Callaway Elementary

Callaway Elementary, an one-room-style elementary school in Callaway, Virginia, run under Franklin County Public Schools, educates 185 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Virginia's public schools average about 499 students each, so Callaway Elementary sits 63% smaller than that benchmark.

Franklin County Public Schools comprises 14 schools with combined enrollment of 6,540 students; Callaway Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, Callaway Elementary records that 81% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder looks like 10% multiracial, 8% Hispanic.

On the resource side, On paper, Callaway Elementary has 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. About 88% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Callaway Elementary ranks in the top 10% of Virginia public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 64.1%; Callaway Elementary posts 90.6%, +26.5 points above that line.

Around the school, Franklin County reports that the typical household earns roughly $68,849 per year, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Franklin County's 14 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,540 students), Callaway Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Ferrum Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 6.2 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 6 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, Callaway Elementary comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 71.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 24%: 244 students in 2018 compared to 185 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 85% to 81% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 10.1:1 today.

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