King's Fork Middle

King's Fork Middle operates as a mid-tier middle school in Suffolk, Virginia, part of Suffolk City Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 986 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 750 students per school, that is 31% bigger than typical.

Within Suffolk City Public Schools, which oversees 19 schools and 14,565 students, King's Fork Middle is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, King's Fork Middle shows that the largest single group is Black, at 68% of enrollment. Other groups include 17% White, 8% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 42%.

On the resource side, King's Fork Middle shows 72 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 69% of students at King's Fork Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, King's Fork Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 69.4%, the actual is 55.5%, a residual of -13.9 points.

In the broader community, census data for Suffolk city shows the typical household earns roughly $92,666 per year, about 33% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Suffolk city's 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,565 students), King's Fork Middle is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: King's Fork High, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around King's Fork Middle. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), King's Fork Middle ranks 9th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 67.1%.

King's Fork Middle operates from a rural location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 1,003 students in 2018 compared to 986 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 23% to 17% over that span.

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