Fair Oaks Elementary

Fair Oaks Elementary is a K-5 school of compact scale in Highland Springs, Virginia, one of the schools within Henrico County Public Schools, teacheing 330 students in grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 499 students per school, that is 34% smaller than typical.

Fair Oaks Elementary is one of 69 schools operated by Henrico County Public Schools, a district that serves 51,044 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Fair Oaks Elementary logs that Black students make up the majority at 74%. Beyond that, the school records 11% White, 9% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 29%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting Fair Oaks Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 88% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Henrico County (around 67%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Fair Oaks Elementary sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 64.1%; actual is 39.2%, a gap of -24.9 points.

Around the school, Henrico County reports that median household income runs about $88,783, about 47% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 Fair Oaks Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Highland Springs High, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Fair Oaks Elementary. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Fair Oaks Elementary ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 52.0%.

Fair Oaks Elementary operates from an outer-ring location.

Looking at the recent track record. Fair Oaks Elementary's enrollment has contracted 14% since 2018, when it stood at 384 (now 330). Over the same period, the White share shrank from 20% to 11%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 today.

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