Harrington Waddell Elementary

Harrington Waddell Elementary is a primary school of modestly sized scale in Lexington, Virginia, operated by Lexington City Public Schools, educateing 350 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 30% below the typical public school in Virginia, which averages around 499 students.

Lexington City Public Schools comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 537 students; Harrington Waddell Elementary is among them.

On demographics, Harrington Waddell Elementary lists that the largest single group is White, at 76% of enrollment; the rest looks like 7% multiracial, 6% Black, 6% Hispanic, 5% Asian.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting Harrington Waddell Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 25% of students at Harrington Waddell Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Lexington city's rate of about 61%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Harrington Waddell Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 81.2%; this one delivers 92.3%.

In the area at large, census data for Lexington city shows the typical household earns roughly $84,517 per year, about 51% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Across Lexington city's 4 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,484 students), Harrington Waddell Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Maury River Middle, around 0.8 miles off. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Harrington Waddell Elementary at 1st of 8; the average score across the group is 74.4%.

The school occupies a town-based site.

Five-year trend. Harrington Waddell Elementary's enrollment has increased 12% since 2018, when it stood at 313 (now 350).

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