Meadowbrook High

Meadowbrook High is one of the large secondary schools in North Chesterfield, Virginia, one of the schools within Chesterfield County Public Schools, with 1,953 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Virginia's public schools average about 1,213 students each, so Meadowbrook High sits 61% larger than that benchmark.

Chesterfield County Public Schools comprises 65 schools with combined enrollment of 64,194 students; Meadowbrook High is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Meadowbrook High logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 52%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder reads as 38% Black, 6% White, 2% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 12%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 148 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.2:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 74% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Chesterfield County's rate of about 54%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Meadowbrook High falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 68.0%; this one comes in at 51.3%, -16.8 points off the demographic line.

In the surrounding community, census data for Chesterfield County shows median household income runs about $101,931, 44% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Chesterfield County's 76 public schools (combined enrollment of about 64,194 students), Meadowbrook High is one campus in the mix.

Hopkins Road Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Meadowbrook High. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Meadowbrook High ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 46.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Meadowbrook High has rose 8%, going from 1,801 students in 2018 to 1,953 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 40% to 52% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 today.

Inside the community feed, the feed for Meadowbrook High typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.