McGaheysville Elementary

McGaheysville Elementary is an elementary school of compact scale in McGaheysville, Virginia, part of Rockingham County Public Schools, hosting 262 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Virginia's public schools average about 499 students each, so McGaheysville Elementary sits 47% below that benchmark.

Within Rockingham County Public Schools, which oversees 23 schools and 11,679 students, McGaheysville Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, McGaheysville Elementary reports that White students make up the majority at 77%. Other groups include 15% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Rockingham County as a whole is about 86% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting McGaheysville Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Around 41% 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 lower than Rockingham County's rate of about 54%.

With demographic context factored in, McGaheysville Elementary falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 77.0%; this one comes in at 62.0%, -15.0 points off the demographic line.

In the area at large, census data for Rockingham County shows median household income runs about $80,693, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Rockingham County runs 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,397 students), of which McGaheysville Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Spotswood High, around 1.5 miles off. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), McGaheysville Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 64.8%.

McGaheysville Elementary operates from a small-town location.

Five-year trend. McGaheysville Elementary's enrollment has showed little movement since 2018, when it stood at 261 (now 262).

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