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Tuckahoe Middle
Test scores
SOL 2024-25 . % PassingWhat this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 75 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 60 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Virginia schools, those numbers are about 74 and 73. Reading and writing scores are up about 6 points since 2022, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 74% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 63% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Tuckahoe Middle
Set in Richmond, Virginia, Tuckahoe Middle is a moderately sized 6-8 campus, run under Henrico County Public Schools. It instructs 1,114 students across grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Virginia's public schools average about 750 students each, so Tuckahoe Middle sits 49% bigger than that benchmark.
Tuckahoe Middle is one of 69 schools operated by Henrico County Public Schools, a district that works with 51,044 students overall.
Demographically, Tuckahoe Middle reports that 57% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder consists of 20% Hispanic, 13% Black, 5% multiracial, 5% Asian.
Looking at school resources, Tuckahoe Middle shows 66 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.0:1. The state averages around 13.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 90% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Henrico County's rate of about 67%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Tuckahoe Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 63.5%, the actual is 73.7%, a residual of +10.2 points.
Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Henrico County put the typical household earns roughly $88,783 per year, about 47% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Henrico County runs 84 public schools (combined enrollment of about 51,753 students), of which Tuckahoe Middle is one.
Nearest neighbor: Ridge Elementary, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Tuckahoe Middle comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 66.1%.
The school occupies an outer-ring site.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Tuckahoe Middle has fell 3%, going from 1,150 students in 2018 to 1,114 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 69% to 57% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 18.2:1 in 2018 to 17.0:1 in 2025.
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