Belmont Ridge Middle School, 19045 Upper Belmont Place: grades 6-8, 1,050 students in fall 2025, state rating Distinguished. Call 571-252-2220.
Last checked Oct. 23, 2026. Sources: Belmont Ridge Middle School, Loudoun County Public Schools, the Virginia Department of Education’s School Quality Profile, the federal NCES school directory and LCPS’s 2026-27 elementary, middle and high school zone layers.
Belmont Ridge Middle School, at 19045 Upper Belmont Place, is the middle school for the Lansdowne area east of Leesburg and much of Ashburn, grades 6 to 8. Every address in its zone goes on to Riverside High. It is run by Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS), the county-wide school division.
Belmont Ridge has a Leesburg mailing address but sits outside the town limits, on the Riverside High campus east of Leesburg, according to Loudoun County’s town boundary map.
Who to call
- Front office: 571-252-2220, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- Enrolling a new student: LCPS Registration Services, 571-252-2490, and online pre-registration
- Which school serves an address: LCPS Planning and GIS Services, 571-252-1050, or the LABEL address lookup
- Buses: LCPS Transportation, 571-252-1700 (transportation page)
- LCPS central office: 21000 Education Court, Ashburn, 571-252-1000
| Address | 19045 Upper Belmont Place, Leesburg, VA 20176 |
| Grades | 6 to 8 |
| Main phone | 571-252-2220 |
| Website | lcps.org/o/bem |
| School division | Loudoun County Public Schools |
Principal
Principal Katie Johnson, according to the school’s website.
Enrollment and teachers
- State count: 1,050 students in fall 2025, compared with 1,073 in 2024 and 1,074 in 2023, in the School Quality Profile.
- Federal count: 1,071 students in the 2023-24 school year with 74 full-time-equivalent teachers, according to the NCES directory. That works out to about 14 students per teacher.
State report card
Virginia rates each school two ways on its School Quality Profile. Accreditation shows whether the state has approved the evidence the Standards of Accreditation require. The School Performance and Support Framework gives each school a score and one of four performance levels: Distinguished, Meets Expectations, Approaching Expectations or Needs Intensive Support, as listed in the LCPS division summary.
- Accreditation, 2025-26: Fully Accredited
- Framework score: 93.81, rated Distinguished, in the division summary
Standards of Learning pass rates (share of tested students who passed), from the School Quality Profile:
| Subject | 2023-24 | 2024-25 | 2025-26 |
|---|---|---|---|
| English reading | 80% | 84% | 84% |
| Math | 84% | 84% | 83% |
| Science | 77% | 82% | 79% |
The full profile also reports attendance, teacher data and spending.
Attendance zone
Every address in the Belmont Ridge Middle zone goes on to Riverside High for 2026-27. The elementary zones inside it, by share of its 9,813 county address points: Steuart W. Weller Elementary (46%), Seldens Landing Elementary (33%) and Newton-Lee Elementary (22%). None of those address points is inside the town limits; 3,194 (33%) carry a Leesburg mailing address, ZIP code 20176.
Check one address in the LCPS LABEL lookup or on the division’s 2026-27 zone maps, or call Planning and GIS Services at 571-252-1050. Our neighborhoods guide lists the zoned schools for each Leesburg community.
How we checked: we matched Loudoun County’s 140,704 address points against LCPS’s 2026-27 elementary, middle and high school zone layers and the town boundary. LCPS does not publish a feeder list, so the feeder lines and shares are our count; the zone lines are the division’s own.
Calendar and bell times
From the 2026-27 LCPS calendar the School Board adopted:
- Wednesday, Oct. 28: end of the first quarter
- Thursday, Oct. 29, to Tuesday, Nov. 3: no school for students (Election Day is Nov. 3)
- Monday, Nov. 9: holiday
- Wednesday, Nov. 25, to Friday, Nov. 27: Thanksgiving break
- Monday, Dec. 21, to Friday, Jan. 1: winter break; classes resume Monday, Jan. 4
- Monday, March 22, to Friday, March 26: spring break
- Friday, June 11, 2027: last day of school
Weather closings are posted on the LCPS inclement weather page.
School hours are 8:50 a.m. to 3:38 p.m., and early dismissals must be completed by 3 p.m., according to the school’s website. The full bell schedule is on the school’s website.
More on Leesburg schools
- The school’s own page: lcps.org/o/bem
- The state’s School Quality Profile for Belmont Ridge Middle
- Every public school in Leesburg, with zones and state ratings
- Our Leesburg schools guide for the calendar, registration and the School Board
Frequently asked questions
What grades does Belmont Ridge Middle School serve?
Grades 6 through 8. The state counted 1,050 students in fall 2025.
How is Belmont Ridge Middle School rated by the state?
It is fully accredited for 2025-26. In Virginia’s School Performance and Support Framework it scored 93.81 and is rated Distinguished.
Which high school does Belmont Ridge Middle feed into?
Riverside High. Every address in its zone goes on to Riverside High on the LCPS 2026-27 zone maps.
Who is the principal of Belmont Ridge Middle School?
Katie Johnson, according to the school’s website.
What time does Belmont Ridge Middle School start?
School hours are 8:50 a.m. to 3:38 p.m., according to the school’s website.
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