Public school / Middle
William H. Ruffner Middle
Norfolk, Virginia
- NCES ID
- 510267001134
- District
- Norfolk City Public Schools
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
William H. Ruffner Middle is a public middle school in Norfolk, Virginia, run by Norfolk City Public Schools. It enrols 436 students — the 45825th 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
436
Teachers
42.0
Students per teacher
10.4
Free or reduced-price lunch
87.2%
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 Norfolk City 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.
- 1Norview High1,915 students
- 2Granby High1,837 students
- 3Matthew Fontaine Maury High1,697 students
- 4Norview Middle1,259 students
- 5Blair Middle1,149 students
- 6Lake Taylor High1,030 students
- 7Booker T Washington High947 students
- 8Azalea Gardens Middle848 students
- Enrollment−24.7%
- Teachers+7.7%
- Students per teacher−25.7%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+31.8%
Where this sits
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