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Kenneth W.Culbert Elementary
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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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