Honaker High

Set in Honaker, Virginia, Honaker High is a rural-scale senior high, overseen by Russell County Public Schools. It caters to 422 students across grades 8 through 12. That puts it 65% leaner than the typical public school in Virginia, which averages around 1,213 students.

Russell County Public Schools runs 11 schools in total, collectively educating 3,583 students. Honaker High is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Honaker High lists that 98% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.2:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 89% of students at Honaker High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, Honaker High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 63.8%, the actual is 74.1%, a residual of +10.3 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Russell County put median household earnings sit near $50,012, 13% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Russell County's 14 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,583 students), Honaker High is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Honaker Elementary, around 1.8 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Honaker High comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 75.6%.

Honaker High operates from a small-town location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Honaker High has decreased 4%, going from 439 students in 2018 to 422 in 2025.

On this page, members of the Honaker High community share and discuss enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.