Jacob L. Adams Elementary

Jacob L. Adams Elementary, a mid-sized K-5 school in Richmond, Virginia, one of the schools within Henrico County Public Schools, enrolls 453 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Jacob L. Adams Elementary is one of 69 schools operated by Henrico County Public Schools, a district that serves 51,044 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Jacob L. Adams Elementary shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (82%). The remainder reads as 10% Hispanic, 4% White, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Henrico County as a whole is about 29% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Jacob L. Adams Elementary shows 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.2:1. The state averages about 13.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 89% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Henrico County runs at roughly 67%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Jacob L. Adams Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 63.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 53.2%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Henrico County) shows that median household income runs about $88,783, about 47% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Jacob L. Adams Elementary is one of 84 public schools in Henrico County (combined enrollment of about 51,753 students).

The closest other public school is Fairfield Middle, roughly 0.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Jacob L. Adams Elementary comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 48.2%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Five-year trend. Jacob L. Adams Elementary's enrollment has increased 5% since 2018, when it stood at 433 (now 453). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.7:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 today.

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