Prince Edward Middle

Prince Edward Middle is a low-enrollment middle school in Farmville, Virginia, one of the schools within Prince Edward County Public Schools. The school serves 520 students in grades 5 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 31% smaller than the state mean of about 750.

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

Looking at the student body, Prince Edward Middle records that 61% of the student body identifies as Black; the rest looks like 28% White, 5% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 2% Asian. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 30%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.0:1. The state averages about 13.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 102% of students at Prince Edward Middle qualify 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 Middle sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 60.4%; this one delivers 51.1%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Prince Edward County indicate the typical household earns roughly $56,315 per year, 27% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Prince Edward County's 5 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,845 students), Prince Edward Middle is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Prince Edward Elementary, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Prince Edward Middle. On composite proficiency, Prince Edward Middle comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 67.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Prince Edward Middle has contracted 12%, going from 593 students in 2018 to 520 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 35% to 28%. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 10.8:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 today.

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