Enrollment
402
Elementary
DISTRICT 336 · STATE 499
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LYNCHBURG CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 510234000952
Bedford Hills Elementary
4330 Morningside Dr, Lynchburg, VA 24503 · (434) 515-5210 · Lynchburg city
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL402 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 29% of Virginia public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Virginia public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.0:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.0:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
98%
394 students
DISTRICT 95% · STATE 66%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 6 | 1% |
| Kindergarten | 69 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 67 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 83 | 21% |
| Grade 3 | 52 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 72 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 53 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (69) is 30% larger than its 5th grade class (53).
Student demographics
65%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 65% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
SOL 2024-25 . % PassingEnglish Language Arts
69.0%
VA avg 74.2% . +15.0pp since 2022
Math
63.0%
VA avg 72.7% . +10.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 69 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 63 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Virginia schools, those numbers are about 74 and 73. Reading and writing scores are up about 15 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 10 points.
SOL results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 69.0% | 63.0% |
| 2023-24 | 59.0% | 52.0% |
| 2022-23 | 54.0% | 53.0% |
% Passing, all students and all tested grades.
Source: SOL. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
59.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
61.4%
based on VA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 60% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 61% typical for Virginia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Virginia's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Bedford Hills Elementary
Bedford Hills Elementary's state test result (59.9% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bedford Hills Elementary this school | 402 | 98.0% | 59.9% |
| Paul Munro Elementary Lynchburg | 356 | 97.2% | 82.4% |
| Hilton Elementary Newport News | 368 | 99.2% | 78.8% |
| Clarksville Elementary Skipwith | 432 | 95.1% | 76.4% |
| Buckingham Co Elementary Dillwyn | 351 | 99.4% | 59.8% |
| Victoria Elementary Victoria | 400 | 93.3% | 63.6% |
Matched among Virginia elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Bedford Hills Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Virginia | In Lynchburg city |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 59.9% | #840 of 1,101 | #5 of 11 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 63.0% | #834 of 1,111 ▲ 120 | #4 of 11 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 69.0% | #628 of 1,111 ▲ 253 | #2 of 11 ▲ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 402 | #810 of 1,176 | #4 of 11 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.0:1 | #341 of 1,105 | #4 of 8 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.0% | #404 of 1,106 | #4 of 8 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 98.0% | #216 of 1,157 | #3 of 11 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -11.8% | #386 of 759 | #6 of 8 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
402
+26 (+7%) vs 2020
+2% since 1990-91, when it was 396
Student : Teacher
13.0:1
was 13.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 402 | 31 | 13.0:1 | 98% (394) |
| 2023-24 | 412 | 33.4 | 12.3:1 | 97% (401) |
| 2022-23 | 383 | 33.5 | 11.4:1 | 98% (374) |
| 2020-21 | 376 | 29 | 13.0:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 456 | 32.9 | 13.8:1 | 47% (214) |
| 2015-16 | 535 | 35 | 15.3:1 | 39% (208) |
| 2010-11 | 501 | 27 | 18.6:1 | 32% (159) |
| 2000-01 | 506 | 34 | 14.9:1 | 35% (175) |
| 1990-91 | 396 | 23 | 17.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Bedford Hills Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 12% (456 to 402); teachers down 6% (32.9 to 31).
About Bedford Hills Elementary
Bedford Hills Elementary is one of the public schools in Lynchburg, Virginia. It is a small elementary school. The school had 402 students in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25.
Lynchburg City Public Schools counts 7,657 students in its 16 schools, and Bedford Hills Elementary is one of them.
Federal enrollment data show White students as the largest group at Bedford Hills Elementary, at 49%. Beyond that, enrollment is 31% Black, 10% Hispanic, and 9% multiracial. The White share of the county population is higher, at 61%. Bedford Hills Elementary's diversity index is 65%, against a US figure of 70%.
Federal records show a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.0:1 at Bedford Hills Elementary, with 31 full-time-equivalent teachers. This ratio sits 0.9 below the 13.8:1 average for elementary schools in Virginia. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility, a common measure of family income, is 98%. For comparison, public schools in Lynchburg city average 95%.
The allk12 Grade for Bedford Hills Elementary is C. Compared with Virginia public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 29% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, Bedford Hills Elementary would be expected to post about 61.4%. Its actual average proficiency rate on state tests is 59.9%.
In the county around the school, Lynchburg city, the median household income is $57,947, roughly 39% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. There are 24 public schools in Lynchburg city, enrolling about 7,657 students in all.
Paul Munro Elementary is the closest public school, about 0.9 miles away in a straight line. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Bedford Hills Elementary. Bedford Hills Elementary places 5th of 9 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
NCES lists the school's locale as City: Small. That means it sits inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Over 4 years, Bedford Hills Elementary's enrollment climbed 7%, to 402.
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Lynchburg city at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
79,497
Census ACS
Median income
$57,947
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
24
7,657 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Lynchburg City Public Schools
- E.C. Glass HighHigh · 1,220 students
- Heritage HighHigh · 1,113 students
- Sandusky MiddleMiddle · 583 students
- Paul Laurence Dunbar Middle for InnovationMiddle · 531 students
- Linkhorne MiddleMiddle · 519 students
- Heritage ElementaryElementary · 448 students
Other schools in Lynchburg
- E.C. Glass HighHigh · 1,220 students
- Heritage HighHigh · 1,113 students
- Brookville HighHigh · 1,017 students
- Tomahawk ElementaryElementary · 667 students
- Brookville MiddleMiddle · 648 students
- Leesville Road ElementaryElementary · 646 students
Other Bedford Hills Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Bedford Hills Elementary. Bedford Hills Elementary is the largest of the 2.
- BEDFORD HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLBEDFORD HILLS, NY · 309 students
Nearby schools
- Paul Munro Elementary0.9 mi · 356
- Linkhorne Elementary1.6 mi · 378
- Linkhorne Middle1.8 mi · 519
- Boonsboro Elementary2.9 mi · 309
- Dearington Elementary/Innovation3.1 mi · 180
- E.C. Glass High3.2 mi · 1,220
Frequently asked questions
About Bedford Hills ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Bedford Hills Elementary?
Bedford Hills Elementary enrolls approximately 402 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Bedford Hills Elementary serve?
Bedford Hills Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does Bedford Hills Elementary have?
Bedford Hills Elementary employs 31 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.0:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Bedford Hills Elementary?
At Bedford Hills Elementary, the student body is approximately 49% White, 10% Hispanic, 31% Black, 1% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Who oversees Bedford Hills Elementary?
Bedford Hills Elementary is overseen by Lynchburg City Public Schools in Lynchburg city.
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