Leesville Road Elementary

Leesville Road Elementary is a mid-sized K-5 school in Lynchburg, Virginia, run under Campbell County Public Schools. The school instructs 646 students in grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 499 students per school, that is 29% larger than typical.

Leesville Road Elementary is one of 13 schools operated by Campbell County Public Schools, a district that teaches 7,777 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Leesville Road Elementary shows that White students make up the majority at 56%. The remainder is composed of 17% Black, 15% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Campbell County as a whole is about 77% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. Roughly 79% of students at Leesville Road Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Leesville Road Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 66.7%; this one delivers 78.0%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Campbell County) shows that median household income runs about $66,165, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Leesville Road Elementary is one of 15 public schools in Campbell County (combined enrollment of about 7,777 students).

Tomahawk Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Leesville Road Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 62.4%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Leesville Road Elementary has stayed largely flat, going from 661 students in 2018 to 646 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 69% to 56% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 today.

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