Lynchburg, VA
Kids in Lynchburg
Public-school enrollment and staffing from NCES, plus bedrooms, childcare and how educated the adults already here are. This is not a GreatSchools ranking.
- Public-school students
- 30,685
- NCES CCD 2024-2025, regular and charter districts in this metro.
- Pupil–teacher ratio
- 12.4
- 2,472 teachers across 5 districts and 70 schools.
- Districts / schools
- 5 / 70
- Open regular, component and charter LEAs geocoded to this CBSA.
- Bedrooms you set
- 1
- A household this size usually wants a studio.
- Childcare in this setup
- $0
- No kids under 5 in the current household, so this is $0.
- Leftover with current kids
- $2,175
- After tax, rent and everything else.
Largest public school districts
The 5 biggest open regular and charter districts geocoded to the Lynchburg metro, ranked by students enrolled. District websites are the direct source for enrollment boundaries, calendars and programs.
- Bedford County Public Schools
Bedford
- Students
- 8,930
- Schools
- 22
- Pupil–teacher
- 14
- Campbell County Public Schools
Rustburg
- Students
- 7,777
- Schools
- 15
- Pupil–teacher
- 11.7
- Lynchburg City Public Schools
Lynchburg
- Students
- 7,657
- Schools
- 20
- Pupil–teacher
- 11.9
- Amherst County Public Schools
Amherst
- Students
- 3,900
- Schools
- 9
- Pupil–teacher
- 12.5
- Appomattox County Public Schools
Appomattox
- Students
- 2,421
- Schools
- 4
- Pupil–teacher
- 13.4
Source: NCES CCD 2024–25, LEA directory, membership and staff files. Pupil–teacher is students divided by reported teacher FTE.
Public schools by level
- Primary
- 39
- Elementary grades
- Middle
- 11
- Middle or junior high
- High
- 11
- Secondary grades
- Other
- 13
- K–12, ungraded, alternative
74 open public schools in the NCES CCD 2024–25 school directory, grouped by the level NCES assigns from grades offered.
Where the Lynchburg metro sits
Roughly the core of the Lynchburg, VA metro area. Drag to look around, or open the larger map to search for a specific school or neighbourhood.
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If this were a family of four
Two adults, two kids, one under five, three bedrooms: leftover in Lynchburg would be -$72 a month, with $1,114 going to childcare. Run that household on the paycheck page →
Enrollment and staffing: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-2025, joined to metros with NCES EDGE LEA geocodes. Childcare is a national baseline scaled by this metro's cost index — not a daycare quote. No test-score rankings.