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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the UNITY BRAXTON MIDDLE administration to hear?
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Enrollment
1,055
Middle
DISTRICT 1,150 · STATE 750
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 510313001322
Unity Braxton Middle
10100 Lomond Dr, Manassas, VA 20109 · (703) 361-3185 · Prince William County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,055 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 15% of Virginia public middle schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
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
13.2:1
80 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
69%
730 students
DISTRICT 57% · 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 | 361 | 34% |
| Grade 7 | 360 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 334 | 32% |
Student demographics
50%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 74% · 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
55.0%
VA avg 74.2% . +7.0pp since 2022
Math
50.0%
VA avg 72.7% . +12.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 55 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 50 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 7 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 12 points.
SOL results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 55.0% | 50.0% |
| 2023-24 | 54.0% | 46.0% |
| 2022-23 | 48.0% | 38.0% |
% 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
57.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
69.3%
based on VA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-11.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 58% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 69% 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 Unity Braxton Middle
Unity Braxton Middle's state test result (57.9% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unity Braxton Middle this school | 1,055 | 69.2% | 57.9% |
| Poe Middle Annandale | 879 | 76.8% | 48.5% |
| Grace E. Metz Middle Manassas | 1,111 | 77.8% | 47.8% |
| George M. Hampton Middle Woodbridge | 893 | 69.8% | 61.8% |
| Fred M. Lynn Middle Woodbridge | 973 | 68.7% | 59.8% |
| Mayfield Intermediate Manassas | 839 | 78.8% | 59.8% |
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 Unity Braxton Middle ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Virginia | In Prince William County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 57.9% | #267 of 337 | #17 of 17 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 50.0% | #301 of 342 ▲ 7 | #17 of 17 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 55.0% | #313 of 342 ▼ 8 | #17 of 17 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,055 | #66 of 343 | #12 of 17 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.2:1 | #167 of 327 | #5 of 17 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 50.4% | #224 of 333 | #17 of 17 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 69.2% | #188 of 340 | #9 of 17 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -5.6% | #174 of 224 | #9 of 11 |
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
1,055
-70 (-6%) vs 2020
+46% since 1990-91, when it was 725
Student : Teacher
13.2:1
was 15.4:1
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 | 1,055 | 79.9 | 13.2:1 | 69% (730) |
| 2023-24 | 1,026 | 76.2 | 13.5:1 | 76% (780) |
| 2022-23 | 1,116 | 77 | 14.5:1 | 72% (809) |
| 2020-21 | 1,125 | 73 | 15.4:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 1,117 | 73.4 | 15.2:1 | 72% (802) |
| 2015-16 | 1,178 | 73 | 16.1:1 | 65% (765) |
| 2010-11 | 1,116 | 59 | 18.9:1 | 53% (588) |
| 2000-01 | 1,028 | 67 | 15.3:1 | 26% (272) |
| 1990-91 | 725 | 51 | 14.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Unity Braxton Middle.
Since 2017-18: students down 6% (1,117 to 1,055); teachers up 9% (73.4 to 79.9).
About Unity Braxton Middle
Unity Braxton Middle is a mid-sized middle school in Manassas, Virginia, (ZIP code 20109). In all, 1,055 students attend the school in grades 6 through 8. That is 41% above the average of about 750 students for middle schools in Virginia.
Unity Braxton Middle is one of 95 schools in Prince William County Public Schools, which enrolls 90,242 students in total.
More than half of enrollment at Unity Braxton Middle is Hispanic: 69%. The remaining shares are 10% Black, 9% White, 9% Asian, and 3% multiracial. Prince William County as a whole is about 26% Hispanic, so the school's share is higher. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Unity Braxton Middle scores 50%.
On staff are 79.9 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 13.2:1. The average ratio among middle schools in Virginia is similar, at 13.1:1. Unity Braxton Middle has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 69%. Public schools in Prince William County average 55%.
Among Virginia public middle schools, Unity Braxton Middle outscored 15%, which works out to a C- on the allk12 Grade.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate across its state test results with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For Unity Braxton Middle, the prediction is 69.3% and the result is 57.9%.
For Prince William County, Census Bureau data show median household income comes to about $131,402, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 45%, and about 5% of people live in poverty. There are 102 public schools in the county, enrolling about 89,591, Unity Braxton Middle among them.
C.A. Sinclair Elementary is about 0.3 miles away, making it the nearest public school. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Nearby schools average 62.4% on proficiency, and Unity Braxton Middle is below that at 57.9%.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Suburb: Large, meaning it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
A 6% decline took enrollment from 1,125 in 2020-21 to 1,055 in 2024-25. Federal data show the ratio falling from 15.4:1 to 13.2:1.
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Prince William County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
488,880
Census ACS
Median income
$131,402
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
45%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
102
89,591 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Prince William County Public Schools
- Charles J. Colgan Sr. HighHigh · 2,956 students
- Woodbridge HighHigh · 2,898 students
- Osbourn Park HighHigh · 2,661 students
- Gainesville HighHigh · 2,648 students
- Gar-Field HighHigh · 2,524 students
- Forest Park HighHigh · 2,343 students
Other schools in Manassas
- Charles J. Colgan Sr. HighHigh · 2,956 students
- Osbourn Park HighHigh · 2,661 students
- Osbourn HighHigh · 2,301 students
- Unity Reed HighHigh · 2,042 students
- Parkside MiddleMiddle · 1,352 students
- Louise A. Benton MiddleMiddle · 1,339 students
Nearby schools
- C.A. Sinclair Elementary0.3 mi · 636
- West Gate Elementary0.3 mi · 482
- Innovation Elementary1.0 mi · 565
- Sudley Elementary1.0 mi · 623
- Loch Lomond Elementary1.3 mi · 480
- Suella G. Ellis Elementary1.3 mi · 403
Frequently asked questions
About Unity Braxton MiddleHow large is Unity Braxton Middle?
Unity Braxton Middle enrolls approximately 1,055 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Unity Braxton Middle serve?
Unity Braxton Middle serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Unity Braxton Middle?
Approximately 13.2:1 students per teacher at Unity Braxton Middle.
What is the student diversity at Unity Braxton Middle?
Student demographics at Unity Braxton Middle are roughly 9% White, 69% Hispanic, 10% Black, 9% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is Unity Braxton Middle in?
Unity Braxton Middle is part of Prince William County Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.