North Elementary

North Elementary is an average-sized elementary school in Prince George, Virginia, run under Prince George County Public Schools. The school hosts 720 students in grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 499 students per school, that is 44% bigger than typical.

Prince George County Public Schools comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 6,220 students; North Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, North Elementary reports that the most-represented group is White (47%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 28% Black, 15% Hispanic, 9% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, North Elementary has 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. An estimated 63% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Prince George County's rate of about 49%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, North Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 71.0%, the actual is 69.9%, a residual of -1.2 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Prince George County indicate the typical household earns roughly $84,897 per year, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Prince George County's 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,220 students), North Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Prince George High, around 3.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around North Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts North Elementary at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 62.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Looking at the recent track record. North Elementary's enrollment has edged down 4% since 2018, when it stood at 753 (now 720). White enrollment moved from 57% to 47% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 19.3:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 today.

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