J.A. Chalkley Elementary

J.A. Chalkley Elementary is one of the big elementary schools in Chesterfield, Virginia, one of the schools within Chesterfield County Public Schools, with 835 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Virginia's public schools average about 499 students each, so J.A. Chalkley Elementary sits 67% larger than that benchmark.

Within Chesterfield County Public Schools, which oversees 65 schools and 64,194 students, J.A. Chalkley Elementary is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, J.A. Chalkley Elementary shows that the most-represented group is Black (46%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest reads as 44% Hispanic, 6% White, 3% multiracial. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 23%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 89 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting J.A. Chalkley Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. About 78% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Chesterfield County's rate of about 54%.

After controlling for student poverty, J.A. Chalkley Elementary falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 66.9%; this one comes in at 45.0%, -21.9 points off the demographic line.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Chesterfield County) logs that median household earnings sit near $101,931, about 44% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Chesterfield County's 76 public schools (combined enrollment of about 64,194 students), J.A. Chalkley Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Manchester Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts J.A. Chalkley Elementary at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 49.5%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Over the past 7-year window. J.A. Chalkley Elementary's enrollment has shrank 4% since 2018, when it stood at 869 (now 835). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 9.4:1 today.

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