21 public K-12 schools in Lynchburg from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.
National city placement
According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Lynchburg has more public-school enrollment than 83% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Lynchburg lands in the upper national tier on both the average Resource Investment Index and teacher staffing intensity. Those measures come from different inputs: the index combines reported counselors, gifted access, attendance, and staffing, while the staffing percentile compares the city's student-teacher ratio directly. Agreement across both measures is stronger evidence of broad reported capacity than either score alone, though neither is a test-score rating or a guarantee about an individual classroom.
14 of Lynchburg's 21 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.
86.3% of enrollment in reporting Lynchburg schools is eligible for free lunch, while the city list spans 3 districts. That pairing makes a citywide average especially easy to misread: the need measure follows students, but staffing decisions, calendars, program rules, and federal allocations are administered through separate district structures. The 33-point gap between Dearington Elementary/Innovation and Linkhorne Elementary shows how much reported resource capacity can vary inside the same municipal label. Compare schools within the same district first, then use the city view to see how those local systems differ.
Lynchburg school enrollment ranges from 168 students (lowest) to 1,220 students (highest), a spread of 1,052 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
The reported share is at least 75%, indicating a high concentration of measured economic need. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
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.
| # | School | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Dearington Elementary/Innovation | 71 |
| 2. | T.C. Miller Elementary School for Innovation | 62 |
| 3. | William M. Bass Elementary | 60 |
| 4. | Boonsboro Elementary | 58 |
| 5. | Leesville Road Elementary | 56 |
| 6. | Brookville Middle | 54 |
| 7. | Tomahawk Elementary | 53 |
| 8. | Robert S. Payne Elementary | 53 |
| 9. | Perrymont Elementary | 53 |
| 10. | Paul Munro Elementary | 53 |
| 11. | Paul Laurence Dunbar Middle for Innovation | 49 |
| 12. | Brookville High | 48 |
| 13. | Sandusky Middle | 48 |
| 14. | Sandusky Elementary | 48 |
| 15. | Bedford Hills Elementary | 47 |
| 16. | E.C. Glass High | 45 |
| 17. | Linkhorne Middle | 45 |
| 18. | Heritage High | 43 |
| 19. | Heritage Elementary | 43 |
| 20. | Sheffield Elementary | 40 |
| 21. | Linkhorne Elementary | 38 |
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.
Dearington Elementary/Innovation has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Lynchburg schools in this federal-data comparison at 71/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.
Lynchburg has 21 public schools with a total enrollment of 10,944 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 13.4:1.
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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.
