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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at Beulah Elementary this year?
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Enrollment
902
Elementary
DISTRICT 698 · STATE 499
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHESTERFIELD COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 510084000317
Beulah Elementary
5441 Beulah Rd, North Chesterfield, VA 23237 · (804) 743-3620 · Chesterfield County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL902 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 8% of Virginia public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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
13.6:1
66 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.5:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
77%
695 students
DISTRICT 56% · STATE 66%
Community
1
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 151 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 151 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 127 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 169 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 155 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 149 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (151) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (149).
Student demographics
64%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 70% · 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
53.0%
VA avg 74.2% . -2.0pp since 2022
Math
57.0%
VA avg 72.7% . +17.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 53 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 57 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Virginia schools, those numbers are about 74 and 73. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 17 points.
SOL results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 53.0% | 57.0% |
| 2023-24 | 50.0% | 42.0% |
| 2022-23 | 55.0% | 40.0% |
% Passing, all students and all tested grades.
Source: SOL. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of VA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
49.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
67.1%
based on VA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-17.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 49% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 67% typical for Virginia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Beulah Elementary
Beulah Elementary's state test result (49.3% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beulah Elementary this school | 902 | 77.1% | 49.3% |
| J.G. Hening Elementary North Chesterfield | 877 | 77.4% | 49.1% |
| J.A. Chalkley Elementary Chesterfield | 835 | 77.7% | 45.0% |
| Hopkins Road Elementary North Chesterfield | 776 | 76.7% | 54.6% |
| Triangle Elementary Triangle | 795 | 70.8% | 55.1% |
| A.M. Davis Elementary North Chesterfield | 708 | 75.6% | 56.1% |
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 Beulah Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Virginia | In Chesterfield County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 49.3% | #985 of 1,101 | #35 of 40 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 57.0% | #927 of 1,111 ▲ 118 | #31 of 40 ▲ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 53.0% | #966 of 1,111 ▲ 43 | #34 of 40 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 902 | #35 of 1,176 | #4 of 41 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.6:1 | #468 of 1,105 | #20 of 41 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.4% | #432 of 1,106 | #17 of 41 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 77.1% | #535 of 1,157 | #11 of 41 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +23.1% | #40 of 324 | #4 of 17 |
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
902
-23 (-2%) vs 2020
+8% since 1990-91, when it was 833
Student : Teacher
13.6:1
was 15.7:1
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 | 902 | 66.2 | 13.6:1 | 77% (695) |
| 2023-24 | 993 | 66.2 | 15.0:1 | 77% (761) |
| 2022-23 | 989 | 69.3 | 14.3:1 | 80% (796) |
| 2020-21 | 925 | 59 | 15.7:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 733 | 45.5 | 16.1:1 | 64% (467) |
| 2015-16 | 643 | 40 | 16.1:1 | 62% (400) |
| 2010-11 | 584 | 39 | 15.0:1 | 60% (350) |
| 2000-01 | 583 | 39 | 14.9:1 | 27% (155) |
| 1990-91 | 833 | 40 | 20.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Beulah Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 23% (733 to 902); teachers up 46% (45.5 to 66.2).
About Beulah Elementary
Beulah Elementary is a large elementary school in North Chesterfield, Virginia. The school serves pre-K through 5. Enrollment is 902 students. It has 81% more students than the average for elementary schools in Virginia (about 499).
The 65 schools in Chesterfield County Public Schools enroll 64,194 students altogether, Beulah Elementary among them.
The student body at Beulah Elementary has no majority group. Hispanic students lead at 42%. The next largest groups are 41% Black, 12% White, and 4% multiracial. The school's Hispanic share is 30 points above the 12% share among Chesterfield County residents. A diversity index of 64% means there is a 64% chance two randomly chosen students at Beulah Elementary are from different groups.
Beulah Elementary has a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.6:1, with 66.2 full-time-equivalent teachers. The ratio is within a point of the 13.8:1 average for elementary schools in Virginia. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 77% at Beulah Elementary. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Chesterfield County is 54%.
On the allk12 Grade, Beulah Elementary lands at D, ahead of 8% of Virginia public elementary schools.
In Virginia, Beulah Elementary is one of the bottom 10% of schools on BeatsExpectations, with an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 49.3% compared with a predicted 67.1%.
The school is in Chesterfield County, where the median household earns about $101,931 a year, about 44% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. Across Chesterfield County, 76 public schools serve about 64,194 students.
Lloyd C. Bird High is the nearest public school to Beulah Elementary, about 1.6 miles away. Within five miles of Beulah Elementary, there are at least 8 other public schools. In a group of 8 nearby schools with scores, Beulah Elementary ranks 7th on average proficiency.
Under the NCES locale system, Beulah Elementary is Suburb: Large.
Enrollment at Beulah Elementary was 925 in 2020-21 and 902 in 2024-25, a change of less than 3%. Students per teacher dropped from 15.7 in 2020-21 to 13.6 in 2024-25.
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Chesterfield County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
377,869
Census ACS
Median income
$101,931
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
44%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
76
64,194 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Chesterfield County Public Schools
- Thomas Dale HighHigh · 2,582 students
- Cosby HighHigh · 2,507 students
- Manchester HighHigh · 2,236 students
- Lloyd C. Bird HighHigh · 2,131 students
- Midlothian HighHigh · 2,048 students
- Meadowbrook HighHigh · 1,953 students
Other schools in North Chesterfield
- Meadowbrook HighHigh · 1,953 students
- Falling Creek MiddleMiddle · 1,443 students
- Manchester MiddleMiddle · 1,109 students
- Providence MiddleMiddle · 1,033 students
- J.G. Hening ElementaryElementary · 877 students
- Salem Church MiddleMiddle · 876 students
Other Beulah Elementary schools
5 other US public schools in 6 states are named Beulah Elementary. Beulah Elementary is the largest of the 6.
- BEULAH ELEMENTARY SCHOOLPENSACOLA, FL · 889 students
- Beulah Elementary SchoolValley, AL · 696 students
- Beulah Elementary SchoolDouglasville, GA · 428 students
- BEULAH ELEMENTARY SCHOOLBeulah, ND · 306 students
- Beulah Elementary SchoolBEULAH, CO · 88 students
Nearby schools
- Lloyd C. Bird High1.6 mi · 2,131
- Chesterfield Virtual School1.7 mi · 440
- Meadowbrook High1.7 mi · 1,953
- O.B. Gates Elementary1.7 mi · 620
- Salem Church Elementary1.8 mi · 574
- Salem Church Middle1.9 mi · 876
Frequently asked questions
About Beulah ElementaryHow many students attend Beulah Elementary?
Beulah Elementary enrolls approximately 902 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Beulah Elementary serve?
Beulah Elementary serves grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Beulah Elementary have?
Beulah Elementary employs 66 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.6:1.
What is the student diversity at Beulah Elementary?
Student demographics at Beulah Elementary are roughly 12% White, 42% Hispanic, 41% Black, 1% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is Beulah Elementary in?
Beulah Elementary is part of Chesterfield County Public Schools.
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