A.M. Davis Elementary

A.M. Davis Elementary is an elementary-level community of middle-of-the-pack scale in North Chesterfield, Virginia, operated by Chesterfield County Public Schools, teacheing 708 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 42% bigger than the state mean of about 499.

A.M. Davis Elementary is one of 65 schools operated by Chesterfield County Public Schools, a district that works with 64,194 students overall.

Looking at the student body, A.M. Davis Elementary reports that the largest single group is Hispanic at 46%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school logs 27% Black, 18% White, 6% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 12%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. About 76% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Chesterfield County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, A.M. Davis Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 67.5%; this one delivers 56.1%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Chesterfield County indicate median household earnings sit near $101,931, about 44% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. A.M. Davis Elementary is one of 76 public schools in Chesterfield County (combined enrollment of about 64,194 students).

The closest other public school is Providence Middle, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), A.M. Davis Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 50.0%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. A.M. Davis Elementary's enrollment has changed only slightly since 2018, when it stood at 701 (now 708). The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 27% to 46% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 today.

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