Highland View Elementary

Highland View Elementary, an one-room-style K-5 school in Bristol, Virginia, overseen by Bristol City Public Schools, enrolls 164 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 67% smaller than the state mean of about 499.

Bristol City Public Schools runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 3,238 students. Highland View Elementary is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Highland View Elementary records that 71% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder reads as 13% Black, 13% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. By comparison, Bristol city as a whole is about 85% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Highland View Elementary reports 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. Roughly 100% of students at Highland View Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Highland View Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 60.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 60.5%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Bristol city indicate the typical household earns roughly $50,404 per year, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Highland View Elementary is one of 10 public schools in Bristol city (combined enrollment of about 3,238 students).

Nearest neighbor: Washington-Lee Elementary, around 0.8 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Highland View Elementary at 5th of 5; the average score across the group is 69.3%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Trend over the last 6 years. Over the past 6-year window, the student count contracted 6%: 175 students in 2018 compared to 164 in 2024. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 11.9:1 in 2018 to 10.4:1 today.

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