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If you could change one rule at Oak Grove Elementary, what would it be?
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Enrollment
400
Elementary
DISTRICT 373 · STATE 499
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ROANOKE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 510333001467
Oak Grove Elementary
5005 Grandin Rd Extension, Roanoke, VA 24018 · (540) 772-7580 · Roanoke County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY22-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL400 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
12.7:1
32 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.2:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
46%
185 students
DISTRICT 49% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 21 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 60 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 58 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 65 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 66 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 70 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 60 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (60) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (60).
Student demographics
49%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 48% · 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
87.0%
VA avg 74.2% . +2.0pp since 2022
Math
83.0%
VA avg 72.7% . -3.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 87 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 83 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Virginia schools, those numbers are about 74 and 73. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2022, while math scores are down about 3 points.
SOL results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 87.0% | 83.0% |
| 2023-24 | 86.0% | 81.0% |
| 2022-23 | 85.0% | 86.0% |
% Passing, all students and all tested grades.
Source: SOL. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
85.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
75.5%
based on VA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+10.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 86% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 76% typical for Virginia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Virginia's top nor bottom 10%.
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 Oak Grove Elementary
Oak Grove Elementary's state test result (85.9% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oak Grove Elementary this school | 400 | 46.3% | 85.9% |
| West Point Elementary West Point | 409 | 48.9% | 88.5% |
| Christiansburg Elementary Christiansburg | 401 | 42.6% | 75.0% |
| Green Valley Elementary Roanoke | 483 | 44.3% | 81.0% |
| Cold Harbor Elementary Mechanicsville | 495 | 44.2% | 70.9% |
| South Salem Elementary Salem | 371 | 40.2% | 83.1% |
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 Oak Grove Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Virginia | In Roanoke County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 85.9% | #143 of 1,101 | #6 of 16 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 83.0% | #326 of 1,111 ▼ 3 | #12 of 16 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 87.0% | #151 of 1,111 ▲ 3 | #6 of 16 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 400 | #817 of 1,176 | #7 of 16 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.7:1 | #287 of 1,105 | #6 of 16 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 49.4% | #771 of 1,106 | #8 of 16 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 46.3% | #808 of 1,157 | #8 of 16 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -4.5% | #622 of 759 | #9 of 11 |
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
400
+5 (+1%) vs 2020
-21% since 1990-91, when it was 505
Student : Teacher
12.7:1
was 16.5:1
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 | 400 | 31.5 | 12.7:1 | 46% (185) |
| 2023-24 | 395 | 28.5 | 13.9:1 | 44% (172) |
| 2022-23 | 415 | 28.5 | 14.6:1 | 38% (158) |
| 2020-21 | 395 | 24 | 16.5:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 419 | 30.5 | 13.7:1 | 32% (134) |
| 2015-16 | 460 | 28 | 16.4:1 | 34% (156) |
| 2010-11 | 574 | 31 | 18.5:1 | 31% (177) |
| 2000-01 | 509 | 38 | 13.4:1 | 8% (40) |
| 1990-91 | 505 | 26 | 19.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Oak Grove Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 5% (419 to 400); teachers up 3% (30.5 to 31.5).
About Oak Grove Elementary
Oak Grove Elementary is a small elementary school. Its address is in Roanoke, Virginia. There are 400 students enrolled, covering pre-K through 5.
Oak Grove Elementary is one school in a 26-school district, Roanoke County Public Schools, which enrolls 13,735 students.
More than half of the students at Oak Grove Elementary are White (69%). Other reported shares: 11% Black, 9% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, and 5% Asian. That compares with about 83% White among all Roanoke County residents. The diversity index for Oak Grove Elementary is 49%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
On staff are 31.5 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 12.7:1. Elementary schools in Virginia average 13.8:1, 1.1 more students per teacher than here. Oak Grove Elementary has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 46%. The average for public schools in Roanoke County is similar, at 49%.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Oak Grove Elementary is +10.4 points: 85.9% actual, 75.5% predicted.
In Roanoke County, where the school is located, median household income comes to about $83,709, about 37% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 4% of residents are in poverty. There are 26 public schools in the county, enrolling about 13,154, Oak Grove Elementary among them.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Hidden Valley Middle, is about 0.7 miles. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Of the 9 nearby schools with scores, including this one, Oak Grove Elementary is 3rd on average proficiency.
Federal data place Oak Grove Elementary in the Suburb: Mid-size locale, which means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
The school's size has been steady, with 395 students in 2020-21 and 400 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 16.5:1; by 2024-25 it was 12.7:1.
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Roanoke County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
97,023
Census ACS
Median income
$83,709
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
37%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
26
13,154 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Roanoke County Public Schools
- William Byrd HighHigh · 1,134 students
- Cave Spring HighHigh · 1,046 students
- Northside HighHigh · 919 students
- Hidden Valley HighHigh · 832 students
- William Byrd MiddleMiddle · 802 students
- Cave Spring MiddleMiddle · 746 students
Other schools in Roanoke
- Patrick Henry HighHigh · 2,030 students
- William Fleming HighHigh · 1,957 students
- Cave Spring HighHigh · 1,046 students
- Northside HighHigh · 919 students
- Hidden Valley HighHigh · 832 students
- Cave Spring MiddleMiddle · 746 students
Other Oak Grove Elementary schools
33 other US public schools in 20 states are named Oak Grove Elementary. Oak Grove Elementary is the 23rd largest of the 34.
- Oak Grove Elementary SchoolLibertyville, IL · 911 students
- OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLTAMPA, FL · 832 students
- Oak Grove ElementaryHattiesburg, MS · 758 students
- Oak Grove ElementaryVisalia, CA · 756 students
- Oak Grove ElementaryLexington, SC · 691 students
Nearby schools
- Hidden Valley Middle0.7 mi · 581
- Hidden Valley High1.6 mi · 832
- East Salem Elementary2.1 mi · 378
- Cave Spring Middle2.3 mi · 746
- Grandin Court Elementary2.4 mi · 331
- Cave Spring Elementary2.5 mi · 489
Frequently asked questions
About Oak Grove ElementaryHow large is Oak Grove Elementary?
Oak Grove Elementary enrolls approximately 400 students in grades PK-05.
Is Oak Grove Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Oak Grove Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Oak Grove Elementary?
Approximately 12.7:1 students per teacher at Oak Grove Elementary.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Oak Grove Elementary?
At Oak Grove Elementary, the student body is approximately 69% White, 9% Hispanic, 11% Black, 5% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is Oak Grove Elementary public or private?
Oak Grove Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Roanoke County Public Schools.
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