Fishburn Park Elementary

As a tight-knit K-5 school in Roanoke, Virginia, Fishburn Park Elementary hosts 279 students from grades pre-K through 5, part of Roanoke City Public Schools. Compared to the state average of about 499 students per school, that is 44% below typical.

Roanoke City Public Schools runs 24 schools in total, collectively educating 13,811 students. Fishburn Park Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Fishburn Park Elementary lists that 45% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest looks like 30% Black, 11% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 4% Asian. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 57%.

On the income-and-resources front, Fishburn Park Elementary shows 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. About 102% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Fishburn Park Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 60.4%; this one delivers 60.8%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Roanoke city) logs that median household income runs about $55,378, roughly 30% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. In all, Roanoke city runs 30 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,392 students), of which Fishburn Park Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is James Madison Middle, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Fishburn Park Elementary at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 69.3%.

Fishburn Park Elementary operates from an urban location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 13%: 321 students in 2018 compared to 279 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 38% to 30% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 10.1:1 today.

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