Thornburg Middle

Thornburg Middle is one of the mid-tier intermediate schools in Spotsylvania, Virginia, one of the schools within Spotsylvania County Public Schools, with 755 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8.

Thornburg Middle is one of 29 schools operated by Spotsylvania County Public Schools, a district that caters to 24,036 students overall.

On demographics, Thornburg Middle records that the most-represented group is White (36%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder reads as 26% Black, 24% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Spotsylvania County as a whole is about 63% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 56 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.4:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 65% of students at Thornburg Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Thornburg Middle falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 70.5%; this one comes in at 54.1%, -16.3 points off the demographic line.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Spotsylvania County put median household income runs about $112,738, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Spotsylvania County runs 34 public schools (combined enrollment of about 24,036 students), of which Thornburg Middle is one.

Riverview Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Thornburg Middle comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 67.7%.

Thornburg Middle operates from a small-town location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 6%: 713 students in 2018 compared to 755 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 57% to 36% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 in 2025.

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