Brosville Elementary

Brosville Elementary operates as a low-enrollment elementary campus in Danville, Virginia, one of the schools within Pittsylvania County Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 219 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 56% leaner than the typical public school in Virginia, which averages around 499 students.

Pittsylvania County Public Schools runs 18 schools in total, collectively educating 7,830 students. Brosville Elementary is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Brosville Elementary logs that White students make up the majority at 62%; the rest breaks down as 31% Black, 5% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Pittsylvania County as a whole is about 74% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting Brosville Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 89% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Brosville Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 64.0%, the actual is 67.9%, a residual of +3.9 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Pittsylvania County put median household earnings sit near $54,085, about 16% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Pittsylvania County's 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,830 students), Brosville Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Stony Mill Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.7 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Brosville Elementary comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 63.8%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Five-year trend. Brosville Elementary's enrollment has ticked down 19% since 2018, when it stood at 270 (now 219). Over the same period, the Hispanic share fell from 9% to 5%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 11.5:1 today.

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