Belle Heth Elementary

Belle Heth Elementary is a reasonably sized K-5 school in Radford, Virginia, overseen by Radford City Public Schools. The school teaches 473 students in grades 3 through 6.

Radford City Public Schools runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 3,321 students. Belle Heth Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Belle Heth Elementary lists that the largest single group is White, at 68% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 12% multiracial, 11% Black, 8% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 82% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.9:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 80% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, Belle Heth Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 66.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 74.3%.

Across the wider county, Radford city reports that median household earnings sit near $57,348, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Radford city's 5 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,321 students), Belle Heth Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Radford High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Belle Heth Elementary. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Belle Heth Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 70.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-center area.

Over the past 7-year window. Belle Heth Elementary's enrollment has changed only slightly since 2018, when it stood at 475 (now 473). Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 76% to 68%.

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