Public school / High
Union High
Big Stone Gap, Virginia
- NCES ID
- 510408001792
- District
- Wise County Public Schools
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Union High is a public high school in Big Stone Gap, Virginia, run by Wise County Public Schools. It enrols 601 students — the 26722nd 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
601
Teachers
38.0
Students per teacher
15.8
Free or reduced-price lunch
85.5%
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 Wise 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.
- 1Union Primary861 students
- 2Central High674 students
- 3Wise Primary607 students
- 4Union High601 students
- 5Union Middle583 students
- 6J.W. Adams Combined504 students
- 7St. Paul Elementary469 students
- 8Coeburn Primary466 students
- Enrollment+3.8%
- Teachers−2.6%
- Students per teacher+12.9%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+29.3%
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