Rappahannock County High

Rappahannock County High is one of the micro-enrollment senior highs in Washington, Virginia, operated by Rappahannock County Public Schools, with 316 students on its rolls from grades 8 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 74% smaller than the state mean of about 1,213.

Across the 2 schools in Rappahannock County Public Schools (773 students total), Rappahannock County High accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Rappahannock County High reports that 81% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest comes out to 12% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Rappahannock County High tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 53% of students at Rappahannock County High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Rappahannock County High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 73.7%, the actual is 66.7%, a residual of -7.0 points.

Around the school, Rappahannock County reports that median household income runs about $83,380, roughly 33% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Rappahannock County High is one of 2 public schools in Rappahannock County (combined enrollment of about 773 students).

Rappahannock County Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Rappahannock County High ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 68.0%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 12%: 359 students in 2018 compared to 316 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 87% to 81%.

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