District profile / Virginia

Prince Edward County Public Schools

Farmville, Virginia · Public school district · #95 of 117 Virginia districts by enrollment

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1,845

Students

2024-25 school year

Schools

2024-25 school year

$12,959

Spending per student

FY2020-21 · about the same as the Virginia median

13.3

Students per teacher

2024-25 · Virginia median 13.3

Prince Edward County Public Schools is a public school district based in Farmville, Virginia, serving 1,845 students in 4 schools. By enrollment it ranks #95 of the 117 Virginia districts with 1,000 or more students, larger than about 19% of them. Its schools average 461 students each, about the same as the Virginia median of 509. It spends about $12,959 per student on day-to-day operations, about the state median. It has roughly 13.3 students per teacher.

How Prince Edward County compares

Prince Edward CountyVirginia median, districts with 1,000+ students

Spending per student$12,959

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

Instruction spending per student$7,953

Virginia median $7,559 · 5% above · FY2020-21

Students per school461

Virginia median 509 · 9% below · 2024-25

Students per teacher13.3

Virginia median 13.3 · about the same · 2024-25

Students per counselor369

Virginia median 290 · 27% above · 2024-25

Spending and staffing

Where the money comes from$26.1 million in revenue · FY2020-21

Federal 17%State 59%Local 24%

Measure	Prince Edward County	Virginia median	Year
Current spending per student	$12,959	$12,729	FY2020-21
Instruction spending per student	$7,953	$7,559	FY2020-21
Total spending	$26.0 million	n/a	FY2020-21
Total revenue	$26.1 million	n/a	FY2020-21
Teachers (full-time equivalent)	139	n/a	2024-25
Total staff (full-time equivalent)	306	n/a	2024-25
Students per teacher	13.3	13.3	2024-25
Students per counselor	369	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	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 · this district	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
RSU 11/msad 11Gardiner, ME	1,846	$15,485	12.1
Fairmont Area School DistrictFairmont, MN	1,846	$13,409	16.9
Dalhart ISDDalhart, TX	1,846	$10,510	15.0
Mexia ISDMexia, TX	1,846	$12,087	13.0

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.

Printed from Superintendent's Corner: https://superintendentscorner.com/district-va-prince-edward-county-public-schools