Edwin A. Gibson Elementary

Edwin A. Gibson Elementary, a mid-tier elementary school in Danville, Virginia, overseen by Danville City Public Schools, enrolls 466 students, covering grades K through 5.

Danville City Public Schools comprises 13 schools with combined enrollment of 5,564 students; Edwin A. Gibson Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Edwin A. Gibson Elementary lists that 71% of the student body identifies as Black. The remainder comes out to 14% Hispanic, 10% White, 5% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 51%.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 95% of students at Edwin A. Gibson Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, Edwin A. Gibson Elementary sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 62.3%; actual is 28.5%, a gap of -33.8 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Danville city indicate median household earnings sit near $44,423, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 19%. Across Danville city's 20 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,564 students), Edwin A. Gibson Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Grove Park Preschool, roughly 0.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Edwin A. Gibson Elementary. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Edwin A. Gibson Elementary ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 59.7%.

Edwin A. Gibson Elementary operates from a town-based location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Edwin A. Gibson Elementary has fell 16%, going from 558 students in 2018 to 466 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 7% to 14% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 today.

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