Booker T. Washington Elementary

Booker T. Washington Elementary, an intimate elementary campus in Suffolk, Virginia, operated by Suffolk City Public Schools, enrolls 362 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 499 students per school, that is 27% leaner than typical.

Suffolk City Public Schools runs 19 schools in total, collectively educating 14,565 students. Booker T. Washington Elementary is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Booker T. Washington Elementary lists that the largest single group is Black, at 77% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 11% White, 7% multiracial, 6% Hispanic. By comparison, Suffolk city as a whole is about 42% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 70% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Booker T. Washington Elementary is in the bottom 10% of Virginia public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 68.9%; Booker T. Washington Elementary posts 54.3%, -14.7 points below that line.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Suffolk city indicate the typical household earns roughly $92,666 per year, about 33% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Suffolk city's 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,565 students), Booker T. Washington Elementary is one campus in the mix.

John F. Kennedy Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.3 miles from this campus. 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), Booker T. Washington Elementary ranks 9th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 61.9%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Booker T. Washington Elementary's enrollment has edged down 14% since 2018, when it stood at 422 (now 362). The Black share of enrollment shrank from 90% to 77% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 13.1:1 in 2018 to 14.5:1 today.

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