C.C. Wells Elementary

C.C. Wells Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus in Chester, Virginia, part of Chesterfield County Public Schools. The school instructs 606 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 21% above the state mean of about 499.

Chesterfield County Public Schools runs 65 schools in total, collectively educating 64,194 students. C.C. Wells Elementary is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, C.C. Wells Elementary logs that 41% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest consists of 33% White, 14% Hispanic, 10% multiracial. By comparison, Chesterfield County as a whole is about 23% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.1:1. The state averages about 13.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 77% of students at C.C. Wells Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Chesterfield County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, C.C. Wells Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 67.1%, the actual is 66.8%, a residual of -0.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Chesterfield County shows median household income runs about $101,931, about 44% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. C.C. Wells Elementary is one of 76 public schools in Chesterfield County (combined enrollment of about 64,194 students).

Nearest neighbor: C.E. Curtis Elementary, around 1.7 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts C.C. Wells Elementary at 3rd of 7; the average score across the group is 61.8%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Trend over the last 7 years. C.C. Wells Elementary's enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 618 (now 606). Over the same period, the White share decreased from 50% to 33%. Class-load math has fell: from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 in 2025.

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