Smart's Mill Middle School, 850 N. King St.: grades 6-8, 925 students in fall 2025, state rating Meets Expectations. Call 571-252-2030.
Last checked Oct. 23, 2026. Sources: Smart’s Mill 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.
Smart’s Mill Middle School, at 850 N. King St., is the middle school for northern Leesburg, downtown and rural areas north and west of town, grades 6 to 8. Every address in its zone goes on to Tuscarora High. It is run by Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS), the county-wide school division.
Who to call
- Front office: 571-252-2030, 8:20 a.m. to 4:30 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 | 850 N. King St., Leesburg, VA 20176 |
| Grades | 6 to 8 |
| Main phone | 571-252-2030 |
| Website | lcps.org/o/smm |
| School division | Loudoun County Public Schools |
Principal
Principal Will Waldman, according to the school’s website.
Enrollment and teachers
- State count: 925 students in fall 2025, compared with 886 in 2024 and 869 in 2023, in the School Quality Profile.
- Federal count: 869 students in the 2023-24 school year with 76 full-time-equivalent teachers, according to the NCES directory. That works out to about 11 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: 86.58, rated Meets Expectations, 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 | 68% | 71% | 73% |
| Math | 61% | 62% | 65% |
| Science | 67% | 69% | 69% |
The full profile also reports attendance, teacher data and spending.
Attendance zone
Every address in the Smart’s Mill Middle zone goes on to Tuscarora High for 2026-27. The elementary zones inside it, by share of its 8,624 county address points: Richard and Mildred Loving Elementary (34%), Leesburg Elementary (21%), Ball’s Bluff Elementary (21%), Lucketts Elementary (17%) and Kenneth W. Culbert Elementary (7%). Of those address points, 5,633 (65%) are inside the Leesburg town limits; the rest are in unincorporated Loudoun County.
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., 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/smm
- The state’s School Quality Profile for Smart’s Mill 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 Smart’s Mill Middle School serve?
Grades 6 through 8. The state counted 925 students in fall 2025.
How is Smart’s Mill Middle School rated by the state?
It is fully accredited for 2025-26. In Virginia’s School Performance and Support Framework it scored 86.58 and is rated Meets Expectations.
Which high school does Smart’s Mill Middle feed into?
Tuscarora High. Every address in its zone goes on to Tuscarora High on the LCPS 2026-27 zone maps.
Who is the principal of Smart’s Mill Middle School?
Will Waldman, according to the school’s website.
What time does Smart’s Mill 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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