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Alumni: what's one memory from LAKE RIDGE MIDDLE that still sticks with you?
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Enrollment
1,487
Middle
DISTRICT 1,150 · STATE 750
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 510313002158
Lake Ridge Middle
12350 Mohican Rd, Woodbridge, VA 22192 · (703) 494-5154 · Prince William County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,487 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 81% of Virginia public middle schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Virginia public middle schools
Student : Teacher
16.1:1
92 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
69%
1,031 students
DISTRICT 57% · STATE 66%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 530 | 36% |
| Grade 7 | 499 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 458 | 31% |
Student demographics
76%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 74% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
SOL 2024-25 . % PassingEnglish Language Arts
82.0%
VA avg 74.2% . +6.0pp since 2022
Math
73.0%
VA avg 72.7% . -3.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 82 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 73 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Virginia schools, those numbers are about 74 and 73. Reading and writing scores are up about 6 points since 2022, while math scores are down about 3 points.
SOL results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 82.0% | 73.0% |
| 2023-24 | 79.0% | 69.0% |
| 2022-23 | 76.0% | 76.0% |
% Passing, all students and all tested grades.
Source: SOL. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
78.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
69.2%
based on VA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+9.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 78% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 69% typical for Virginia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Virginia's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Lake Ridge Middle
Lake Ridge Middle's state test result (78.4% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lake Ridge Middle this school | 1,487 | 69.3% | 78.4% |
| Herbert J. Saunders Middle Manassas | 1,198 | 69.5% | 80.0% |
| Elizabeth Davis Middle Chester | 1,364 | 75.3% | 72.8% |
| Spotsylvania Middle Spotsylvania | 1,009 | 65.2% | 66.5% |
| Larkspur Middle Virginia Beach | 1,488 | 76.3% | 71.0% |
| Francis C. Hammond Middle Alexandria | 1,597 | 83.8% | 50.0% |
Matched among Virginia middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Lake Ridge Middle ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Virginia | In Prince William County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 78.4% | #84 of 337 | #6 of 17 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 73.0% | #139 of 342 ▲ 29 | #7 of 17 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 82.0% | #76 of 342 ▲ 17 | #6 of 17 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,487 | #7 of 343 | #1 of 17 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.1:1 | #297 of 327 | #15 of 17 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 75.7% | #4 of 333 | #1 of 17 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 69.3% | #186 of 340 | #7 of 17 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +16.4% | #28 of 99 | N/A |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,487
+4 (+0%) vs 2020
+35% since 1990-91, when it was 1,104
Student : Teacher
16.1:1
was 17.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 1,487 | 92.4 | 16.1:1 | 69% (1,031) |
| 2023-24 | 1,404 | 87 | 16.1:1 | 44% (614) |
| 2022-23 | 1,368 | 84.8 | 16.1:1 | 39% (539) |
| 2020-21 | 1,483 | 87 | 17.1:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 1,277 | 77.7 | 16.4:1 | 35% (453) |
| 2015-16 | 1,229 | 72 | 17.1:1 | 32% (397) |
| 2010-11 | 1,250 | 59 | 21.2:1 | 28% (344) |
| 2000-01 | 1,086 | 69 | 15.7:1 | 11% (120) |
| 1990-91 | 1,104 | 66 | 16.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lake Ridge Middle.
Since 2017-18: students up 16% (1,277 to 1,487); teachers up 19% (77.7 to 92.4).
About Lake Ridge Middle
Lake Ridge Middle, a high-enrollment middle-grades school, is located in Woodbridge, Virginia. It enrolled 1,487 students in grades 6 through 8 for the 2024-25 school year. Statewide, middle schools in Virginia average about 750 students each.
The district, Prince William County Public Schools, has 90,242 students enrolled across 95 schools.
Hispanic students are the largest group at Lake Ridge Middle, with 31% of enrollment. Smaller groups are 29% White, 21% Black, 10% Asian, and 9% multiracial. The chance that two students picked at random at Lake Ridge Middle belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 76%.
Federal staffing data show 92.4 full-time-equivalent teachers at Lake Ridge Middle and a ratio of 16.1:1. The average ratio among middle schools in Virginia is 13.1:1, lower than at this school. The count of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch equals 69% of enrollment. The gap from the 55% average for public schools in Prince William County is 14 points.
Measured against Virginia public middle schools, Lake Ridge Middle receives an A-. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
On BeatsExpectations, Lake Ridge Middle is 9.2 points above its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of Virginia schools.
Prince William County has about 488,880 residents, and median household income is about $131,402, 45% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of people live in poverty. The public schools of Prince William County number 102 and enroll about 89,591.
Of nearby public schools, Old Bridge Elementary is the closest, at about 0.3 miles. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Of 9 schools in the immediate area with test results, Lake Ridge Middle ranks 3rd on average proficiency.
Lake Ridge Middle falls in the Suburb: Large locale category, used for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment was essentially flat over 4 years: 1,483 in 2020-21, 1,487 in 2024-25.
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Prince William County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
488,880
Census ACS
Median income
$131,402
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
45%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
102
89,591 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Prince William County Public Schools
- Charles J. Colgan Sr. HighHigh · 2,956 students
- Woodbridge HighHigh · 2,898 students
- Osbourn Park HighHigh · 2,661 students
- Gainesville HighHigh · 2,648 students
- Gar-Field HighHigh · 2,524 students
- Forest Park HighHigh · 2,343 students
Other schools in Woodbridge
- Woodbridge HighHigh · 2,898 students
- Gar-Field HighHigh · 2,524 students
- Forest Park HighHigh · 2,343 students
- Freedom HighHigh · 2,303 students
- C.D. Hylton HighHigh · 1,859 students
- Rippon MiddleMiddle · 1,200 students
Nearby schools
- Old Bridge Elementary0.3 mi · 505
- Woodbridge High0.3 mi · 2,898
- Antietam Elementary0.7 mi · 752
- Lake Ridge Elementary0.8 mi · 671
- Springwoods Elementary1.1 mi · 842
- Rockledge Elementary1.6 mi · 495
Frequently asked questions
About Lake Ridge MiddleWhat is the total enrollment at Lake Ridge Middle?
Lake Ridge Middle enrolls approximately 1,487 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Lake Ridge Middle serve?
Lake Ridge Middle serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many teachers does Lake Ridge Middle have?
Lake Ridge Middle employs 92 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.1:1.
How diverse is Lake Ridge Middle?
Lake Ridge Middle reports a student body of 29% White, 31% Hispanic, 21% Black, 10% Asian, 9% Two or more.
What district is Lake Ridge Middle in?
Lake Ridge Middle is part of Prince William County Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.