Colonial Elementary

Colonial Elementary operates as a mid-sized elementary campus in Troutville, Virginia, overseen by Botetourt County Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 439 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 11 schools in Botetourt County Public Schools (4,424 students total), Colonial Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Colonial Elementary logs that nearly all students (86%) are White. Beyond that, the school shows 6% multiracial, 5% Hispanic.

On the resource side, The school employs 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.3:1. The state averages about 13.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 36% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Colonial Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 78.3%, the actual is 89.3%, a residual of +10.9 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Botetourt County indicate the typical household earns roughly $81,213 per year, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. Across Botetourt County's 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,424 students), Colonial Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Bonsack Elementary, roughly 2.7 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Colonial Elementary. On composite proficiency, Colonial Elementary comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 80.6%.

Colonial Elementary operates from a bedroom-community location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Colonial Elementary has ticked up 16%, going from 379 students in 2018 to 439 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 17.6:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 today.

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