Lylburn Downing Middle

Located at 302 Diamond St, in Lexington, Virginia, Lylburn Downing Middle is an one-room-style intermediate school that educates 187 students (grades 6 through 8), overseen by Lexington City Public Schools. By comparison, Virginia's public schools average about 750 students each, so Lylburn Downing Middle sits 75% smaller than that benchmark.

Lylburn Downing Middle is one of 2 schools operated by Lexington City Public Schools, a district that caters to 537 students overall.

Demographically, Lylburn Downing Middle lists that 81% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 8% Hispanic, 6% Black, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 31% of students at Lylburn Downing Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Lexington city runs at roughly 61%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Lylburn Downing Middle sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 79.7%; this one delivers 86.0%.

Zooming out to the county, Lexington city reports that median household income runs about $84,517, roughly 51% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Lylburn Downing Middle is one of 4 public schools in Lexington city (combined enrollment of about 1,484 students).

Central Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Lylburn Downing Middle comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 75.3%.

Lylburn Downing Middle operates from a town-based location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 7%: 202 students in 2018 compared to 187 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share decreased from 10% to 6%.

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