Castlewood Elementary

Castlewood Elementary is one of the small elementary campuss in Castlewood, Virginia, run under Russell County Public Schools, with 354 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 7. Enrollment runs roughly 29% below the state mean of about 499.

Across the 11 schools in Russell County Public Schools (3,583 students total), Castlewood Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Castlewood Elementary logs that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 2% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Russell County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, Castlewood Elementary lists 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. Roughly 92% of students at Castlewood Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Castlewood Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 63.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 63.3%.

Across the wider county, census data for Russell County shows median household income runs about $50,012, roughly 13% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Russell County runs 14 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,583 students), of which Castlewood Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Castlewood High, roughly 0.1 miles away. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Castlewood Elementary comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 80.0%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 20%: 442 students in 2018 compared to 354 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 10.7:1 in 2025.

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