District profile / Virginia

Dickenson County Public Schools

Clintwood, Virginia · Public school district · #96 of 117 Virginia districts by enrollment

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1,801

Students

2024-25 school year

Schools

2024-25 school year

$13,321

Spending per student

FY2020-21 · about the same as the Virginia median

11.1

Students per teacher

2024-25 · Virginia median 13.3

Dickenson County Public Schools is a public school district based in Clintwood, Virginia, serving 1,801 students in 3 schools. By enrollment it ranks #96 of the 117 Virginia districts with 1,000 or more students, larger than about 18% of them. Its schools average 600 students each, more than the Virginia median of 509. It spends about $13,321 per student on day-to-day operations, about the state median. It has roughly 11.1 students per teacher.

How Dickenson County compares

Dickenson CountyVirginia median, districts with 1,000+ students

Spending per student$13,321

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

Instruction spending per student$7,216

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

Students per school600

Virginia median 509 · 18% above · 2024-25

Students per teacher11.1

Virginia median 13.3 · 17% below · 2024-25

Students per counselor300

Virginia median 290 · about the same · 2024-25

Spending and staffing

Where the money comes from$28.1 million in revenue · FY2020-21

Federal 16%State 62%Local 23%

Measure	Dickenson County	Virginia median	Year
Current spending per student	$13,321	$12,729	FY2020-21
Instruction spending per student	$7,216	$7,559	FY2020-21
Total spending	$27.4 million	n/a	FY2020-21
Total revenue	$28.1 million	n/a	FY2020-21
Teachers (full-time equivalent)	162	n/a	2024-25
Total staff (full-time equivalent)	372	n/a	2024-25
Students per teacher	11.1	13.3	2024-25
Students per counselor	300	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
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 · this district	1,801	3	$13,321	11.1	#96
Martinsville City Public SchoolsMartinsville	1,793	5	$14,313	12.0	#97
Nottoway County Public SchoolsNottoway	1,792	5	$12,654	11.8	#98

Similar-size districts nationally

District	Students	Spending per student	Students per teacher
Swan Valley School DistrictSaginaw, MI	1,802	$9,238	18.4
Perryton ISDPerryton, TX	1,802	$10,836	12.4
Thatcher Unified District (4219)Thatcher, AZ	1,801	$8,551	18.8
Manteno CUSD 5Manteno, IL	1,801	$14,360	13.1

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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