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What's the one class at SENECA RIDGE MIDDLE every student should take?
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Enrollment
862
Middle
DISTRICT 1,057 · STATE 750
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LOUDOUN COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 510225000931
Seneca Ridge Middle
98 Seneca Ridge Dr, Sterling, VA 20164 · (571) 434-4420 · Loudoun County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL862 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 51% of Virginia public middle schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats 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
11.2:1
77 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.0:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
56%
480 students
DISTRICT 31% · 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 | 294 | 34% |
| Grade 7 | 291 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 277 | 32% |
Student demographics
69%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 73% · 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
71.0%
VA avg 74.2% . -1.0pp since 2022
Math
67.0%
VA avg 72.7% . +1.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 71 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 67 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 1 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 1 points.
SOL results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 71.0% | 67.0% |
| 2023-24 | 72.0% | 72.0% |
| 2022-23 | 72.0% | 66.0% |
% Passing, all students and all tested grades.
Source: SOL. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
71.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
72.9%
based on VA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 72% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 73% typical for Virginia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Virginia's top nor bottom 10%.
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 Seneca Ridge Middle
Seneca Ridge Middle's state test result (71.6% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seneca Ridge Middle this school | 862 | 55.7% | 71.6% |
| Jackson Middle Falls Church | 991 | 52.9% | 63.5% |
| Kenmore Middle Arlington | 1,053 | 54.9% | 71.4% |
| River Bend Middle Sterling | 1,137 | 47.1% | 71.5% |
| Shirley C. Heim Middle Stafford | 953 | 54.0% | 54.8% |
| Stone Middle Centreville | 718 | 39.0% | 73.3% |
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 Seneca Ridge Middle ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Virginia | In Loudoun County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 71.6% | #154 of 337 | #14 of 17 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 67.0% | #183 of 342 ▼ 36 | #16 of 18 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 71.0% | #190 of 342 ▼ 26 | #16 of 18 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 862 | #123 of 343 | #15 of 18 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.2:1 | #53 of 327 | #2 of 18 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.1% | #69 of 333 | #4 of 18 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 55.7% | #224 of 340 | #2 of 18 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.6% | #75 of 224 | #9 of 13 |
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
862
-206 (-19%) vs 2020
-4% since 1990-91, when it was 901
Student : Teacher
11.2:1
was 10.9:1
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 | 862 | 77.3 | 11.2:1 | 56% (480) |
| 2023-24 | 868 | 76.7 | 11.3:1 | 50% (430) |
| 2022-23 | 915 | 80.8 | 11.3:1 | 46% (420) |
| 2020-21 | 1,068 | 98 | 10.9:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 1,009 | 80.8 | 12.5:1 | 30% (301) |
| 2015-16 | 1,068 | 83 | 12.9:1 | 26% (283) |
| 2010-11 | 978 | 56 | 17.5:1 | 24% (232) |
| 2000-01 | 1,164 | 76 | 15.3:1 | 9% (101) |
| 1990-91 | 901 | 64 | 14.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Seneca Ridge Middle.
Since 2017-18: students down 15% (1,009 to 862); teachers down 4% (80.8 to 77.3).
About Seneca Ridge Middle
As a mid-sized middle-grades school, Seneca Ridge Middle serves students in Sterling, Virginia. It has an enrollment of 862 students in grades 6 through 8.
Seneca Ridge Middle is part of Loudoun County Public Schools, where 98 schools serve 81,486 students.
The biggest share of students at Seneca Ridge Middle, 42%, is Hispanic. The remaining shares are 33% White, 15% Asian, 6% Black, and 5% multiracial. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Loudoun County's population at about 14%. The diversity index for Seneca Ridge Middle is 69%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Staffing at Seneca Ridge Middle comes to 77.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 11.2:1. Middle schools in Virginia average 13.1:1, 2.0 more students per teacher than here. Seneca Ridge Middle counts 56% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. For comparison, public schools in Loudoun County average 28%.
Seneca Ridge Middle earns a B- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 51% of Virginia public middle schools.
Compared with Virginia schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Seneca Ridge Middle's results are 1.3 points below predicted: 71.6% against 72.9%.
American Community Survey estimates for Loudoun County show that median household income comes to about $181,765, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 65% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 3%. Loudoun County counts 103 public schools with about 81,486 students.
Dominion High, about 0.1 miles away, is the closest public school. Within five miles of Seneca Ridge Middle, there are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 68.4%; Seneca Ridge Middle's is 71.6%, ranking 2nd of 8.
The NCES locale for Seneca Ridge Middle is Suburb: Large, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school's student count fell 19% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years.
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Loudoun County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
432,998
Census ACS
Median income
$181,765
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
65%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
3%
Below federal line
Schools in county
103
81,486 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Loudoun County Public Schools
- Independence HighHigh · 2,166 students
- Lightridge HighHigh · 2,030 students
- Freedom HighHigh · 1,885 students
- Briar Woods HighHigh · 1,862 students
- John Champe HighHigh · 1,851 students
- Riverside HighHigh · 1,710 students
Other schools in Sterling
- Dominion HighCombined · 1,453 students
- Park View HighHigh · 1,409 students
- River Bend MiddleMiddle · 1,137 students
- Sterling MiddleMiddle · 967 students
- Elaine E. Thompson ElementaryElementary · 756 students
- Countryside ElementaryElementary · 648 students
Nearby schools
- Dominion High0.1 mi · 1,453
- W.O. Robey High0.1 mi · 59
- Meadowland Elementary0.5 mi · 403
- Sugarland Elementary0.8 mi · 502
- Rolling Ridge Elementary1.1 mi · 562
- Horizon Elementary1.4 mi · 510
Frequently asked questions
About Seneca Ridge MiddleHow many students attend Seneca Ridge Middle?
Seneca Ridge Middle enrolls approximately 862 students in grades 06-08.
Is Seneca Ridge Middle an elementary, middle, or high school?
Seneca Ridge Middle is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many teachers does Seneca Ridge Middle have?
Seneca Ridge Middle employs 77 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.2:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Seneca Ridge Middle?
At Seneca Ridge Middle, the student body is approximately 33% White, 42% Hispanic, 6% Black, 15% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is Seneca Ridge Middle public or private?
Seneca Ridge Middle is a public K-12 school, overseen by Loudoun County Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.