Elkton Elementary

Elkton Elementary operates as a cozy elementary campus in Elkton, Virginia, one of the schools within Rockingham County Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 269 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 46% leaner than the state mean of about 499.

Rockingham County Public Schools runs 23 schools in total, collectively educating 11,679 students. Elkton Elementary is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Elkton Elementary logs that 78% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 11% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 3% Black.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. About 74% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Rockingham County (around 54%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Elkton Elementary falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 68.1%; this one comes in at 47.4%, -20.7 points off the demographic line.

In the surrounding community, Rockingham County reports that median household earnings sit near $80,693, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Elkton Elementary is one of 22 public schools in Rockingham County (combined enrollment of about 11,397 students).

Elkton Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Elkton Elementary. On composite proficiency, Elkton Elementary comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 66.2%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Elkton Elementary has declined 31%, going from 390 students in 2018 to 269 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 89% to 78% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 12.1:1 in 2025.

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