Elizabeth Holladay Elementary

Elizabeth Holladay Elementary is a K-5 school of well-populated scale in Richmond, Virginia, operated by Henrico County Public Schools, instructing 859 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 72% above the state mean of about 499.

Henrico County Public Schools runs 69 schools in total, collectively educating 51,044 students. Elizabeth Holladay Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Elizabeth Holladay Elementary shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (46%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder reads as 27% Black, 16% White, 6% Asian, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Henrico County as a whole is about 7% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Elizabeth Holladay Elementary logs 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting Elizabeth Holladay Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 90% of students at Elizabeth Holladay Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Henrico County's rate of about 67%.

With demographic context factored in, Elizabeth Holladay Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 63.6%; this one delivers 50.7%.

In the area at large, Henrico County reports that median household income runs about $88,783, 47% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Henrico County runs 84 public schools (combined enrollment of about 51,753 students), of which Elizabeth Holladay Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is George H. Moody Middle, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Elizabeth Holladay Elementary at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 61.3%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 39%: 620 students in 2018 compared to 859 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 26% to 16% across the same window.

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