Dupont Elementary

Dupont Elementary is an elementary campus of reasonably sized scale in Hopewell, Virginia, one of the schools within Hopewell City Public Schools, educateing 589 students in grades K through 5.

Hopewell City Public Schools runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 3,949 students. Dupont Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Dupont Elementary records that the largest single group is Black at 51%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 20% Hispanic, 19% White, 10% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Dupont Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 60.8%, the actual is 50.8%, a residual of -10.1 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Hopewell city) logs that median household income runs about $54,729, about 14% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 18%. Dupont Elementary is one of 7 public schools in Hopewell city (combined enrollment of about 3,949 students).

Hopewell High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Dupont Elementary. On composite proficiency, Dupont Elementary comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 59.1%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Dupont Elementary's enrollment has shrank 10% since 2018, when it stood at 655 (now 589). The White share of enrollment edged down from 29% to 19% over that span.

Inside the community feed, the feed for Dupont Elementary typically covers school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.