbers are about 74 and 73. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2022, while math scores are up about 4 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 84% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 78% 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 George H. Moody Middle
Located at 7800 Woodman Rd, in Richmond, Virginia, George H. Moody Middle is a moderately sized intermediate school that hosts 1,086 students (grades 6 through 8), part of Henrico County Public Schools. Enrollment runs roughly 45% bigger than the state mean of about 750.
George H. Moody Middle is one of 69 schools operated by Henrico County Public Schools, a district that educates 51,044 students overall.
On demographics, George H. Moody Middle records that the largest single group is Asian at 44%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 21% White, 19% Black, 13% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 9%.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 65 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.1:1, putting George H. Moody Middle higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 36% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Henrico County runs at roughly 67%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.
After controlling for student poverty, George H. Moody Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 78.2%, the actual is 84.4%, a residual of +6.2 points.
In the area at large, the surrounding county (Henrico County) records that median household earnings sit near $88,783, about 47% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Henrico County's 84 public schools (combined enrollment of about 51,753 students), George H. Moody Middle is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Elizabeth Holladay Elementary, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around George H. Moody Middle. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), George H. Moody Middle ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 57.7%.
The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.
Trend over the last 7 years. George H. Moody Middle's enrollment has rose 5% since 2018, when it stood at 1,037 (now 1,086). White enrollment moved from 44% to 21% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 17.7:1 in 2018 to 16.7:1 today.
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