Swift Creek Middle School, 3700 Old Hundred Road, Midlothian: grades 6 through 8, 935 students in fall 2025. Office: 804-739-6315.

Last checked Oct. 19, 2026. Sources: Swift Creek Middle School, Chesterfield County Public Schools, the Virginia Department of Education’s School Quality Profile and the federal NCES school directory.

Swift Creek Middle School is a public middle school in Chesterfield County Public Schools (CCPS), serving grades 6 through 8. Its mascot is the Sailors and its colors are dark blue, red and white, according to the school’s website. Midlothian is unincorporated, so the county school division, not a town, runs the school. Attendance zones follow streets, not ZIP codes or community names: check an address on the division’s School Locator.

State enrollment fell from 1,183 in fall 2024 to 935 in fall 2025, the year Deep Creek Middle opened in Moseley.

Who to call

Address 3700 Old Hundred Road, Midlothian, VA 23112
Grades 6 to 8
School day 7:35 a.m. to 2:05 p.m.
Website swiftcreekms.oneccps.org
Division Chesterfield County Public Schools

Principal

Principal Edward Maynes, according to the school’s website.

Enrollment and teachers

  • State count: 935 students in fall 2025, compared with 1,183 in 2024 and 1,135 in 2023, in the School Quality Profile.
  • Federal count: 1,135 students in the 2023-24 school year, with 74 full-time-equivalent teachers, according to the NCES directory. That works out to about 15 students per teacher.

State report card

Virginia rates each school two ways on its School Quality Profile. Accreditation shows whether the school submitted, and the state 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.

  • Accreditation, 2025-26: Fully Accredited
  • Framework score: 89.87, rated Distinguished, in the division summary

Standards of Learning pass rates (share of tested students who passed):

Subject 2023-24 2024-25 2025-26
English reading 78% 84% 83%
Math 85% 87% 88%
Science 77% 83% 81%

The full profile also reports results by student group, attendance, spending and teacher data.

Attendance zone

Use the CCPS School Locator 2026-2027 to see the elementary, middle and high school for an address. According to the division’s zone maps, the Swift Creek Middle zone takes in all or part of the zones of Swift Creek Elementary, Clover Hill Elementary and Evergreen Elementary. From Swift Creek Middle, students go on to Clover Hill High or Cosby High, depending on address. The locator is the final word for any single address.

The School Board adopted an attendance zone Oct. 13 for West Ridge High, which opens in August 2027 and takes territory from the Cosby and Midlothian high school zones. See the Cosby High page for details.

Calendar and bell times

From the CCPS 2026-27 calendar, approved by the School Board June 3:

  • Friday, Oct. 30: end of the first quarter; three-hour early release
  • Monday, Nov. 2, and Tuesday, Nov. 3: no school (Nov. 3 is Election Day)
  • Friday, Nov. 13: three-hour early release
  • Nov. 25-27: Thanksgiving holiday
  • Dec. 21 to Jan. 1: winter break
  • March 29 to April 2, 2027: spring break
  • Friday, June 4, 2027: last day of school; early release

The school day runs 7:35 a.m. to 2:05 p.m., according to the school’s website.

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Frequently asked questions

What grades does Swift Creek Middle School serve?

Grades 6 through 8. The school is at 3700 Old Hundred Road in Midlothian.

How is Swift Creek Middle School rated by the state?

It is fully accredited for 2025-26. In Virginia’s School Performance and Support Framework it scored 89.87 and is rated Distinguished, according to the state’s School Quality Profiles.

Which high school does Swift Creek Middle School feed into?

Clover Hill High or Cosby High, depending on the address, according to the division’s zone maps.

What time does Swift Creek Middle School start?

The school day runs 7:35 a.m. to 2:05 p.m., according to the school’s website.