Luray Middle

Set in Luray, Virginia, Luray Middle is a close-knit middle school, overseen by Page County Public Schools. It educates 315 students across grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Virginia's public schools average about 750 students each, so Luray Middle sits 58% below that benchmark.

Page County Public Schools comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 2,928 students; Luray Middle is among them.

On the student-mix side, Luray Middle logs that 87% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder comes out to 5% multiracial, 4% Black, 3% Hispanic.

On the resource side, Luray Middle shows 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.0:1. The state averages around 13.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 98% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Page County runs at roughly 86%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Luray Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.3%, the actual is 74.5%, a residual of +13.2 points.

In the surrounding community, Page County reports that the typical household earns roughly $57,037 per year, about 15% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Luray Middle is one of 9 public schools in Page County (combined enrollment of about 2,928 students).

The closest other public school is Luray Elementary, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Luray Middle. On composite proficiency, Luray Middle comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 74.1%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Luray Middle's enrollment has shrank 15% since 2018, when it stood at 371 (now 315). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.5:1 in 2018 to 11.0:1 today.

On this page, members of the Luray Middle community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.