Crestwood Elementary

Crestwood Elementary operates as a reasonably sized elementary school in Richmond, Virginia, one of the schools within Chesterfield County Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 635 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Virginia's public schools average about 499 students each, so Crestwood Elementary sits 27% above that benchmark.

Chesterfield County Public Schools comprises 65 schools with combined enrollment of 64,194 students; Crestwood Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, Crestwood Elementary lists that 37% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 34% White, 20% Black, 6% multiracial, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 12% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 77% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Chesterfield County's rate of about 54%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Crestwood Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 67.2%; this one delivers 66.4%.

In the surrounding community, Chesterfield County reports that the typical household earns roughly $101,931 per year, 44% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Chesterfield County runs 76 public schools (combined enrollment of about 64,194 students), of which Crestwood Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Huguenot High, roughly 0.4 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Crestwood Elementary comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 49.8%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Crestwood Elementary has expanded 13%, going from 563 students in 2018 to 635 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 40% to 34% across the same window.

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