Tunstall Middle

Tunstall Middle operates as a close-knit 6-8 campus in Dry Fork, Virginia, overseen by Pittsylvania County Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 609 students spanning grades 6 through 8.

Within Pittsylvania County Public Schools, which oversees 18 schools and 7,830 students, Tunstall Middle is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Tunstall Middle reports that White students make up the majority at 70%; the rest looks like 15% Black, 11% Hispanic, 3% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Tunstall Middle has 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.7:1. The state averages around 13.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 86% of students at Tunstall 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, Tunstall Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 64.7%, the actual is 76.8%, a residual of +12.1 points.

In the broader community, Pittsylvania County reports that median household income runs about $54,085, 16% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Tunstall Middle is one of 22 public schools in Pittsylvania County (combined enrollment of about 7,830 students).

The closest other public school is Tunstall High, roughly 0.2 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Tunstall Middle comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 76.1%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Tunstall Middle has contracted 9%, going from 668 students in 2018 to 609 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 76% to 70% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.2:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 today.

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