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Alumni: what's one memory from Highland Springs Elementary that still sticks with you?
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Enrollment
469
Elementary
DISTRICT 503 · STATE 499
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HENRICO COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 510189000808
Highland Springs Elementary
600 Pleasant St, Highland Springs, VA 23075 · (804) 328-4045 · Henrico County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL469 STUDENTS
F
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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
13.4:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.0:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
89%
419 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 | 42 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 76 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 64 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 67 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 90 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 74 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 56 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (76) is 36% larger than its 5th grade class (56).
Student demographics
27%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
33.0%
VA avg 74.2% . -2.0pp since 2022
Math
35.0%
VA avg 72.7% . +8.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 33 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 35 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Virginia schools, those numbers are about 74 and 73. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 8 points.
SOL results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 33.0% | 35.0% |
| 2023-24 | 32.0% | 26.0% |
| 2022-23 | 35.0% | 27.0% |
% 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
34.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
63.8%
based on VA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-29.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 35% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 64% 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 Highland Springs Elementary
Highland Springs Elementary's state test result (34.7% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Highland Springs Elementary this school | 469 | 89.3% | 34.7% |
| Jacob L. Adams Elementary Richmond | 453 | 89.0% | 53.2% |
| Arthur Ashe Jr. Elementary Richmond | 425 | 89.2% | 63.0% |
| Laburnum Elementary Richmond | 466 | 89.3% | 35.5% |
| Glen Lea Elementary Richmond | 461 | 88.7% | 37.0% |
| Westview Early Childhood Education Center Petersburg | 418 | 94.0% | N/A |
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 Highland Springs Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Virginia | In Henrico County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 34.7% | #1,091 of 1,101 | #45 of 45 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 35.0% | #1,097 of 1,111 ▲ 9 | #41 of 45 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 33.0% | #1,109 of 1,111 ▼ 3 | #45 of 45 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 469 | #657 of 1,176 | #27 of 46 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.4:1 | #423 of 1,105 | #10 of 46 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 26.6% | #1,006 of 1,106 | #41 of 46 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 89.3% | #346 of 1,157 | #15 of 46 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -20.2% | #176 of 759 | #3 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
469
-96 (-17%) vs 2020
-31% since 1990-91, when it was 682
Student : Teacher
13.4:1
was 16.1:1
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 | 469 | 35 | 13.4:1 | 89% (419) |
| 2023-24 | 483 | 35 | 13.8:1 | 93% (447) |
| 2022-23 | 532 | 48 | 11.1:1 | 88% (470) |
| 2020-21 | 565 | 35 | 16.1:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 588 | 36 | 16.3:1 | 95% (561) |
| 2015-16 | 557 | 29 | 19.2:1 | 86% (479) |
| 2010-11 | 510 | 31 | 16.4:1 | 83% (424) |
| 2000-01 | 676 | 42 | 16.1:1 | 43% (290) |
| 1990-91 | 682 | 35 | 19.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Highland Springs Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 20% (588 to 469); teachers down 3% (36 to 35).
About Highland Springs Elementary
Highland Springs Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school with an address in Highland Springs, Virginia. The school runs pre-K through 5 and enrolls 469 students.
The 69 schools in Henrico County Public Schools enroll 51,044 students altogether, Highland Springs Elementary among them.
Black students are 85% of those enrolled at Highland Springs Elementary. The rest of enrollment is 10% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, and 2% White. Census estimates put the Black share of Henrico County's population at about 29%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 27, compared with 70 nationally.
Highland Springs Elementary has 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 13.4:1. That is in line with the 13.8:1 average for elementary schools in Virginia. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 89% at Highland Springs Elementary. On average, public schools in Henrico County report 67%.
Highland Springs 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.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Highland Springs Elementary is in the bottom 10% of Virginia schools: 34.7% actual against 63.8% predicted.
In Henrico County, median household income comes to about $88,783, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 47% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 6%. Henrico County counts 84 public schools with about 51,753 students.
An Achievable Dream Middle and High School Oak Avenue Comple is the nearest public school to Highland Springs Elementary, about 0.9 miles away. Within five miles of Highland Springs Elementary, there are at least 8 other public schools. Its average proficiency rate of 34.7% is below the 53.0% average for nearby schools.
The school's federal locale classification is Suburb: Large.
Enrollment fell 17% over 4 years, reaching 469 in 2024-25. The ratio was 16.1:1 in 2020-21 and 13.4:1 in 2024-25.
On allk12, people connected to Highland Springs Elementary can post about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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 Highland Springs
- Highland Springs HighHigh · 1,928 students
- Fair Oaks ElementaryElementary · 330 students
- An Achievable Dream Middle and High School Oak Avenue CompleHigh · 129 students
- Adult Education CenterElementary
- Advanced Career Education Center at Highland SpringsElementary
- General Academic DevelopmentElementary
Nearby schools
- An Achievable Dream Middle and High School Oak Avenue Comple0.9 mi · 129
- Highland Springs High1.0 mi · 1,928
- Fairfield Middle1.1 mi · 936
- Fair Oaks Elementary1.3 mi · 330
- Jacob L. Adams Elementary1.5 mi · 453
- Sandston Elementary2.0 mi · 201
Frequently asked questions
About Highland Springs ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Highland Springs Elementary?
Highland Springs Elementary enrolls approximately 469 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Highland Springs Elementary serve?
Highland Springs Elementary serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Highland Springs Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Highland Springs Elementary is approximately 13.4:1 (35 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Highland Springs Elementary?
Student demographics at Highland Springs Elementary are roughly 2% White, 10% Hispanic, 85% Black, 0% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees Highland Springs Elementary?
Highland Springs Elementary is overseen by Henrico County Public Schools in Henrico County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.