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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the Henry Marsh III Elementary administration to hear?
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Enrollment
512
Elementary
DISTRICT 377 · STATE 499
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·RICHMOND CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 510324001370
Henry Marsh III Elementary
813 N 28th St, Richmond, VA 23223 · (804) 780-4401 · Richmond city
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL512 STUDENTS
F
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 0% of Virginia public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats 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
14.6:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.5:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
98%
500 students
DISTRICT 99% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 85 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 105 | 21% |
| Grade 2 | 105 | 21% |
| Grade 3 | 66 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 77 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 74 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (85) is 15% larger than its 5th grade class (74).
Student demographics
21%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 59% · 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
38.0%
VA avg 74.2% . +4.0pp since 2022
Math
44.0%
VA avg 72.7% . +9.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 38 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 44 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 4 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 9 points.
SOL results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 38.0% | 44.0% |
| 2023-24 | 39.0% | 40.0% |
| 2022-23 | 34.0% | 35.0% |
% Passing, all students and all tested grades.
Source: SOL. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of VA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
34.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
61.5%
based on VA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-27.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 35% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 62% typical for Virginia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Henry Marsh III Elementary
Henry Marsh III Elementary's state test result (34.5% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Henry Marsh III Elementary this school | 512 | 97.7% | 34.5% |
| Richard Bowling Elementary Norfolk | 492 | 99.8% | 45.3% |
| Brighton Elementary Portsmouth | 483 | 99.4% | 41.3% |
| Cool Spring Elementary Petersburg | 540 | 94.3% | 29.9% |
| Jacox Elementary Norfolk | 596 | 99.3% | 32.5% |
| Discovery STEM Academy Newport News | 561 | 98.9% | 47.3% |
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 Henry Marsh III Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Virginia | In Richmond city |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 34.5% | #1,093 of 1,101 | #24 of 26 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 44.0% | #1,069 of 1,111 ▲ 4 | #20 of 26 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 38.0% | #1,094 of 1,111 ▼ 6 | #23 of 26 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 512 | #549 of 1,176 | #6 of 26 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.6:1 | #685 of 1,105 | #10 of 24 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 21.2% | #1,037 of 1,106 | #23 of 25 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 97.7% | #221 of 1,157 | #25 of 26 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -44.5% | #6 of 759 | #3 of 24 |
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
512
-3,025 (-86%) vs 2020
-11% since 1990-91, when it was 577
Student : Teacher
14.6:1
was 126.3:1
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 | 512 | 35.2 | 14.6:1 | 98% (500) |
| 2023-24 | 523 | 25 | 20.9:1 | 100% (523) |
| 2022-23 | 493 | 34 | 14.5:1 | 99% (488) |
| 2020-21 | 3,537 | 28 | 126.3:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 923 | 30 | 30.8:1 | 45% (417) |
| 2015-16 | 452 | 29 | 15.6:1 | 95% (431) |
| 2010-11 | 531 | 26 | 20.4:1 | 81% (430) |
| 2000-01 | 405 | 33 | 12.3:1 | 86% (347) |
| 1990-91 | 577 | 29 | 19.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Henry Marsh III Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 45% (923 to 512); teachers up 17% (30 to 35.2).
About Henry Marsh III Elementary
Henry Marsh III Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school in Richmond, Virginia, (ZIP code 23223). Students in pre-K through 5 make up the school's enrollment of 512 students.
The 47 schools in Richmond City Public Schools enroll 20,962 students altogether, Henry Marsh III Elementary among them.
Roughly 88% of students at Henry Marsh III Elementary are Black. Smaller groups are 5% Hispanic and 4% multiracial. County-wide, 41% of Richmond city residents are Black. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 21%.
Staffing at Henry Marsh III Elementary comes to 35.2 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 14.6:1. The school's 14.6:1 compares with an average of 13.8:1 for elementary schools in Virginia. On the income side, 98% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That is in line with the 99% average for public schools in Richmond city.
Henry Marsh III Elementary earns an F on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 0% of Virginia public elementary schools.
The BeatsExpectations model predicts 61.5% for Henry Marsh III Elementary, given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The actual figure is 34.5%. The 27.0-point gap ranks in the bottom 10% of Virginia schools.
Richmond city is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $64,587 a year, roughly 46% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 12%. Henry Marsh III Elementary shares Richmond city with 60 other public schools.
Measured in a straight line, Chimborazo Elementary is about 0.3 miles from Henry Marsh III Elementary. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. Its average proficiency rate of 34.5% is below the 50.6% average for nearby schools.
By NCES locale, the school is City: Mid-size, or inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
The 2020-21 count was 3,537 students and the 2024-25 count was 512. A difference that large may reflect a change in which grades the school serves. The student-to-teacher ratio dropped from 126.3:1 in 2020-21 to 14.6:1 in 2024-25.
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Richmond city at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
229,359
Census ACS
Median income
$64,587
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
46%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
61
20,253 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Richmond City Public Schools
- Huguenot HighHigh · 1,469 students
- River City MiddleMiddle · 1,150 students
- Richmond High School for the ArtsHigh · 1,116 students
- Cardinal ElementaryElementary · 821 students
- Thomas Jefferson HighHigh · 749 students
- Armstrong HighHigh · 709 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
- Chimborazo Elementary0.3 mi · 403
- Bellevue Elementary0.5 mi · 206
- Franklin Military Academy0.6 mi · 335
- Martin Luther King Jr. Middle0.7 mi · 500
- Martin Luther King Jr. Preschool0.7 mi · 185
- Woodville Elementary1.0 mi · 217
Frequently asked questions
About Henry Marsh III ElementaryHow large is Henry Marsh III Elementary?
Henry Marsh III Elementary enrolls approximately 512 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Henry Marsh III Elementary serve?
Henry Marsh III Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Henry Marsh III Elementary?
Approximately 14.6:1 students per teacher at Henry Marsh III Elementary.
How diverse is Henry Marsh III Elementary?
Henry Marsh III Elementary reports a student body of 2% White, 5% Hispanic, 88% Black, 0% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees Henry Marsh III Elementary?
Henry Marsh III Elementary is overseen by Richmond City Public Schools in Richmond city.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.