Jacobs Road Elementary

Jacobs Road Elementary is a medium-sized elementary-level community in Chesterfield, Virginia, part of Chesterfield County Public Schools. The school hosts 716 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 43% above the state mean of about 499.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, Jacobs Road Elementary logs that 34% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 30% Hispanic, 27% Black, 7% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 58% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Jacobs Road Elementary reports 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 77% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Chesterfield County (around 54%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Jacobs Road Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 67.1%, the actual is 67.0%, a residual of -0.1 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Chesterfield County shows median household earnings sit near $101,931, 44% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Chesterfield County runs 76 public schools (combined enrollment of about 64,194 students), of which Jacobs Road Elementary is one.

Manchester Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Jacobs Road Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Jacobs Road Elementary at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 54.6%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Jacobs Road Elementary has contracted 6%, going from 761 students in 2018 to 716 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 16% to 30%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 today.

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