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If you had an hour of school board time for O. TRENT BONNER MIDDLE, what would you bring up?
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Enrollment
501
Middle
DISTRICT 572 · STATE 750
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DANVILLE CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 510111000394
O. Trent Bonner Middle
300 Apollo Ave, Danville, VA 24540 · (434) 799-6446 · Danville city
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL501 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 19% of Virginia public middle schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
10.5:1
48 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.1:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
86%
432 students
DISTRICT 94% · 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 | 168 | 34% |
| Grade 7 | 165 | 33% |
| Grade 8 | 168 | 34% |
Student demographics
60%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 50% · 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
63.0%
VA avg 74.2% . +15.0pp since 2022
Math
65.0%
VA avg 72.7% . +29.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 63 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 65 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 15 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 29 points.
SOL results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 63.0% | 65.0% |
| 2023-24 | 58.0% | 56.0% |
| 2022-23 | 48.0% | 36.0% |
% 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
57.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
64.6%
based on VA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 57% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 65% 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 O. Trent Bonner Middle
O. Trent Bonner Middle's state test result (57.0% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| O. Trent Bonner Middle this school | 501 | 86.2% | 57.0% |
| Elko Middle Sandston | 695 | 89.2% | 49.8% |
| Addison Aerospace Magnet Middle Roanoke | 540 | 97.2% | 36.3% |
| Bayside Middle Virginia Beach | 628 | 96.3% | 63.4% |
| Sandusky Middle Lynchburg | 583 | 96.9% | 45.5% |
| Thomas Eaton Middle Hampton | 581 | 94.3% | 75.3% |
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 O. Trent Bonner Middle ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Virginia |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 57.0% | #274 of 337 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 65.0% | #194 of 342 ▲ 60 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 63.0% | #259 of 342 ▲ 22 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 501 | #257 of 343 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.5:1 | #34 of 327 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 60.4% | #167 of 333 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 86.2% | #102 of 340 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -24.5% | #18 of 224 |
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
501
-219 (-30%) vs 2020
-32% since 1990-91, when it was 739
Student : Teacher
10.5:1
was 14.1:1
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 | 501 | 47.6 | 10.5:1 | 86% (432) |
| 2023-24 | 573 | 56.8 | 10.1:1 | 95% (544) |
| 2022-23 | 678 | 47.8 | 14.2:1 | 91% (616) |
| 2020-21 | 720 | 51 | 14.1:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 664 | 50 | 13.3:1 | 99% (658) |
| 2015-16 | 659 | 51 | 12.9:1 | 94% (618) |
| 2010-11 | 553 | 35 | 15.8:1 | 65% (362) |
| 2000-01 | 665 | 54 | 12.3:1 | 51% (341) |
| 1990-91 | 739 | 49 | 15.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for O. Trent Bonner Middle.
Since 2017-18: students down 25% (664 to 501); teachers down 5% (50 to 47.6).
About O. Trent Bonner Middle
Students in Danville, Virginia, attend O. Trent Bonner Middle, a low-enrollment middle school. The school had 501 students in grades 6 through 8 in 2024-25. Average enrollment for middle schools in Virginia is about 750, so this school runs 33% smaller than that.
Danville City Public Schools has 5,564 students in 13 schools, and O. Trent Bonner Middle is one of those schools.
Roughly 57% of students at O. Trent Bonner Middle are Black. The rest of enrollment is 19% White, 16% Hispanic, and 5% multiracial. The school's diversity index is 60%, meaning two students picked at random have a 60% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
The count of teachers at O. Trent Bonner Middle is 47.6 full-time equivalents, for a ratio of 10.5:1. That is 2.6 students per teacher below the 13.1:1 average for middle schools in Virginia. Around 86% of the school's students qualify for free or reduced-price meals. That rate is below the 96% average among public schools in Danville city.
allk12 grades O. Trent Bonner Middle a C-. The grade compares the school only with Virginia public middle schools, because each state gives its own test.
Compared with Virginia schools that have similar shares of low-income students, O. Trent Bonner Middle's results are 7.6 points below predicted: 57.0% against 64.6%.
Danville city has about 42,214 residents, and the median household income is $44,423, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 20%, and about 19% of people live in poverty. Besides O. Trent Bonner Middle, Danville city has 19 other public schools.
Westwood Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles away. The five-mile area around O. Trent Bonner Middle holds at least 8 other public schools. O. Trent Bonner Middle's average proficiency of 57.0% compares with 54.0% for its nearest scored neighbors.
NCES lists the school's locale as Town: Distant. That means it sits in a town some distance from an urbanized area.
Over 4 years, O. Trent Bonner Middle's enrollment declined 30%, to 501. By 2024-25, the school had 10.5 students per teacher, compared with 14.1 in 2020-21.
The allk12 site hosts a discussion page for O. Trent Bonner Middle covering things like sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Reviews and ratings from people who know the school are welcome.
Danville city at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
42,214
Census ACS
Median income
$44,423
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
20%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
19%
Below federal line
Schools in county
20
5,564 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Danville City Public Schools
- George Washington HighHigh · 1,248 students
- Westwood MiddleMiddle · 642 students
- G.L.H. Johnson ElementaryElementary · 571 students
- Schoolfield ElementaryElementary · 516 students
- Edwin A. Gibson ElementaryElementary · 466 students
- Woodberry Hills ElementaryElementary · 377 students
Other schools in Danville
- George Washington HighHigh · 1,248 students
- Westwood MiddleMiddle · 642 students
- Twin Springs ElementaryElementary · 618 students
- G.L.H. Johnson ElementaryElementary · 571 students
- Schoolfield ElementaryElementary · 516 students
- Edwin A. Gibson ElementaryElementary · 466 students
Nearby schools
- Westwood Middle0.1 mi · 642
- Woodberry Hills Elementary0.6 mi · 377
- George Washington High0.8 mi · 1,248
- Galileo Magnet High1.4 mi · 260
- Forest Hills Elementary1.4 mi · 200
- The Northside Preschool1.5 mi · 137
Frequently asked questions
About O. Trent Bonner MiddleWhat is the total enrollment at O. Trent Bonner Middle?
O. Trent Bonner Middle enrolls approximately 501 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does O. Trent Bonner Middle serve?
O. Trent Bonner Middle serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many teachers does O. Trent Bonner Middle have?
O. Trent Bonner Middle employs 48 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.5:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at O. Trent Bonner Middle?
At O. Trent Bonner Middle, the student body is approximately 19% White, 16% Hispanic, 57% Black, 2% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees O. Trent Bonner Middle?
O. Trent Bonner Middle is overseen by Danville City Public Schools in Danville city.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.