Jackson-Via Elementary

Jackson-Via Elementary, an intimate K-5 school in Charlottesville, Virginia, one of the schools within Charlottesville City Public Schools, educates 370 students, covering grades pre-K through 4. By comparison, Virginia's public schools average about 499 students each, so Jackson-Via Elementary sits 26% below that benchmark.

Charlottesville City Public Schools runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 4,439 students. Jackson-Via Elementary is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Jackson-Via Elementary logs that 32% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest is composed of 29% Black, 15% Hispanic, 14% multiracial, 10% Asian. By comparison, Charlottesville city as a whole is about 67% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Jackson-Via Elementary logs 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. Roughly 101% of students at Jackson-Via Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Charlottesville city's rate of about 72%.

With demographic context factored in, Jackson-Via Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 60.6%; this one delivers 63.0%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Charlottesville city indicate the typical household earns roughly $74,824 per year, about 63% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Charlottesville city's 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,150 students), Jackson-Via Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Johnson Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Jackson-Via Elementary comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 66.3%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Five-year trend. Jackson-Via Elementary's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 378 (now 370). Black enrollment moved from 51% to 29% across the same window.

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