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Public Schools in Virginia

1,869 schools · 132 districts · 1,260,351 students

46%
Average
Avg Proficiency
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Largest Schools in Virginia

School data sourced from NCES (National Center for Education Statistics) via the Common Core of Data.

Alexandria City High School

Alexandria

4,531 students

Lake Braddock Secondary

Burke

4,377 students

Robinson Secondary

Fairfax

3,607 students

Hayfield Secondary

Alexandria

3,145 students

Chantilly High

Chantilly

2,937 students

Charles J. Colgan Sr. High

Manassas

2,907 students

Woodbridge High

Woodbridge

2,905 students

Wakefield High

Arlington

2,766 students

West Potomac High

Alexandria

2,764 students

Osbourn Park High

Manassas

2,757 students

Frequently Asked Questions

Virginia has 1,869 public schools across 132 districts, serving 1,260,351 students.

The largest school in Virginia is Alexandria City High School with 4,531 students. Virginia has 1,869 public schools overall.

The average proficiency rate is 46%. Proficiency rates measure the percentage of students meeting state standards on standardized assessments, as reported by EDFacts.

All school data comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data for enrollment and school characteristics, and EDFacts for proficiency rates and graduation rates.

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School data is sourced from NCES enrollment records and EDFacts proficiency and graduation rate assessments. No synthetic scores are used.

For this entity, the underlying data on this page comes from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. The breakdown above is the federal record; the paragraphs below add the per-entity context that makes the headline numbers usable for a real decision rather than just a data lookup.

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.

Practical use of this page is in combination with the comparison and ranking pages elsewhere on the site, which surface the same data for this entity’s peers within U.S. public schools and districts. A single-entity reading without peer context can be misleading when an entity is an outlier on one axis but typical on another.