County / FIPS 51009
Amherst County
Virginia
Amherst County runs 10 public schools reporting to NCES. No Medicare-certified hospital reports to CMS from here — a real finding about rural healthcare access, not a gap in this site; Virginia has other facilities nearby.
At a glance
Public schools
10
Hospitals
0
With a star rating
0
Land area
474
Federal money
Obligations recorded against a place of performance in Amherst County. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.
Obligations, FY2025
$256.2M
Per resident
$8,183
Change since FY2021
−5%
Fiscal years covered
5
▸ View as table
| Period | Obligations |
|---|---|
| 2021 | $269M |
| 2022 | $206M |
| 2023 | $222M |
| 2024 | $234M |
| 2025 | $256M |
Figures are nominal — not adjusted for inflation — because USAspending publishes them that way and adjusting them here would mean this site had edited a government figure. The per-resident figure divides by the 2020 decennial count, which is the population USAspending carries; a 2020 denominator against 2025 spending overstates per-head figures wherever a place has grown since. Amherst County ranks 1401st of 3,233 on this measure in FY2025.
Public schools in Amherst County
Enrollment is the most recent year NCES published.
| School | District | City | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amelon Elementary | Amherst County Public Schools | Madison Heights | 438 |
| Amherst County High | Amherst County Public Schools | Amherst | 1,260 |
| Amherst Elementary | Amherst County Public Schools | Amherst | 260 |
| Amherst Middle | Amherst County Public Schools | Amherst | 347 |
| Central Elementary | Amherst County Public Schools | Amherst | 318 |
| Elon Elementary | Amherst County Public Schools | Madison Heights | 341 |
| Madison Heights Elementary | Amherst County Public Schools | Madison Heights | 418 |
| Monelison Middle | Amherst County Public Schools | Madison Heights | 513 |
| Temperance Elementary | Amherst County Public Schools | Amherst | 92 |
| Central Va. Training Ctr. | Central Virginia Training Center | Lynchburg | — |