High · Virginia

Amherst County High

Free meals for all

Amherst County High, a public high school in Amherst, Virginia: grades 9–12, 1,240 students, 14.4 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Amherst County Public Schools.

Size and class size

Compared with high schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.

Students: 1,240
Teachers (FTE): 86.4
Students per teacher: 14.4
Grades: 9–12; High

More students per teacher than 57% of high schools in Virginia

Median 13.9 · 325 schools compared

Fewer students per teacher than 50% of high schools in the US

Median 14.4 · 20,809 schools compared

Larger than 54% of high schools in Virginia

Median 1,136 · 325 schools compared

Larger than 80% of high schools in the US

Median 414 · 22,064 schools compared

State test results

No state test results published for this school: state tests cover grades 3–8, and small groups are not published.

What it offers

Grades: High · Grades 9–12
Type: District school · Regular
Instruction: Some virtual classes
Meals: Free breakfast and lunch for every student
Area: Distant rural area
Run by: Amherst County Public Schools

Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Amherst County Public Schools.

Location

Address: 139 Lancer Lane, Amherst, VA 24521
Phone: (434)946-2898
City or town: Amherst
County: Amherst County

Website Quality of life in Amherst Schools in Amherst

Nearby high schools

The closest public high schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.

School	Grades	Students	Students / teacher
E.C. Glass HighFree meals for all	9–12	1,220	13.6	12.7 mi
Nelson County HighFree meals for all	9–12	486	10.5	14.3 mi
Heritage HighFree meals for all	9–12	1,113	15.5	16.4 mi
Brookville HighFree meals for all	9–12	1,017	12.1	18.3 mi
Jefferson Forest High	9–12	1,282	17.2	19.0 mi
Parry McCluer HighFree meals for all	8–12	315	12.4	19.4 mi

Sources

Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).

Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level; state test results are compared only within a state.

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