Summary:
Zip code 23005 is home to one high school, Patrick Henry High in Ashland, Virginia, serving grades 9 through 12 with an enrollment of 1,294 students as part of Hanover County Public Schools. Because this is the only high school in the area, all meaningful comparisons are made against the district and state averages rather than other nearby schools.
Patrick Henry High shows a clear academic split. Mathematics is a definite strength: Geometry proficiency reached 95.83% and Algebra I proficiency hit 91.48% for 9th graders and 92.0% for 10th graders in 2025–2026, all well above state averages. However, science and history scores lag significantly. Biology proficiency for 10th graders was just 36.36% compared with 75.47% for the district and 68.86% for the state, a roughly 34-point gap. World History II proficiency was especially striking at just 7.55% for 10th graders, compared with 29.55% for the district. These subject-area gaps suggest science and social studies instruction may need targeted attention, while math programs are clearly succeeding.
The school's overall state ranking improved substantially from 254th out of 328 high schools in 2024–2025 to 192nd out of 331 in 2025–2026, moving from the 23rd to the 42nd percentile. Graduation rate sits at 92.0%, nearly matching the state average of 92.3%, while the dropout rate of 5.1% is slightly above the state average. Chronic absenteeism is 12.5% — better than the state average of 14.8% but nearly double the district rate of 6.9%. With a favorable student-teacher ratio of 13.4 and per-student spending of $11,262, Patrick Henry High has solid structural conditions to build on. While it remains below the midpoint of Virginia high schools and trails its high-performing district in several subjects, the recent ranking jump and strong math outcomes offer encouraging signs for parents.
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