Conway Elementary

Located at 105 Primmer House Road, in Fredericksburg, Virginia, Conway Elementary is a big elementary school that hosts 904 students (grades K through 5), operated by Stafford County Public Schools. By comparison, Virginia's public schools average about 499 students each, so Conway Elementary sits 81% larger than that benchmark.

Within Stafford County Public Schools, which oversees 32 schools and 31,812 students, Conway Elementary is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Conway Elementary lists that the most-represented group is White (39%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest reads as 22% Black, 20% Hispanic, 9% Asian, 8% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 54%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Conway Elementary reports 61 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.8:1. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 47% 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, Conway Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 75.2%; this one delivers 64.4%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Stafford County put median household earnings sit near $137,807, about 44% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. Conway Elementary is one of 41 public schools in Stafford County (combined enrollment of about 31,812 students).

Falmouth Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Conway Elementary comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 65.5%.

Conway Elementary operates from a bedroom-community location.

Five-year trend. Conway Elementary's enrollment has climbed 14% since 2018, when it stood at 792 (now 904). White enrollment moved from 59% to 39% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 20.6:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 today.

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