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Enrollment
612
Elementary
DISTRICT 377 · STATE 499
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·RICHMOND CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 510324001861
Broad Rock Elementary
4615 Ferguson Ln, Richmond, VA 23234 · (804) 780-5048 · Richmond city
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL612 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 14% 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.
- 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
14.8:1
41 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.5:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
99%
608 students
DISTRICT 99% · 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 | 109 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 90 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 101 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 110 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 110 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 92 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (109) is 18% larger than its 5th grade class (92).
Student demographics
51%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 59% · 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
52.0%
VA avg 74.2% . +13.0pp since 2022
Math
58.0%
VA avg 72.7% . +8.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 52 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 58 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 13 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 8 points.
SOL results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 52.0% | 58.0% |
| 2023-24 | 50.0% | 57.0% |
| 2022-23 | 39.0% | 50.0% |
% 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
50.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
61.0%
based on VA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-10.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 51% 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 Broad Rock Elementary
Broad Rock Elementary's state test result (50.6% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Broad Rock Elementary this school | 612 | 99.3% | 50.6% |
| G.H. Reid Elementary Richmond | 671 | 99.1% | 39.5% |
| J.L. Francis Elementary Richmond | 526 | 99.2% | 50.6% |
| L.F. Palmer Elementary Newport News | 465 | 98.3% | 55.4% |
| Mount Vernon Woods Elementary Alexandria | 507 | 97.6% | 48.3% |
| Preston Park Elementary Roanoke | 535 | 98.3% | 40.5% |
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 Broad Rock Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Virginia | In Richmond city |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 50.6% | #967 of 1,101 | #12 of 26 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 58.0% | #921 of 1,111 ▼ 29 | #9 of 26 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 52.0% | #994 of 1,111 ▲ 22 | #14 of 26 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 612 | #339 of 1,176 | #3 of 26 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.8:1 | #733 of 1,105 | #13 of 24 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 50.9% | #745 of 1,106 | #11 of 25 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.3% | #172 of 1,157 | #15 of 26 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -32.7% | #29 of 759 | #6 of 24 |
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
612
-94 (-13%) vs 2020
+76% since 1990-91, when it was 347
Student : Teacher
14.8:1
was 17.2:1
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 | 612 | 41.4 | 14.8:1 | 99% (608) |
| 2023-24 | 581 | 37 | 15.7:1 | 100% (579) |
| 2022-23 | 634 | 51 | 12.4:1 | 99% (627) |
| 2020-21 | 706 | 41 | 17.2:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 910 | 54 | 16.9:1 | 98% (896) |
| 2015-16 | 885 | 40 | 22.1:1 | 97% (862) |
| 2010-11 | 359 | 20 | 17.9:1 | 80% (287) |
| 2000-01 | 415 | 25 | 16.6:1 | 66% (274) |
| 1990-91 | 347 | 21 | 16.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Broad Rock Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 33% (910 to 612); teachers down 23% (54 to 41.4).
About Broad Rock Elementary
Broad Rock Elementary sits in Richmond, Virginia, and is classified as an elementary school. The latest federal count shows 612 students in pre-K through 5. Against the 499-student average for elementary schools in Virginia, enrollment here is 23% higher.
The 47 schools in Richmond City Public Schools enroll 20,962 students altogether, Broad Rock Elementary among them.
At 59%, Hispanic students outnumber all other groups at Broad Rock Elementary combined. The remaining students are 38% Black. Among people living in Richmond city, the Hispanic share is about 11%. Broad Rock Elementary has a diversity index of 51%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Teachers at Broad Rock Elementary total 41.4 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 14.8:1. Among elementary schools in Virginia, the typical ratio is 13.8:1. Broad Rock Elementary's free or reduced-price lunch eligibility rate is 99%. That is close to the 99% average for public schools in Richmond city.
The allk12 Grade for Broad Rock Elementary is D. Compared with Virginia public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 14% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
On BeatsExpectations, Broad Rock Elementary is 10.4 points below its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of Virginia schools.
In the county around the school, Richmond city, median household income is about $64,587, roughly 46% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 12%. Broad Rock Elementary is among the 61 public schools in Richmond city.
The closest public school to Broad Rock Elementary is Thomas C. Boushall Middle, about 0.6 miles away. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. The nearest schools with test data average 41.3%, lower than Broad Rock Elementary's 50.6%.
The NCES locale for Broad Rock Elementary is City: Mid-size, which covers schools inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
The student count in 2024-25 was 612, 13% below the 706 of 2020-21. The school's ratio fell from 17.2:1 to 14.8:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
Conversations here can range across science fairs, picture day, and bus routes. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Richmond city at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
229,359
Census ACS
Median income
$64,587
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
46%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
61
20,253 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Richmond City Public Schools
- Huguenot HighHigh · 1,469 students
- River City MiddleMiddle · 1,150 students
- Richmond High School for the ArtsHigh · 1,116 students
- Cardinal ElementaryElementary · 821 students
- Thomas Jefferson HighHigh · 749 students
- Armstrong HighHigh · 709 students
Other schools in Richmond
- John Randolph Tucker HighHigh · 2,132 students
- Douglas S. Freeman HighHigh · 1,881 students
- Hermitage HighHigh · 1,719 students
- Mills E. Godwin HighHigh · 1,702 students
- Monacan HighHigh · 1,644 students
- Huguenot HighHigh · 1,469 students
Nearby schools
- Thomas C. Boushall Middle0.6 mi · 621
- J.L. Francis Elementary0.6 mi · 526
- Cardinal Elementary1.0 mi · 821
- Bensley Elementary1.3 mi · 615
- Falling Creek Middle1.4 mi · 1,443
- Falling Creek Elementary1.5 mi · 823
Frequently asked questions
About Broad Rock ElementaryHow many students attend Broad Rock Elementary?
Broad Rock Elementary enrolls approximately 612 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Broad Rock Elementary serve?
Broad Rock Elementary serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Broad Rock Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Broad Rock Elementary is approximately 14.8:1 (41 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Broad Rock Elementary?
At Broad Rock Elementary, the student body is approximately 2% White, 59% Hispanic, 38% Black, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees Broad Rock Elementary?
Broad Rock Elementary is overseen by Richmond City Public Schools in Richmond city.
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