Public school / Middle
Churchland Middle
Portsmouth, Virginia
- NCES ID
- 510300001241
- District
- Portsmouth City Public Schools
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Churchland Middle is a public middle school in Portsmouth, Virginia, run by Portsmouth City Public Schools. It enrols 890 students — the 11126th largest of 2,163 public schools in Virginia.
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
890
Teachers
60.0
Students per teacher
14.8
Free or reduced-price lunch
99.6%
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.
Within Portsmouth City 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.
- 1Churchland High1,435 students
- 2Manor High1,236 students
- 3I.C. Norcom High1,043 students
- 4Churchland Middle890 students
- 5Churchland Elementary767 students
- 6Waterview Elementary639 students
- 7Cradock Elementary622 students
- 8Simonsdale Elementary612 students
- Enrollment+53.7%
- Teachers+53.8%
- Students per teacher+5.7%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+50.6%
Where this sits
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