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Big Rock, VA schools

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Big Rock’s School Grade: B-

The public schools Big Rock’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 54% of Virginia’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they sit near the middle.

B-Test scoresC+Graduation
Virginia school districts we grade (133)Better than 46%
Lower resultsHigher results
Virginia towns with similar household incomes (198)Better than 42%
High confidence. Built on 1,272 tested students and a graduating class of 221; ordinary year-to-year swings are unlikely to change the grade.
How the School Grade works
  • Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Virginia’s state tests, each against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
  • The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each. Tests count 60% and graduation 40%.
  • Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of Virginia only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
  • Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in Virginia with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
  • What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
Test scores · 2020–21

State test results

Math (Buchanan County)52%
State average 54.4%
Graduation · class of 2020

88% graduate on time

Graduation rate
88%
VA: 88.8%
Graduating class
221
students

The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years.

Districts

The district serving Big Rock

Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.

Within reach

Colleges near Big Rock

There’s no college in Big Rock, but 5 colleges are within 30 miles. The closest is Appalachian School of Law in Grundy, 7.2 miles away.

University of PikevilleUniversity or college · Private nonprofit · Pikeville20.3 mi2,364 studentsAmerican National University-PikevilleUniversity or college · For-profit · Pikeville20.5 mi172 students

Straight-line distance from the center of Big Rock. Degree-granting colleges with students on campus. Colleges marked › have their own page; the others are too small or don’t report enough to the Department of Education for one.

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