Honaker Elementary

Honaker Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus in Honaker, Virginia, operated by Russell County Public Schools. The school hosts 712 students in grades pre-K through 7. That puts it 43% bigger than the typical public school in Virginia, which averages around 499 students.

Russell County Public Schools runs 11 schools in total, collectively educating 3,583 students. Honaker Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Honaker Elementary records that nearly all students (98%) are White. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 91% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Honaker Elementary ranks in the top 10% of Virginia public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 63.3%; Honaker Elementary posts 82.3%, +19.0 points above that line.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Russell County put median household earnings sit near $50,012, roughly 13% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Russell County's 14 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,583 students), Honaker Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Honaker High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.8 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Honaker Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 78.6%.

Honaker Elementary operates from an outlying location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 9%: 652 students in 2018 compared to 712 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, the feed for Honaker Elementary typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.