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Public school

Rising Star Early Childhood Education Center at Melchers

Fredericksburg, Virginia

NCES ID
510366003069
District
Stafford County Public Schools
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Rising Star Early Childhood Education Center at Melchers is a public school in Fredericksburg, Virginia, run by Stafford County Public Schools. It enrols 305 students — the 64935th 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

305students

64935th nationally, tied with 112

Teachers

31.0FTE

39703rd nationally, tied with 2,128

Students per teacher

9.8students

8359th nationally, tied with 396

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.

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Within Stafford 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. 1Mountain View High2,203 students
  2. 2Brooke Point High2,150 students
  3. 3Stafford Senior High2,117 students
  4. 4Colonial Forge High1,996 students
  5. 5North Stafford High1,925 students
  6. 6Rodney E. Thompson Middle1,015 students
  7. 7H.H. Poole Middle983 students
  8. 8Shirley C. Heim Middle980 students
Distance from the state median

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

  • Enrollment−47.3%
  • Teachers−20.5%
  • Students per teacher−30.0%
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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.