Thomas H. Henderson Middle

Thomas H. Henderson Middle is a close-knit junior high in Richmond, Virginia, one of the schools within Richmond City Public Schools. The school hosts 430 students in grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 750 students per school, that is 43% leaner than typical.

Across the 47 schools in Richmond City Public Schools (20,962 students total), Thomas H. Henderson Middle accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Thomas H. Henderson Middle logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (80%); the rest looks like 11% White, 4% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Richmond city as a whole is about 41% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. Roughly 99% of students at Thomas H. Henderson Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Thomas H. Henderson Middle is in the bottom 10% of Virginia public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 61.3%; Thomas H. Henderson Middle posts 44.1%, -17.1 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Richmond city) records that median household income runs about $64,587, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Across Richmond city's 61 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,253 students), Thomas H. Henderson Middle is one campus in the mix.

Richmond Virtual Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Thomas H. Henderson Middle ranks 4th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 50.9%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Thomas H. Henderson Middle has remained close to its prior level, going from 420 students in 2018 to 430 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share declined from 95% to 80%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 10.4:1 in 2018 to 9.0:1 in 2025.

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