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High · Regular · Grades 9 to 12

Union High, Big Stone Gap, VA

CEP schoolUnion High is a public high school in Big Stone Gap, part of Wise County Public Schools. It enrolled 564 students in 2024-25, with 15.2 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
564
Teachers (FTE)
37.0
Students per teacher
15.2
Grades
9 to 12

This school's ratio is 3.0 higher than the district figure of 12.2. The Virginia average across schools is 14.0. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school15.2
District12.2
Virginia14.0
United States15.3

School details

Address
322 Powell Valley Road, Big Stone Gap, VA 24219
Phone
(276)523-1290
District
Wise County Public Schools
County
Wise County
Level
High
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Locale
Town: Distant
NCES school ID
510408001792
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free lunch
511
Reduced-price lunch
0
Free or reduced-price lunch
51190.6% of enrollment.
Direct certification
511Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
Community Eligibility Provision
Yes (CEP school)

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

Related schools

Other high schools in Wise County Public Schools

We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.