NCES CCD 2024-25 7 schools VA

Best-Resourced Schools in Blacksburg, VA

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7 public K-12 schools in Blacksburg from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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7
Schools
4,015
Students
55.1/100
Avg Resource Index
13.1:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Blacksburg has more public-school enrollment than 44% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Blacksburg's 7 listed schools all sit inside one district, creating a compact governance structure with one budget, board, and reporting chain. That makes citywide comparisons cleaner than in places split across several districts, but it does not make the campuses interchangeable: elementary, middle, and high-school staffing needs differ. The ranked list is best read as variation inside one system rather than competition among separate local authorities.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

3 of Blacksburg's 7 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.

One district, but meaningful resource variation

Blacksburg's schools share one district authority while their average Resource Investment Index ranks at the 96th percentile among listed cities. Shared governance removes one source of policy variation, but it does not erase campus differences by grade span or enrollment. The 16-point gap between Harding Avenue Elementary and Prices Fork Elementary measures the remaining local spread. Use the district-level picture for common budget context, then compare the school components to see whether staffing, counseling, gifted-program reporting, or attendance accounts for each campus's position.

City enrollment
Top 56%
School count
Top 65%
Resource Index average
96th percentile
Teacher staffing
78th percentile

Blacksburg High accounts for 33.0% of all Blacksburg public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Blacksburg-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Blacksburg school enrollment varies 4.7× across entities

Blacksburg school enrollment ranges from 279 students (lowest) to 1,325 students (highest), a spread of 1,046 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Blacksburg operates one school district — a single-district system

Blacksburg's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Blacksburg student-teacher ratio is 13.1:1 — low (typically associated with smaller schools or per-school staffing investment that often correlates with stronger per-student supports)

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Harding Avenue Elementary 63
2. Gilbert Linkous Elementary 62
3. Kipps Elementary 57
4. Blacksburg Middle 55
5. Blacksburg High 51
6. Margaret Beeks Elementary 51
7. Prices Fork Elementary 47

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Blacksburg

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Prices Fork Elementary 53.0/100
  2. 2 Margaret Beeks Elementary 53.0/100
  3. 3 Kipps Elementary 51.9/100
  4. 4 Gilbert Linkous Elementary 51.1/100
  5. 5 Harding Avenue Elementary 47.8/100

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Which Blacksburg school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Harding Avenue Elementary has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Blacksburg schools in this federal-data comparison at 63/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Blacksburg, VA? ▼

Blacksburg has 7 public schools with a total enrollment of 4,015 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 13.1:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.