Fries Elementary

As a tight-knit primary school in Fries, Virginia, Fries Elementary enrolls 231 students from grades pre-K through 7, part of Grayson County Public Schools. By comparison, Virginia's public schools average about 499 students each, so Fries Elementary sits 54% leaner than that benchmark.

Grayson County Public Schools comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 1,561 students; Fries Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Fries Elementary reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (90%). Beyond that, the school lists 4% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. Roughly 96% of students at Fries Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Fries Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 62.1%, the actual is 69.1%, a residual of +7.1 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Grayson County shows the typical household earns roughly $47,730 per year, 16% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Fries Elementary is one of 7 public schools in Grayson County (combined enrollment of about 1,561 students).

The closest other public school is Galax Elementary, roughly 4.7 miles away. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Fries Elementary ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 70.8%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Fries Elementary has decreased 3%, going from 238 students in 2018 to 231 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share decreased from 8% to 4%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 9.1:1 today.

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