Madison Heights Elementary

Madison Heights Elementary operates as a reasonably sized elementary school in Madison Heights, Virginia, one of the schools within Amherst County Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 449 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

Amherst County Public Schools comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 3,900 students; Madison Heights Elementary is among them.

Looking at the student body, Madison Heights Elementary lists that the most-represented group is White (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 28% Black, 12% multiracial, 10% Hispanic. By comparison, Amherst County as a whole is about 74% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.0:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 84% of students at Madison Heights Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Madison Heights Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 65.2%, the actual is 54.8%, a residual of -10.5 points.

In the broader community, Amherst County reports that the typical household earns roughly $68,724 per year, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Amherst County's 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,900 students), Madison Heights Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Paul Laurence Dunbar Middle for Innovation is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Madison Heights Elementary comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 58.0%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Madison Heights Elementary's enrollment has grew 3% since 2018, when it stood at 435 (now 449). White enrollment moved from 59% to 49% across the same window.

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