Coventry Elementary

Coventry Elementary, a mid-sized elementary campus in Yorktown, Virginia, one of the schools within York County Public Schools, hosts 630 students, covering grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 499 students per school, that is 26% bigger than typical.

Across the 19 schools in York County Public Schools (13,105 students total), Coventry Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Coventry Elementary records that the most-represented group is White (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 17% Asian, 14% Black, 11% multiracial, 11% Hispanic. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 68%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting Coventry Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Around 35% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Coventry Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 78.6%, the actual is 84.4%, a residual of +5.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for York County indicate median household income runs about $109,956, roughly 50% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, York County runs 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,105 students), of which Coventry Elementary is one.

Tabb Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Coventry Elementary. On composite proficiency, Coventry Elementary comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 78.8%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 11%: 567 students in 2018 compared to 630 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 55% to 45% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 19.2:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 in 2025.

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