G.H. Reid Elementary

G.H. Reid Elementary, a medium-sized elementary campus in Richmond, Virginia, overseen by Richmond City Public Schools, hosts 671 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Virginia's public schools average about 499 students each, so G.H. Reid Elementary sits 34% above that benchmark.

Richmond City Public Schools runs 47 schools in total, collectively educating 20,962 students. G.H. Reid Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, G.H. Reid Elementary logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 61%. The remainder breaks down as 37% Black. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 11%.

On the income-and-resources front, G.H. Reid Elementary lists 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. About 99% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), G.H. Reid Elementary is in the bottom 10% of Virginia public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 61.1%; G.H. Reid Elementary posts 39.5%, -21.6 points below that line.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Richmond city) logs that median household earnings sit near $64,587, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. G.H. Reid Elementary is one of 61 public schools in Richmond city (combined enrollment of about 20,253 students).

River City Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, G.H. Reid Elementary comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 46.4%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Over the past 7-year window. G.H. Reid Elementary's enrollment has edged down 4% since 2018, when it stood at 700 (now 671). Hispanic enrollment moved from 50% to 61% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 18.4:1 in 2018 to 16.5:1 in 2025.

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