Ettrick Elementary

Ettrick Elementary is one of the moderately sized elementary schools in Ettrick, Virginia, one of the schools within Chesterfield County Public Schools, with 560 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

Chesterfield County Public Schools comprises 65 schools with combined enrollment of 64,194 students; Ettrick Elementary is among them.

On demographics, Ettrick Elementary logs that 64% of the student body identifies as Black. The remainder breaks down as 19% White, 11% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Chesterfield County as a whole is about 23% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Ettrick Elementary has 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.0:1. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 75% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Chesterfield County (around 54%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Ettrick Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 67.6%; this one delivers 65.4%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Chesterfield County indicate median household earnings sit near $101,931, 44% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Ettrick Elementary is one of 76 public schools in Chesterfield County (combined enrollment of about 64,194 students).

Nearest neighbor: Colonial Heights Middle, around 1.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Ettrick Elementary at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 55.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Ettrick Elementary has ticked down 4%, going from 584 students in 2018 to 560 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 26% to 19% over that span.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for Ettrick Elementary typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.