District profile / Virginia

Clarke County Public Schools

Berryville, Virginia · Public school district · #93 of 117 Virginia districts by enrollment

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1,883

Students

2024-25 school year

Schools

2024-25 school year

$13,281

Spending per student

FY2020-21 · about the same as the Virginia median

14.2

Students per teacher

2024-25 · Virginia median 13.3

Clarke County Public Schools is a public school district based in Berryville, Virginia, serving 1,883 students in 4 schools. By enrollment it ranks #93 of the 117 Virginia districts with 1,000 or more students, larger than about 21% of them. Its schools average 471 students each, about the same as the Virginia median of 509. It spends about $13,281 per student on day-to-day operations, about the state median. It has roughly 14.2 students per teacher.

How Clarke County compares

Clarke CountyVirginia median, districts with 1,000+ students

Spending per student$13,281

Virginia median $12,729 · about the same · FY2020-21

Instruction spending per student$7,771

Virginia median $7,559 · about the same · FY2020-21

Students per school471

Virginia median 509 · 7% below · 2024-25

Students per teacher14.2

Virginia median 13.3 · 7% above · 2024-25

Students per counselor235

Virginia median 290 · 19% below · 2024-25

Spending and staffing

Where the money comes from$27.1 million in revenue · FY2020-21

Federal 9%State 34%Local 57%

Measure	Clarke County	Virginia median	Year
Current spending per student	$13,281	$12,729	FY2020-21
Instruction spending per student	$7,771	$7,559	FY2020-21
Total spending	$25.2 million	n/a	FY2020-21
Total revenue	$27.1 million	n/a	FY2020-21
Teachers (full-time equivalent)	133	n/a	2024-25
Total staff (full-time equivalent)	290	n/a	2024-25
Students per teacher	14.2	13.3	2024-25
Students per counselor	235	290	2024-25

Spending: NCES school district finance survey (F-33), FY2020-21. Staffing and enrollment: NCES Common Core of Data, 2024-25. Via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. The Virginia median compares districts with 1,000 or more students.

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Peer districts in Virginia

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District	Students	Schools	Spending per student	Students per teacher	Rank
Clarke County Public SchoolsBerryville · this district	1,883	4	$13,281	14.2	#93
Buckingham County Public SchoolsBuckingham	1,868	5	$12,729	14.6	#94
Prince Edward County Public SchoolsFarmville	1,845	4	$12,959	13.3	#95
Dickenson County Public SchoolsClintwood	1,801	3	$13,321	11.1	#96
Martinsville City Public SchoolsMartinsville	1,793	5	$14,313	12.0	#97

Similar-size districts nationally

District	Students	Spending per student	Students per teacher
Maconaquah School CorporationBunker Hill, IN	1,883	$9,343	16.7
RSU 19Newport, ME	1,883	$15,399	11.8
Fredericktown R-IFredericktown, MO	1,883	$8,878	13.4
Olean City School DistrictOlean, NY	1,883	$19,537	10.2

Peers are the districts closest in enrollment, so they can still differ in many other ways. Enrollment, school counts and phone numbers are from the NCES Common Core of Data, 2024-25.

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