Narrows Elementary/Middle

Located at 401 Wolf St, in Narrows, Virginia, Narrows Elementary/Middle is a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community that instructs 514 students (grades pre-K through 7), run under Giles County Public Schools.

Narrows Elementary/Middle is one of 6 schools operated by Giles County Public Schools, a district that hosts 3,575 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Narrows Elementary/Middle lists that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest reads as 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.4:1. The state averages about 13.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 64% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Narrows Elementary/Middle sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 70.6%; this one delivers 74.8%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Giles County indicate median household earnings sit near $65,691, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Giles County's 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,575 students), Narrows Elementary/Middle is one campus in the mix.

Narrows High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Narrows Elementary/Middle comes 1st of 5 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 69.7%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Looking at the recent track record. Narrows Elementary/Middle's enrollment has rose 8% since 2018, when it stood at 476 (now 514). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 today.

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