Huguenot High

Huguenot High is an average-sized 9-12 campus in Richmond, Virginia, part of Richmond City Public Schools. The school enrolls 1,469 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 21% above the state mean of about 1,213.

Within Richmond City Public Schools, which oversees 47 schools and 20,962 students, Huguenot High is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Huguenot High reports that the most-represented group is Black (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school logs 38% Hispanic, 6% White. By comparison, Richmond city as a whole is about 41% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 110 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.3:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 94% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Huguenot High tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 62.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 58.5%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Richmond city indicate the typical household earns roughly $64,587 per year, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Huguenot High is one of 61 public schools in Richmond city (combined enrollment of about 20,253 students).

Crestwood Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Huguenot High comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 51.7%.

Huguenot High operates from an urban location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Huguenot High's enrollment has rose 9% since 2018, when it stood at 1,349 (now 1,469). Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 25% to 38%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 in 2025.

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