Craigsville Elementary

Craigsville Elementary, a rural-scale primary school in Craigsville, Virginia, run under Augusta County Public Schools, hosts 117 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 77% leaner than the typical public school in Virginia, which averages around 499 students.

Across the 20 schools in Augusta County Public Schools (10,742 students total), Craigsville Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Craigsville Elementary lists that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest comes out to 9% multiracial, 5% Hispanic.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.8:1. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 100% of students at Craigsville Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Augusta County's rate of about 67%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Craigsville Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 60.9%, the actual is 50.0%, a residual of -10.9 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Augusta County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $82,049 per year, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Augusta County runs 25 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,742 students), of which Craigsville Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Buffalo Gap High, around 11.7 miles off. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Craigsville Elementary at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 73.5%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Five-year trend. Craigsville Elementary's enrollment has decreased 22% since 2018, when it stood at 150 (now 117). The White share of enrollment shrank from 87% to 82% over that span.

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