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Public school / Middle

Van Devender Middle School

Parkersburg, West Virginia

NCES ID
540162001180
District
Wood County Schools
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Van Devender Middle School is a public middle school in Parkersburg, West Virginia, run by Wood County Schools. It enrols 311 students — the 64052nd largest of 690 public schools in West 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

311students

64052nd nationally, tied with 152

Teachers

28.0FTE

46232nd nationally, tied with 2,251

Students per teacher

11.1students

14601st nationally, tied with 542

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 Wood County 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. 1Parkersburg High School1,651 students
  2. 2Parkersburg South High School1,454 students
  3. 3Williamstown High School671 students
  4. 4Edison Middle School575 students
  5. 5Jefferson Elementary Center567 students
  6. 6Williamstown Elementary School553 students
  7. 7Blennerhassett Elementary School539 students
  8. 8Blennerhassett Middle School509 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: West Virginia median across 690 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment−8.0%
  • Teachers+21.7%
  • Students per teacher−17.8%
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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.