Poe Middle

Set in Annandale, Virginia, Poe Middle is an average-sized intermediate school, overseen by Fairfax County Public Schools. It teaches 879 students across grades 6 through 8.

Fairfax County Public Schools runs 199 schools in total, collectively educating 179,323 students. Poe Middle is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Poe Middle records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 69% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 12% Asian, 10% White, 7% Black. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 18%.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 74 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.9:1. The state averages around 13.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 77% of students at Poe Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Fairfax County (around 37%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Poe Middle is in the bottom 10% of Virginia public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 67.2%; Poe Middle posts 48.5%, -18.7 points below that line.

Around the school, Fairfax County reports that the typical household earns roughly $153,637 per year, roughly 65% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Poe Middle is one of 222 public schools in Fairfax County (combined enrollment of about 174,475 students).

Nearest neighbor: Columbia Elementary, around 0.8 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Poe Middle comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 67.7%.

Poe Middle operates from a residential location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 890 students in 2018 compared to 879 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 60% to 69%. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 10.8:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 today.

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