High · Virginia

Essex High

Free meals for all

Essex High, a public high school in Tappahannock, Virginia: grades 9–12, 393 students, 13.7 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Essex 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: 393
Teachers (FTE): 28.8
Students per teacher: 13.7
Grades: 9–12; High

Fewer students per teacher than 51% of high schools in Virginia

Median 13.9 · 325 schools compared

Fewer students per teacher than 55% of high schools in the US

Median 14.4 · 20,809 schools compared

Smaller than 85% of high schools in Virginia

Median 1,136 · 325 schools compared

Smaller than 52% 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: Remote rural area
Run by: Essex County Public Schools

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

Location

Address: 833 High School Circle, Tappahannock, VA 22560
Phone: (804)443-4301
City or town: Tappahannock
County: Essex County

Website Quality of life in Tappahannock Schools in Tappahannock

Nearby high schools

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

School	Grades	Students	Students / teacher
Rappahannock HighFree meals for all	8–12	544	14.5	7.4 mi
Westmoreland HighFree meals for all	9–12	488	13.0	12.2 mi
Central HighFree meals for all	7–12	265	10.4	17.3 mi
King William High	9–12	685	13.9	18.8 mi
Colonial Beach HighFree meals for all	8–12	226	20.5	23.6 mi
Northumberland HighFree meals for all	9–12	380	12.0	23.8 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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