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EDITION 2026.08 /8,821 RECORDS / PUBLIC DOMAIN

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Public school / Middle

Linkhorne Middle

Lynchburg, Virginia

NCES ID
510234000962
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Linkhorne Middle is a public middle school in Lynchburg, Virginia, run by Lynchburg City Public Schools. It enrols 586 students — the 28031st 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

586students

28031st nationally, tied with 93

Teachers

38.0FTE

27495th nationally, tied with 1,521

Students per teacher

15.4students

51310th nationally, tied with 952

Free or reduced-price lunch

95.4%percent

8525th nationally, tied with 60

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 Lynchburg 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.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1E.C. Glass High1,325 students
  2. 2Heritage High1,073 students
  3. 3Linkhorne Middle586 students
  4. 4Sandusky Middle568 students
  5. 5Paul Laurence Dunbar Middle for Innovation531 students
  6. 6Heritage Elementary475 students
  7. 7Robert S. Payne Elementary460 students
  8. 8Sheffield Elementary445 students
Distance from the state median

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

  • Enrollment+1.2%
  • Teachers−2.6%
  • Students per teacher+10.0%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch+44.2%
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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.