Dinwiddie Elementary

Dinwiddie Elementary is an intimate primary school in Dinwiddie, Virginia, operated by Dinwiddie County Public Schools. The school caters to 341 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Virginia's public schools average about 499 students each, so Dinwiddie Elementary sits 32% below that benchmark.

Dinwiddie County Public Schools comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 4,147 students; Dinwiddie Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, Dinwiddie Elementary lists that White students make up the majority at 63%. Other groups include 26% Black, 6% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. About 95% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Dinwiddie Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 62.2%, the actual is 65.4%, a residual of +3.1 points.

In the area at large, census data for Dinwiddie County shows median household income runs about $83,704, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Dinwiddie County runs 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,147 students), of which Dinwiddie Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Dinwiddie County Middle, around 2.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Dinwiddie Elementary. On composite proficiency, Dinwiddie Elementary comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 59.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Looking at the recent track record. Dinwiddie Elementary's enrollment has showed little movement since 2018, when it stood at 346 (now 341). The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 1% to 6% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 in 2025.

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