Elizabeth D. Redd Elementary

As an intimate elementary school in Richmond, Virginia, Elizabeth D. Redd Elementary teaches 355 students from grades pre-K through 5, run under Richmond City Public Schools. Enrollment runs roughly 29% below the state mean of about 499.

Within Richmond City Public Schools, which oversees 47 schools and 20,962 students, Elizabeth D. Redd Elementary is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Elizabeth D. Redd Elementary reports that the most-represented group is Black (46%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 45% Hispanic, 6% White, 3% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.3:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 100% of students at Elizabeth D. Redd Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, Elizabeth D. Redd Elementary is in the bottom 10% of Virginia public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 61.0%; Elizabeth D. Redd Elementary posts 45.3%, -15.7 points below that line.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Richmond city indicate median household earnings sit near $64,587, roughly 46% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Elizabeth D. Redd Elementary is one of 61 public schools in Richmond city (combined enrollment of about 20,253 students).

The closest other public school is Westover Hills Elementary, roughly 0.7 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Elizabeth D. Redd Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 48.0%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 16%: 422 students in 2018 compared to 355 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share fell from 61% to 46%. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.2:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 in 2025.

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