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What's something SANDUSKY MIDDLE does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
583
Middle
DISTRICT 544 · STATE 750
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LYNCHBURG CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 510234000967
Sandusky Middle
805 Chinook Place, Lynchburg, VA 24502 · (434) 515-5350 · Lynchburg city
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL583 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 5% of Virginia public middle schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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
13.9:1
42 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.4:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
97%
565 students
DISTRICT 95% · 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 | 213 | 37% |
| Grade 7 | 182 | 31% |
| Grade 8 | 188 | 32% |
Student demographics
62%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 65% · 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
48.0%
VA avg 74.2% . -5.0pp since 2022
Math
36.0%
VA avg 72.7% . +0.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 36 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Virginia schools, those numbers are about 74 and 73. Reading and writing scores are down about 5 points since 2022, while math scores have held steady.
SOL results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 48.0% | 36.0% |
| 2023-24 | 53.0% | 41.0% |
| 2022-23 | 53.0% | 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of VA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
45.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
61.7%
based on VA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-16.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 46% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 62% typical for Virginia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Sandusky Middle
Sandusky Middle's state test result (45.5% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sandusky Middle this school | 583 | 96.9% | 45.5% |
| William E. Waters Middle Portsmouth | 549 | 98.9% | 54.0% |
| Bayside Middle Virginia Beach | 628 | 96.3% | 63.4% |
| Albert Hill Middle Richmond | 505 | 99.8% | 64.3% |
| Paul Laurence Dunbar Middle for Innovation Lynchburg | 531 | 97.2% | 57.5% |
| 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 Sandusky Middle ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Virginia |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 45.5% | #324 of 337 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 36.0% | #330 of 342 ▼ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 48.0% | #327 of 342 ▼ 15 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 583 | #222 of 343 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.9:1 | #208 of 327 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.3% | #156 of 333 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 96.9% | #59 of 340 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +3.7% | #80 of 99 |
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
583
+18 (+3%) vs 2020
-22% since 1990-91, when it was 748
Student : Teacher
13.9:1
was 12.8:1
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 | 583 | 42 | 13.9:1 | 97% (565) |
| 2023-24 | 543 | 47.3 | 11.5:1 | 94% (510) |
| 2022-23 | 568 | 40.3 | 14.1:1 | 96% (543) |
| 2020-21 | 565 | 44 | 12.8:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 562 | 50.3 | 11.2:1 | 90% (504) |
| 2015-16 | 555 | 53 | 10.5:1 | 70% (386) |
| 2010-11 | 564 | 38 | 14.8:1 | 63% (358) |
| 2000-01 | 663 | 54 | 12.3:1 | 41% (275) |
| 1990-91 | 748 | 46 | 16.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Sandusky Middle.
Since 2017-18: students up 4% (562 to 583); teachers down 16% (50.3 to 42).
About Sandusky Middle
Sandusky Middle is a low-enrollment middle school. Its address is in Lynchburg, Virginia. The school's enrollment of 583 students covers grades 6 through 8. Enrollment is 22% lower than the average for middle schools in Virginia, which is about 750.
Sandusky Middle is run by Lynchburg City Public Schools, whose 16 schools enroll 7,657 students.
Roughly 55% of students at Sandusky Middle are Black. The rest of enrollment is 22% White, 11% multiracial, and 9% Hispanic. Among all residents of Lynchburg city, the Black share is about 27%. Sandusky Middle's diversity index is 62%, against a US figure of 70%.
The teaching staff at Sandusky Middle is 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the ratio is 13.9:1. The school has more students per teacher than the 13.1:1 average for middle schools in Virginia. About 97% of students, or 565, qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That tracks the 95% average for public schools in Lynchburg city.
Sandusky Middle is graded D by allk12, scoring above 5% of Virginia public middle schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Given its lunch-eligibility share, the predicted average proficiency rate on state tests for Sandusky Middle is 61.7%. It actually posts 45.5%, which is 16.2 points lower and in the bottom 10% of Virginia schools.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Lynchburg city show that the median household income is $57,947, about 39% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 12%. Besides Sandusky Middle, Lynchburg city has 23 other public schools.
The nearest other public school, Sandusky Elementary, is about 0.1 miles away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Among the 9 closest schools with test data, this one included, Sandusky Middle ranks 7th on average proficiency.
Sandusky Middle is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000, a location NCES labels City: Small.
The school enrolled 583 students in 2024-25, 18 more than the 565 it had in 2020-21. There were more students per teacher in 2024-25 (13.9:1) than in 2020-21 (12.8:1).
The Sandusky Middle community page is open for posts about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Lynchburg city at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
79,497
Census ACS
Median income
$57,947
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
24
7,657 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Lynchburg City Public Schools
- E.C. Glass HighHigh · 1,220 students
- Heritage HighHigh · 1,113 students
- Paul Laurence Dunbar Middle for InnovationMiddle · 531 students
- Linkhorne MiddleMiddle · 519 students
- Heritage ElementaryElementary · 448 students
- Sheffield ElementaryElementary · 443 students
Other schools in Lynchburg
- E.C. Glass HighHigh · 1,220 students
- Heritage HighHigh · 1,113 students
- Brookville HighHigh · 1,017 students
- Tomahawk ElementaryElementary · 667 students
- Brookville MiddleMiddle · 648 students
- Leesville Road ElementaryElementary · 646 students
Other Sandusky Middle schools
One other US public school is named Sandusky Middle. Sandusky Middle is the largest of the 2.
- Sandusky Middle SchoolSandusky, OH · 418 students
Nearby schools
- Sandusky Elementary0.1 mi · 316
- Perrymont Elementary1.0 mi · 377
- Sheffield Elementary1.2 mi · 443
- Heritage High1.2 mi · 1,113
- Heritage Elementary1.2 mi · 448
- T.C. Miller Elementary School for Innovation2.3 mi · 168
Frequently asked questions
About Sandusky MiddleWhat is the total enrollment at Sandusky Middle?
Sandusky Middle enrolls approximately 583 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Sandusky Middle serve?
Sandusky Middle serves grades 06-08.
How many teachers does Sandusky Middle have?
Sandusky Middle employs 42 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.9:1.
What is the student diversity at Sandusky Middle?
Student demographics at Sandusky Middle are roughly 22% White, 9% Hispanic, 55% Black, 2% Asian, 11% Two or more.
What district is Sandusky Middle in?
Sandusky Middle is part of Lynchburg City Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.