About Roanoke City Public Schools
Roanoke City Public Schools is a public school system serving Roanoke City, Virginia, based in Roanoke. It serves 13,811 students across 26 schools spanning PreK–12, and is classified as a city: small district. By enrollment it is the #20 largest of Virginia’s 132 school systems.
Size and structure
Roanoke City Public Schools enrolls 13,811 students in 26 schools — an average of about 531 students per school. It serves grades PreK–12 and ranks #20 of 132 statewide by enrollment.
Who the district serves
Student race and ethnicity in Roanoke City Public Schools, from the NCES Common Core of Data (13,811 students reported):
For economically-disadvantaged, English-learner, and special-education shares, plus school-by-school detail, see the federal sources in the full-data section.
Teachers & staff
Roanoke City Public Schools employs about 1,136 full-time-equivalent teachers for a student–teacher ratio of 12.2:1 — below the Virginia average of about 13.4:1, meaning comparatively smaller classes. Total district staff is roughly 2,543.
Counselor and librarian/media counts are not published at the district level in the current NCES release; see the federal full-data links for staffing detail.
How Virginia funds schools
District-level per-pupil spending and the local/state/federal revenue split for Roanoke City Public Schools are published in the federal school-finance files — see the full-data links below for the current figures.
Report card & state results
Virginia publishes School Quality Profiles for every school and division, and in 2024–25 adopted a new School Performance and Support Framework of multi-indicator performance and support designations covering achievement, readiness, program completion, safety and teacher quality. Look up Roanoke City Public Schools on the Virginia School Quality Profiles.
Accreditation status
Virginia accredits its public schools itself through the Standards of Accreditation (8VAC20-131), administered by the Department of Education under the Board of Education, rather than a private accreditor. See the Virginia Department of Education for a district’s accreditation status.
Roanoke City Public Schools vs. Virginia
See every Virginia district side by side in the Virginia directory.
Look up Roanoke City Public Schools’s full data
These official sources carry the district-level detail — finances, discipline, equity, test scores, boundaries. Direct links for this district (via its NCES ID):