Chase City Elementary

Chase City Elementary is a tight-knit elementary school in Chase City, Virginia, part of Mecklenburg County Public Schools. The school hosts 396 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 21% smaller than the typical public school in Virginia, which averages around 499 students.

Within Mecklenburg County Public Schools, which oversees 6 schools and 3,907 students, Chase City Elementary is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Chase City Elementary lists that Black students make up the majority at 59%; the rest breaks down as 22% White, 13% multiracial, 6% Hispanic. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 32%.

On the resource side, The school lists 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. About 95% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Chase City Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 62.3%, the actual is 58.1%, a residual of -4.1 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Mecklenburg County shows the typical household earns roughly $57,045 per year, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Chase City Elementary is one of 7 public schools in Mecklenburg County (combined enrollment of about 3,907 students).

The closest other public school is Bacon District Elementary, roughly 7.3 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Chase City Elementary ranks 8th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 73.4%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Chase City Elementary has decreased 7%, going from 425 students in 2018 to 396 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 36% to 22% across the same window. Class-load math has widened: from 13.3:1 in 2018 to 16.5:1 in 2025.

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