Henry Clay Elementary

Henry Clay Elementary is an elementary school located in Ashland, Virginia, in Hanover County. It enrolls 359 students in 2023-24. The grades offered are pre-K through 2. That is 28% below the average of about 499 students for elementary schools in Virginia.

Henry Clay Elementary is one school in Hanover County Public Schools, a system of 24 schools with 17,434 students.

The student body at Henry Clay Elementary has no majority group. White students lead at 49%. Other groups make up 20% Hispanic, 20% Black, and 11% multiracial. Hanover County as a whole is about 82% White, so the school's share is lower. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 67, compared with 70 nationally.

Henry Clay Elementary has 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 11.7:1. Elementary schools in Virginia have an average ratio of 13.8:1. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 88%. Public schools in Hanover County average 34%.

The county, Hanover County, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $112,805 a year, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 4% of people live in poverty. Hanover County has 26 public schools with about 17,434 students, including Henry Clay Elementary.

John M. Gandy Elementary is about 1.2 miles away, making it the nearest public school. There are 5 more public schools inside five miles.

Locale: Suburb: Large. In NCES terms, the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.

Enrollment in 2023-24 stood at 359, compared with 390 in 2017-18. The Hispanic share of enrollment increased from 13% to 20% over the same period. Federal data show the ratio falling from 15.4:1 to 12.8:1.

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