Thomas C. Boushall Middle

Thomas C. Boushall Middle is a 6-8 campus of tight-knit scale in Richmond, Virginia, overseen by Richmond City Public Schools, hosting 621 students in grades 6 through 8.

Thomas C. Boushall Middle is one of 47 schools operated by Richmond City Public Schools, a district that hosts 20,962 students overall.

On demographics, Thomas C. Boushall Middle logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (50%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest is composed of 47% Black. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 11%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 62 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. About 99% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Thomas C. Boushall Middle sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 61.0%; actual is 45.5%, a gap of -15.6 points.

In the area at large, Richmond city reports that median household earnings sit near $64,587, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. In all, Richmond city runs 61 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,253 students), of which Thomas C. Boushall Middle is one.

Broad Rock Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Thomas C. Boushall Middle comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 44.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Five-year trend. Thomas C. Boushall Middle's enrollment has contracted 15% since 2018, when it stood at 732 (now 621). The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 43% to 50% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 11.5:1 in 2018 to 10.1:1 in 2025.

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