Johnson Elementary

Set in Charlottesville, Virginia, Johnson Elementary is a close-knit elementary campus, overseen by Charlottesville City Public Schools. It works with 327 students across grades pre-K through 4. Compared to the state average of about 499 students per school, that is 34% below typical.

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

On the student-mix side, Johnson Elementary records that the most-represented group is White (32%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 27% Black, 18% multiracial, 14% Hispanic, 9% Asian. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 67%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.7:1. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 79% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Johnson Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 66.6%, the actual is 55.8%, a residual of -10.9 points.

Across the wider county, 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%. In all, Charlottesville city runs 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,150 students), of which Johnson Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Jackson-Via Elementary, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Johnson Elementary comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 67.2%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Looking at the recent track record. Johnson Elementary's enrollment has shrank 11% since 2018, when it stood at 366 (now 327). Over the same period, the Black share fell from 46% to 27%.

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