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Enrollment
852
Elementary
DISTRICT 513 · STATE 499
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HANOVER COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 510183001617
Cool Spring Elementary
9964 Honey Meadows Rd, Mechanicsville, VA 23116 · (804) 723-3560 · Hanover County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL852 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 65% of Virginia public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Virginia public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.2:1
56 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.3:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
14%
118 students
DISTRICT 40% · STATE 66%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 1 | 0% |
| Kindergarten | 149 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 142 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 123 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 143 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 156 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 138 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (149) is 8% larger than its 5th grade class (138).
Student demographics
52%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 48% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
SOL 2024-25 . % PassingEnglish Language Arts
83.0%
VA avg 74.2% . +0.0pp since 2022
Math
88.0%
VA avg 72.7% . +2.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 83 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 88 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Virginia schools, those numbers are about 74 and 73. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2022, while math scores are up about 2 points.
SOL results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 83.0% | 88.0% |
| 2023-24 | 81.0% | 86.0% |
| 2022-23 | 83.0% | 86.0% |
% Passing, all students and all tested grades.
Source: SOL. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
83.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
84.3%
based on VA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 84% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 84% typical for Virginia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Virginia's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Cool Spring Elementary
Cool Spring Elementary's state test result (83.9% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cool Spring Elementary this school | 852 | 13.8% | 83.9% |
| Woolridge Elementary Midlothian | 813 | 11.1% | 87.1% |
| Union Mill Elementary Clifton | 874 | 12.5% | 82.0% |
| J.B. Watkins Elementary Midlothian | 913 | 17.5% | 89.9% |
| Silverbrook Elementary Fairfax Station | 799 | 8.1% | 88.8% |
| Fairview Elementary Fairfax Station | 751 | 10.8% | 85.8% |
Matched among Virginia elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Cool Spring Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Virginia | In Hanover County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 83.9% | #207 of 1,101 | #5 of 14 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 88.0% | #168 of 1,111 ▲ 13 | #4 of 14 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 83.0% | #236 of 1,111 ▲ 52 | #4 of 14 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 852 | #51 of 1,176 | #1 of 16 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.2:1 | #813 of 1,105 | #16 of 16 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 52.2% | #726 of 1,106 | #7 of 16 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 13.8% | #1,083 of 1,157 | #16 of 16 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +28.9% | #30 of 324 | N/A |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
852
+205 (+32%) vs 2020
-5% since 2000-01, when it was 900
Student : Teacher
15.2:1
was 21.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 852 | 56 | 15.2:1 | 14% (118) |
| 2023-24 | 803 | 53 | 15.2:1 | 14% (110) |
| 2022-23 | 778 | 48 | 16.2:1 | 11% (88) |
| 2020-21 | 647 | 30 | 21.6:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 661 | 42.1 | 15.7:1 | 7% (48) |
| 2015-16 | 655 | 44 | 14.9:1 | 8% (50) |
| 2010-11 | 716 | 36 | 19.9:1 | 5% (34) |
| 2000-01 | 900 | 53 | 17.0:1 | 2% (14) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Cool Spring Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 29% (661 to 852); teachers up 33% (42.1 to 56).
About Cool Spring Elementary
Cool Spring Elementary is classified as an elementary school. It is located in Mechanicsville, Virginia. The student body numbers 852 students, from pre-K through 5. An average school in this group (elementary schools in Virginia) has about 499 students.
Cool Spring Elementary is among 24 schools run by Hanover County Public Schools, which serves 17,434 students.
Cool Spring Elementary is 67% White by enrollment. Other students are 13% Asian, 9% multiracial, 7% Black, and 4% Hispanic. By comparison, Hanover County residents are about 82% White. The school's diversity index is 52%, meaning two students picked at random have a 52% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
The count of teachers at Cool Spring Elementary is 56 full-time equivalents, for a ratio of 15.2:1. That is higher than the 13.8:1 average for elementary schools in Virginia. The school counts 118 students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, or 14%. On average, public schools in Hanover County report 34%.
Measured against Virginia public elementary schools, Cool Spring Elementary receives a B+. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
In Virginia, Cool Spring Elementary is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 83.9% actual against a predicted 84.3%.
County data help place the school in context: in Hanover County, the median household income is $112,805, roughly 43% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Hanover County is home to 26 public schools and about 17,434 public school students.
The closest public school to Cool Spring Elementary is Chickahominy Middle, about 0.2 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. On proficiency, Cool Spring Elementary is ahead of the 82.6% nearby average, ranking 6th of 9.
The school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (Suburb: Large).
Cool Spring Elementary's enrollment climbed from 647 in 2020-21 to 852 in 2024-25. Students per teacher fell from 21.6 in 2020-21 to 15.2 in 2024-25.
The Cool Spring Elementary community page is open for posts about sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Hanover County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
112,879
Census ACS
Median income
$112,805
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
43%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
26
17,434 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Hanover County Public Schools
- Atlee HighHigh · 1,470 students
- Hanover HighHigh · 1,349 students
- Patrick Henry HighHigh · 1,294 students
- Mechanicsville HighHigh · 1,245 students
- Chickahominy MiddleMiddle · 1,199 students
- Liberty MiddleMiddle · 910 students
Other schools in Mechanicsville
- Atlee HighHigh · 1,470 students
- Hanover HighHigh · 1,349 students
- Mechanicsville HighHigh · 1,245 students
- Chickahominy MiddleMiddle · 1,199 students
- Bell Creek MiddleMiddle · 903 students
- Oak Knoll MiddleMiddle · 862 students
Other Cool Spring Elementary schools
4 other US public schools in 3 states are named Cool Spring Elementary. Cool Spring Elementary is the largest of the 5.
- Cool Spring ElementaryLeesburg, VA · 591 students
- Cool Spring ElementaryPetersburg, VA · 540 students
- Cool Spring ElementaryAdelphi, MD · 458 students
- Cool Spring ElementaryCleveland, NC · 447 students
Nearby schools
- Chickahominy Middle0.2 mi · 1,199
- Atlee High0.3 mi · 1,470
- Pearson's Corner Elementary1.4 mi · 571
- Oak Knoll Middle1.9 mi · 862
- Kersey Creek Elementary1.9 mi · 672
- Hanover High2.0 mi · 1,349
Frequently asked questions
About Cool Spring ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Cool Spring Elementary?
Cool Spring Elementary enrolls approximately 852 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Cool Spring Elementary serve?
Cool Spring Elementary serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Cool Spring Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Cool Spring Elementary is approximately 15.2:1 (56 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Cool Spring Elementary?
Student demographics at Cool Spring Elementary are roughly 67% White, 4% Hispanic, 7% Black, 13% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Is Cool Spring Elementary public or private?
Cool Spring Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Hanover County Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.