James Madison Middle

Set in Roanoke, Virginia, James Madison Middle is a modestly sized intermediate school, part of Roanoke City Public Schools. It caters to 598 students across grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Virginia's public schools average about 750 students each, so James Madison Middle sits 20% leaner than that benchmark.

Roanoke City Public Schools runs 24 schools in total, collectively educating 13,811 students. James Madison Middle is one of those campuses.

Demographically, James Madison Middle reports that 45% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest consists of 34% Black, 9% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Roanoke city as a whole is about 57% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, James Madison Middle logs 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.2:1. The state averages around 13.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, James Madison Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.0%, the actual is 58.0%, a residual of -3.0 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Roanoke city put the typical household earns roughly $55,378 per year, about 30% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Roanoke city runs 30 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,392 students), of which James Madison Middle is one.

Fishburn Park Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, James Madison Middle comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 69.7%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at James Madison Middle has remained close to its prior level, going from 585 students in 2018 to 598 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 52% to 45% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 in 2025.

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