Crystal Spring Elementary

Crystal Spring Elementary operates as an intimate primary school in Roanoke, Virginia, overseen by Roanoke City Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 323 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 499 students per school, that is 35% smaller than typical.

Roanoke City Public Schools comprises 24 schools with combined enrollment of 13,811 students; Crystal Spring Elementary is among them.

Looking at the student body, Crystal Spring Elementary logs that 81% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder breaks down as 7% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 6% Black. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 57%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting Crystal Spring Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. About 101% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Crystal Spring Elementary sits in the top 10% of Virginia schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 60.6%; actual is 85.3%, +24.6 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the area at large, census data for Roanoke city shows the typical household earns roughly $55,378 per year, about 30% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. In all, Roanoke city runs 30 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,392 students), of which Crystal Spring Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Fishburn Park Elementary, around 1.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Crystal Spring Elementary. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Crystal Spring Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 60.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 6%: 344 students in 2018 compared to 323 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 87% to 81% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 15.0:1 today.

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