Chesterfield Virtual School

Set in Chesterfield, Virginia, Chesterfield Virtual School is an average-sized elementary campus, operated by Chesterfield County Public Schools. It caters to 440 students across grades K through 8.

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

Demographically, Chesterfield Virtual School logs that the most-represented group is Black (46%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest reads as 25% White, 18% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Chesterfield County as a whole is about 23% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Chesterfield County) reports that median household income runs about $101,931, roughly 44% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Chesterfield County runs 76 public schools (combined enrollment of about 64,194 students), of which Chesterfield Virtual School is one.

O.B. Gates Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Chesterfield Virtual School operates from a bedroom-community location. As a virtual school, attendance and instruction happen remotely rather than in person.

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