Prince Edward County High

As an intimate high school in Farmville, Virginia, Prince Edward County High serves 502 students from grades 9 through 12, one of the schools within Prince Edward County Public Schools. That puts it 59% leaner than the typical public school in Virginia, which averages around 1,213 students.

Prince Edward County Public Schools comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,845 students; Prince Edward County High is among them.

Looking at the student body, Prince Edward County High shows that the most-represented group is Black (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 36% White, 5% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. By comparison, Prince Edward County as a whole is about 30% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Prince Edward County High higher than the state norm the norm. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Prince Edward County High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 60.8%, the actual is 62.6%, a residual of +1.9 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Prince Edward County put the typical household earns roughly $56,315 per year, about 27% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Prince Edward County High is one of 5 public schools in Prince Edward County (combined enrollment of about 1,845 students).

Nearest neighbor: Prince Edward Middle, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Prince Edward County High. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Prince Edward County High ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 66.1%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Five-year trend. Prince Edward County High's enrollment has fell 20% since 2018, when it stood at 630 (now 502). The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 10.9:1 in 2018 to 17.9:1 today.

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