Gainesville High
Gainesville, VA · High School · Grades 9-12
Gainesville High is a high school in Gainesville, VA with 2,038 students enrolled and a 62% proficiency rate. Part of Prince William County Public Schools. NCES data from the U.S. Department of Education.
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About This School
Gainesville High is a high school located in Gainesville, Virginia. The school serves 2,038 students in grades 9-12. The student-to-teacher ratio is 16.0:1.
According to EDFacts assessment data, 62% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading. The school reports a 87% graduation rate.
24% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Gainesville High is part of the Prince William County Public Schools in Virginia.
How This School Compares
Gainesville High has 2,038 students enrolled, making it larger than the average school in Prince William County Public Schools (959 students). Its 62% proficiency rate is 12 percentage points above the district average of 50%. Compared to the Virginia state average of 46%, the school performs 17 points higher.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Gainesville High has 2,038 students enrolled in grades 9-12. The student-to-teacher ratio is 16.0:1.
According to EDFacts data, 62% of students at Gainesville High meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.
Gainesville High has a 87% graduation rate, measuring the percentage of students who graduate within four years.
Gainesville High is part of the Prince William County Public Schools in Gainesville, Virginia. You can view all schools in this district on the district page.
All data on this page comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results. These are official federal datasets published by the U.S. Department of Education.
School profiles are built from NCES directory data and EDFacts assessment results. Proficiency rates reflect combined math and reading performance. Graduation rates are reported for high schools with available data.
The this entity record above pulls directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. What follows is the per-entity context — how this entity sits in the broader U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment distribution and which underlying factors drive the headline numbers.
Every number on this page links back to NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the methodology page describes the inputs, refresh cadence, and known limitations of the underlying data product.
For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for this entity is typically a peer within U.S. public schools and districts with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.