Schools · Winchester
Winchester, VA schools
10 public, charter and private schools in Winchester. Search by name or narrow by level, type or district.
TownTapestry School GradeNew
C+
Winchester’s School Grade: C+
The public schools Winchester’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 65% of Virginia’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.
B-Test scoresC-Graduation
Virginia school districts we grade (133)Better than 35%
Lower resultsHigher results
Virginia towns with similar household incomes (219)Better than 29%
High confidence. Built on 2,124 tested students and a graduating class of 308; 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 (Winchester City)52%
State average 54.4%
Graduation · class of 2020
84% graduate on time
Graduation rate
84%
VA: 88.8%
Graduating class
308
students
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years. #231 of 249 VA towns →
Districts
The district serving Winchester
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Every school
All 10 schools in Winchester
Showing 1–10 of 10 schools
John Kerr ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–4 · 583 students
C+PublicVirginia Avenue Charlotte Dehart ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–4 · 415 students
CPublicGarland R. Quarles ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–4 · 410 students
CPublicFrederick Douglass ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–4 · 376 students
CPublicSacred Heart AcademyElementary · Grades PK–8 · 242 students
PrivateJames Wood MiddleMiddle · Grades 6–8 · 873 students
C-PublicDaniel Morgan MiddleMiddle · Grades 7–8 · 642 students
B-PublicDaniel Morgan IntermediateMiddle · Grades 5–6 · 575 students
C-PublicJohn Handley HighHigh · Grades 9–12 · 1,361 students
BPublicGrafton-Ruth Birch CampusOther · Grades 2–12 · 83 students
PrivateSchool data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES). Ratings are from neighbors on TownTapestry.