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Kenneth W.Culbert Elementary
Test scores
SOL 2024-25 . % PassingWhat this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 84 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 86 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Virginia schools, those numbers are about 74 and 73. Reading and writing scores are up about 9 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 11 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 85% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 85% typical for Virginia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Virginia's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Kenneth W.Culbert Elementary
Located at 38180 West Colonial Highway, in Hamilton, Virginia, Kenneth W.Culbert Elementary is a compact K-5 school that hosts 417 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under Loudoun County Public Schools.
Kenneth W.Culbert Elementary is one of 98 schools operated by Loudoun County Public Schools, a district that serves 81,486 students overall.
Demographically, Kenneth W.Culbert Elementary records that the largest single group is White, at 76% of enrollment. Other groups include 8% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 4% Asian, 3% Black. By comparison, Loudoun County as a whole is about 53% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.
On the resource side, The school lists 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.4:1. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 10% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Loudoun County's rate of about 28%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Kenneth W.Culbert Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 85.4%; this one delivers 84.8%.
In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Loudoun County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $181,765 per year, roughly 65% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Kenneth W.Culbert Elementary is one of 103 public schools in Loudoun County (combined enrollment of about 81,486 students).
Nearest neighbor: Harmony Middle, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Kenneth W.Culbert Elementary comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 84.6%.
Kenneth W.Culbert Elementary operates from an outlying location.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 19%: 516 students in 2018 compared to 417 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 83% to 76% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 in 2025.
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