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Public school / Middle

Sandburg Middle

Alexandria, Virginia

NCES ID
510126000474
District
Fairfax County Public Schools
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Sandburg Middle is a public middle school in Alexandria, Virginia, run by Fairfax County Public Schools. It enrols 1,438 students — the 4104th 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

1,438students

4104th nationally, tied with 7

Teachers

93.0FTE

3180th nationally, tied with 117

Students per teacher

15.5students

52263rd nationally, tied with 873

Free or reduced-price lunch

49.1%percent

51409th nationally, tied with 100

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 Fairfax 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. 1Lake Braddock Secondary4,377 students
  2. 2Robinson Secondary3,607 students
  3. 3Hayfield Secondary3,145 students
  4. 4Chantilly High2,937 students
  5. 5West Potomac High2,764 students
  6. 6Oakton High2,701 students
  7. 7Westfield High2,686 students
  8. 8West Springfield High2,663 students
Distance from the state median

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

  • Enrollment+148.4%
  • Teachers+138.5%
  • Students per teacher+10.7%
  • 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.