Glade Hill Elementary

Glade Hill Elementary operates as a low-enrollment elementary school in Glade Hill, Virginia, run under Franklin County Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 227 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 55% leaner than the typical public school in Virginia, which averages around 499 students.

Franklin County Public Schools comprises 14 schools with combined enrollment of 6,540 students; Glade Hill Elementary is among them.

On demographics, Glade Hill Elementary shows that 77% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder looks like 12% Hispanic, 5% Black, 5% multiracial. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 86%.

In terms of school funding signals, Glade Hill Elementary reports 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.6:1. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 87% of students at Glade Hill Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, Glade Hill Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 64.4%, the actual is 72.1%, a residual of +7.8 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Franklin County indicate the typical household earns roughly $68,849 per year, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Franklin County's 14 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,540 students), Glade Hill Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Dudley Elementary, around 6.3 miles off. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Glade Hill Elementary comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 73.0%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Glade Hill Elementary has contracted 17%, going from 272 students in 2018 to 227 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 10.6:1 today.

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