Cedar Bluff Elementary

Cedar Bluff Elementary is an elementary-level community of cozy scale in Cedar Bluff, Virginia, overseen by Tazewell County Public Schools, caters to 308 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Virginia's public schools average about 499 students each, so Cedar Bluff Elementary sits 38% below that benchmark.

Within Tazewell County Public Schools, which oversees 13 schools and 5,134 students, Cedar Bluff Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Cedar Bluff Elementary lists that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Compared to Tazewell County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, On paper, Cedar Bluff Elementary has 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 92% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, Cedar Bluff Elementary is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 63.2%; this one delivers 84.6%, a residual of +21.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Tazewell County) records that median household income runs about $47,313, 17% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Across Tazewell County's 14 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,134 students), Cedar Bluff Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Richlands High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Cedar Bluff Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Cedar Bluff Elementary at 4th of 9; the average score across the group is 81.9%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 28%: 427 students in 2018 compared to 308 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 20.8:1 in 2018 to 14.0:1 today.

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