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If you could change one rule at Miles Jones Elementary, what would it be?
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Enrollment
505
Elementary
DISTRICT 377 · STATE 499
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·RICHMOND CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 510324001928
Miles Jones Elementary
200 Beaufont Hill Drive, Richmond, VA 23225 · (804) 319-3185 · Richmond city
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL505 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 2% of Virginia public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Virginia public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.8:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.5:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
99%
500 students
DISTRICT 99% · STATE 66%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 76 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 101 | 20% |
| Grade 2 | 81 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 82 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 85 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 80 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (76) is 5% smaller than its 5th grade class (80).
Student demographics
55%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 59% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
SOL 2024-25 . % PassingEnglish Language Arts
40.0%
VA avg 74.2% . -3.0pp since 2022
Math
45.0%
VA avg 72.7% . +10.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 45 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Virginia schools, those numbers are about 74 and 73. Reading and writing scores are down about 3 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 10 points.
SOL results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 40.0% | 45.0% |
| 2023-24 | 46.0% | 34.0% |
| 2022-23 | 43.0% | 35.0% |
% Passing, all students and all tested grades.
Source: SOL. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of VA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
37.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
61.1%
based on VA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-23.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 37% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 61% typical for Virginia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Miles Jones Elementary
Miles Jones Elementary's state test result (37.3% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles Jones Elementary this school | 505 | 99.0% | 37.3% |
| Oak Grove/Bellemeade Elementary Richmond | 551 | 98.0% | 36.3% |
| L.F. Palmer Elementary Newport News | 465 | 98.3% | 55.4% |
| Elizabeth D. Redd Elementary Richmond | 355 | 99.7% | 45.3% |
| Stoney Run Elementary Newport News | 453 | 99.6% | 44.5% |
| Westside Elementary Roanoke | 624 | 98.9% | 42.0% |
Matched among Virginia elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Miles Jones Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Virginia | In Richmond city |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 37.3% | #1,079 of 1,101 | #21 of 26 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 45.0% | #1,062 of 1,111 ▲ 35 | #19 of 26 ▲ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 40.0% | #1,081 of 1,111 ▼ 31 | #20 of 26 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 505 | #568 of 1,176 | #7 of 26 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.8:1 | #511 of 1,105 | #6 of 24 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.3% | #676 of 1,106 | #9 of 25 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.0% | #187 of 1,157 | #19 of 26 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -20.3% | #175 of 759 | #11 of 24 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
505
-61 (-11%) vs 2020
-1% since 2000-01, when it was 508
Student : Teacher
13.8:1
was 14.9:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 505 | 36.6 | 13.8:1 | 99% (500) |
| 2023-24 | 506 | 21 | 24.1:1 | 100% (505) |
| 2022-23 | 559 | 40 | 14.0:1 | 99% (554) |
| 2020-21 | 566 | 38 | 14.9:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 634 | 34 | 18.6:1 | 98% (623) |
| 2015-16 | 663 | 21 | 31.6:1 | 98% (651) |
| 2010-11 | 546 | 28 | 19.5:1 | 84% (460) |
| 2000-01 | 508 | 34 | 14.9:1 | 84% (428) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Miles Jones Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 20% (634 to 505); teachers up 8% (34 to 36.6).
About Miles Jones Elementary
Richmond, Virginia, is home to Miles Jones Elementary, a medium-sized elementary school. The school's 505 students are in pre-K through 5.
Richmond City Public Schools counts 47 schools and 20,962 students, including Miles Jones Elementary.
Miles Jones Elementary is 54% Black by enrollment. Next come 40% Hispanic and 4% White. By comparison, Richmond city residents are about 41% Black. The school's diversity index is 55%, meaning two students picked at random have a 55% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Federal staffing data show 36.6 full-time-equivalent teachers at Miles Jones Elementary and a ratio of 13.8:1. That is close to the 13.8:1 average for elementary schools in Virginia. The count of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch equals 99% of enrollment. That tracks the 99% average for public schools in Richmond city.
Miles Jones Elementary is graded F by allk12, scoring above 2% of Virginia public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
After accounting for student poverty, Miles Jones Elementary is in the bottom 10% of Virginia schools. Its average proficiency rate on state tests of 37.3% is 23.9 points below the 61.1% predicted for its lunch-eligibility share.
Miles Jones Elementary is located in Richmond city, where the median household income is $64,587, about 46% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 12%. Besides Miles Jones Elementary, Richmond city has 60 other public schools.
The shortest distance from Miles Jones Elementary to another public school is about 0.9 miles, to Elizabeth D. Redd Elementary. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. By average proficiency, Miles Jones Elementary is 7th among 9 schools close by.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is City: Mid-size: inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Enrollment has fallen by 61 students since 2020-21, to 505. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio fell to 13.8:1, from 14.9:1.
Families, students, and staff can use this page to discuss enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news at Miles Jones Elementary. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Richmond city at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
229,359
Census ACS
Median income
$64,587
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
46%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
61
20,253 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Richmond City Public Schools
- Huguenot HighHigh · 1,469 students
- River City MiddleMiddle · 1,150 students
- Richmond High School for the ArtsHigh · 1,116 students
- Cardinal ElementaryElementary · 821 students
- Thomas Jefferson HighHigh · 749 students
- Armstrong HighHigh · 709 students
Other schools in Richmond
- John Randolph Tucker HighHigh · 2,132 students
- Douglas S. Freeman HighHigh · 1,881 students
- Hermitage HighHigh · 1,719 students
- Mills E. Godwin HighHigh · 1,702 students
- Monacan HighHigh · 1,644 students
- Huguenot HighHigh · 1,469 students
Nearby schools
- Elizabeth D. Redd Elementary0.9 mi · 355
- Lucille M. Brown Middle1.1 mi · 605
- G.H. Reid Elementary1.2 mi · 671
- Westover Hills Elementary1.6 mi · 375
- Richmond High School for the Arts1.7 mi · 1,116
- River City Middle1.7 mi · 1,150
Frequently asked questions
About Miles Jones ElementaryHow large is Miles Jones Elementary?
Miles Jones Elementary enrolls approximately 505 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Miles Jones Elementary serve?
Miles Jones Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Miles Jones Elementary?
Approximately 13.8:1 students per teacher at Miles Jones Elementary.
What is the student diversity at Miles Jones Elementary?
Student demographics at Miles Jones Elementary are roughly 4% White, 40% Hispanic, 54% Black, 0% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is Miles Jones Elementary public or private?
Miles Jones Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Richmond City Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.