Leslie H. Walton Middle

Leslie H. Walton Middle is one of the close-knit middle schools in Charlottesville, Virginia, run under Albemarle County Public Schools, with 339 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. That puts it 55% below the typical public school in Virginia, which averages around 750 students.

Albemarle County Public Schools comprises 24 schools with combined enrollment of 14,149 students; Leslie H. Walton Middle is among them.

On the student-mix side, Leslie H. Walton Middle records that the largest single group is White, at 70% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school reports 13% Hispanic, 9% Black, 6% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, Leslie H. Walton Middle shows 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.3:1. The state averages around 13.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 57% of students at Leslie H. Walton Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Albemarle County runs at roughly 37%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Leslie H. Walton Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 72.6%, the actual is 68.3%, a residual of -4.3 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Albemarle County shows the typical household earns roughly $104,392 per year, about 61% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Leslie H. Walton Middle is one of 26 public schools in Albemarle County (combined enrollment of about 13,438 students).

Nearest neighbor: Red Hill Elementary, around 5.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Leslie H. Walton Middle comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 60.0%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Five-year trend. Leslie H. Walton Middle's enrollment has shrank 3% since 2018, when it stood at 351 (now 339).

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