Burlington Elementary

Burlington Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school with an address in Roanoke, Virginia. Enrollment stands at 530 students, covering pre-K through 5.

Roanoke County Public Schools runs 26 schools with a combined 13,735 students. Burlington Elementary is one of them.

The largest racial or ethnic group at Burlington Elementary is White, with 37% of students. Other groups include 27% Hispanic, 20% Black, 9% multiracial, and 6% Asian. The county population is about 83% White. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Burlington Elementary scores 73%.

For every teacher at Burlington Elementary, there are about 14.5 students; the school has 36.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. It is about the same as the 13.8:1 average for elementary schools in Virginia. There are 477 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 90% of enrollment. Across public schools in Roanoke County, the average is 49%.

Burlington Elementary is 6.3 points above its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (69.9% versus 63.6%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Virginia.

In the wider Roanoke County area, median household income comes to about $83,709, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 4% of people live in poverty. Roanoke County's 26 public schools enroll about 13,154 students and include Burlington Elementary.

Mountain View Elementary is about 1.5 miles from Burlington Elementary, the shortest distance to any other public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Among the 9 closest schools with test data, this one included, Burlington Elementary ranks 4th on average proficiency.

The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Suburb: Mid-size, meaning it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.

In 2020-21, Burlington Elementary enrolled 443 students. By 2024-25, that number had grown to 530. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (14.5:1) than in 2020-21 (16.4:1).

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