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EDITION 2026.08 /8,821 RECORDS / PUBLIC DOMAIN

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Public school / High

Powhatan High

Powhatan, Virginia

NCES ID
510303001268
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Powhatan High is a public high school in Powhatan, Virginia, run by Powhatan County Public Schools. It enrols 1,404 students — the 4306th 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

1,404students

4306th nationally, tied with 4

Teachers

93.0FTE

3180th nationally, tied with 117

Students per teacher

15.1students

48544th nationally, tied with 918

Free or reduced-price lunch

25.4%percent

73182nd nationally, tied with 66

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 Powhatan County 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. 1Powhatan High1,404 students
  2. 2Powhatan Middle969 students
  3. 3Pocahontas Elementary766 students
  4. 4Flat Rock Elementary673 students
  5. 5Powhatan Elementary429 students
Distance from the state median

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

  • Enrollment+142.5%
  • Teachers+138.5%
  • Students per teacher+7.9%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch−61.6%
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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.