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Enrollment
497
Elementary
DISTRICT 503 · STATE 499
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HENRICO COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 510189002788
Harvie Elementary
3401 Harvie Road, Richmond, VA 23223 · (804) 343-7010 · Henrico County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL497 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 32% of Virginia public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Virginia public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.4:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.0:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
89%
443 students
DISTRICT 75% · STATE 66%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 35 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 71 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 79 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 73 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 74 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 78 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 87 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (71) is 18% smaller than its 5th grade class (87).
Student demographics
21%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 74% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
SOL 2024-25 . % PassingEnglish Language Arts
69.0%
VA avg 74.2% . +9.0pp since 2022
Math
66.0%
VA avg 72.7% . +3.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 69 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 66 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Virginia schools, those numbers are about 74 and 73. Reading and writing scores are up about 9 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 3 points.
SOL results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 69.0% | 66.0% |
| 2023-24 | 63.0% | 62.0% |
| 2022-23 | 60.0% | 63.0% |
% Passing, all students and all tested grades.
Source: SOL. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
62.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
63.8%
based on VA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 63% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 64% typical for Virginia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Virginia's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Harvie Elementary
Harvie Elementary's state test result (62.5% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harvie Elementary this school | 497 | 89.1% | 62.5% |
| Glen Lea Elementary Richmond | 461 | 88.7% | 37.0% |
| George F. Baker Elementary Richmond | 462 | 86.8% | 55.2% |
| Harold Macon Ratcliffe Elementary Richmond | 417 | 89.7% | 36.3% |
| Highland Springs Elementary Highland Springs | 469 | 89.3% | 34.7% |
| Laburnum Elementary Richmond | 466 | 89.3% | 35.5% |
Matched among Virginia elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Harvie Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Virginia | In Henrico County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 62.5% | #782 of 1,101 | #25 of 45 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 66.0% | #762 of 1,111 ▲ 38 | #23 of 45 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 69.0% | #627 of 1,111 ▲ 159 | #20 of 45 ▲ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 497 | #589 of 1,176 | #24 of 46 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.4:1 | #432 of 1,105 | #11 of 46 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 21.2% | #1,038 of 1,106 | #42 of 46 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 89.1% | #353 of 1,157 | #22 of 46 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -18.1% | #222 of 759 | #4 of 26 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
497
-45 (-8%) vs 2020
-5% since 2010-11, when it was 521
Student : Teacher
13.4:1
was 15.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 497 | 37 | 13.4:1 | 89% (443) |
| 2023-24 | 530 | 38 | 13.9:1 | 92% (490) |
| 2022-23 | 495 | 37 | 13.4:1 | 90% (445) |
| 2020-21 | 542 | 35 | 15.5:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 607 | 34.5 | 17.6:1 | 69% (417) |
| 2015-16 | 619 | 31 | 20.0:1 | 68% (419) |
| 2010-11 | 521 | 34 | 15.3:1 | 63% (330) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Harvie Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 18% (607 to 497); teachers up 7% (34.5 to 37).
About Harvie Elementary
Harvie Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school in Richmond, Virginia, one of the schools in Henrico County Public Schools. Enrollment totals 497 students across pre-K through 5.
Henrico County Public Schools has 51,044 students in 69 schools, and Harvie Elementary is one of those schools.
Black students account for 89% of the school's enrollment. Beyond that, enrollment is 5% multiracial and 3% Hispanic. The Black share of the county population is lower, at 29%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 21%.
Its ratio of 13.4:1 is based on 37 full-time-equivalent teachers. It is about the same as the 13.8:1 average for elementary schools in Virginia. In all, 89% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Across public schools in Henrico County, the average is 67%.
Harvie Elementary holds a C allk12 Grade, placing it above 32% of Virginia public elementary schools.
The BeatsExpectations prediction for Harvie Elementary is 63.8%, and its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 62.5%.
The school is in Henrico County, where median household income comes to about $88,783, 47% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Henrico County counts 84 public schools with about 51,753 students.
Harvie Elementary is about 0.6 miles from Harold Macon Ratcliffe Elementary, its nearest public school. Harvie Elementary has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Harvie Elementary's average proficiency of 62.5% compares with 44.8% for its nearest scored neighbors.
NCES assigns Harvie Elementary the locale Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment was 497 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, it was 542. The student-to-teacher ratio dropped from 15.5:1 in 2020-21 to 13.4:1 in 2024-25.
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Henrico County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
335,744
Census ACS
Median income
$88,783
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
47%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
84
51,753 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Henrico County Public Schools
- John Randolph Tucker HighHigh · 2,132 students
- Deep Run HighHigh · 1,992 students
- Glen Allen HighHigh · 1,939 students
- Highland Springs HighHigh · 1,928 students
- Douglas S. Freeman HighHigh · 1,881 students
- Hermitage HighHigh · 1,719 students
Other schools in Richmond
- John Randolph Tucker HighHigh · 2,132 students
- Douglas S. Freeman HighHigh · 1,881 students
- Hermitage HighHigh · 1,719 students
- Mills E. Godwin HighHigh · 1,702 students
- Monacan HighHigh · 1,644 students
- Huguenot HighHigh · 1,469 students
Nearby schools
- Harold Macon Ratcliffe Elementary0.6 mi · 417
- Arthur Ashe Jr. Elementary0.9 mi · 425
- Glen Lea Elementary1.3 mi · 461
- Armstrong High1.8 mi · 709
- Fairfield Court Elementary1.9 mi · 222
- Fairfield Middle2.0 mi · 936
Frequently asked questions
About Harvie ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Harvie Elementary?
Harvie Elementary enrolls approximately 497 students in grades PK-05.
Is Harvie Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Harvie Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Harvie Elementary have?
Harvie Elementary employs 37 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.4:1.
How diverse is Harvie Elementary?
Harvie Elementary reports a student body of 1% White, 3% Hispanic, 89% Black, 2% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is Harvie Elementary public or private?
Harvie Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Henrico County Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.