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Public school / High

Alleghany High

Covington, Virginia

NCES ID
510015201883
District
Alleghany Highlands Public Schools
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Alleghany High is a public high school in Covington, Virginia, run by Alleghany Highlands Public Schools. It enrols 579 students — the 28695th largest of 2,163 public schools in Virginia.

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Reported figures, 2022–2023

The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.

Enrollment

579students

28695th nationally, tied with 98

Teachers

50.0FTE

15022nd nationally, tied with 725

Students per teacher

11.6students

17656th nationally, tied with 703

Free or reduced-price lunch

83.2%percent

19360th nationally, tied with 86

How these figures are defined

Enrollment

Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.

Teachers

Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.

Students per teacher

Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.

Free or reduced-price lunch

Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.

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Within Alleghany Highlands Public Schools

Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Jeter-Watson Elementary638 students
  2. 2Alleghany High579 students
  3. 3Mountain View Elementary446 students
  4. 4Clifton Middle413 students
  5. 5Covington High339 students
  6. 6Callaghan Elementary268 students
  7. 7Sharon Elementary195 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Virginia median across 2,163 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment0.0%
  • Teachers+28.2%
  • Students per teacher−17.1%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch+25.8%
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Where this sits

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Sources & licence

Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.

Provenance

National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data — school and district directory
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.