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What's the biggest difference between Oak Grove/Bellemeade Elementary and what you expected?
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Enrollment
551
Elementary
DISTRICT 377 · STATE 499
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·RICHMOND CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 510324001387
Oak Grove/Bellemeade Elementary
2409 Webber Avenue, Richmond, VA 23224 · (804) 780-5008 · Richmond city
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL551 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 1% 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
15.5:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.5:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
98%
540 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 42 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 95 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 81 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 85 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 89 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 83 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 76 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (95) is 25% larger than its 5th grade class (76).
Student demographics
52%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
44.0%
VA avg 74.2% . +13.0pp since 2022
Math
33.0%
VA avg 72.7% . +4.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 44 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 33 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 13 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 4 points.
SOL results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 44.0% | 33.0% |
| 2023-24 | 41.0% | 34.0% |
| 2022-23 | 31.0% | 29.0% |
% 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
36.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
61.4%
based on VA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-25.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 36% 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 Oak Grove/Bellemeade Elementary
Oak Grove/Bellemeade Elementary's state test result (36.3% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oak Grove/Bellemeade Elementary this school | 551 | 98.0% | 36.3% |
| Miles Jones Elementary Richmond | 505 | 99.0% | 37.3% |
| L.F. Palmer Elementary Newport News | 465 | 98.3% | 55.4% |
| Westside Elementary Roanoke | 624 | 98.9% | 42.0% |
| Elizabeth D. Redd Elementary Richmond | 355 | 99.7% | 45.3% |
| Cashell Donahoe Elementary Sandston | 526 | 89.2% | 49.5% |
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/Bellemeade Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Virginia | In Richmond city |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 36.3% | #1,087 of 1,101 | #22 of 26 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 33.0% | #1,104 of 1,111 ▼ 8 | #22 of 26 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 44.0% | #1,062 of 1,111 ▲ 14 | #17 of 26 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 551 | #463 of 1,176 | #4 of 26 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.5:1 | #852 of 1,105 | #16 of 24 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 52.3% | #722 of 1,106 | #10 of 25 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 98.0% | #218 of 1,157 | #24 of 26 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -23.4% | #116 of 759 | #10 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
551
-58 (-10%) vs 2020
+1% since 1990-91, when it was 545
Student : Teacher
15.5:1
was 13.8:1
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 | 551 | 35.6 | 15.5:1 | 98% (540) |
| 2023-24 | 523 | 30 | 17.4:1 | 100% (521) |
| 2022-23 | 594 | 49 | 12.1:1 | 99% (587) |
| 2020-21 | 609 | 44 | 13.8:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 719 | 42 | 17.1:1 | 97% (700) |
| 2015-16 | 672 | 36 | 18.7:1 | 99% (665) |
| 2010-11 | 409 | 19 | 21.5:1 | 54% (219) |
| 2000-01 | 471 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 545 | 30 | 18.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Oak Grove/Bellemeade Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 23% (719 to 551); teachers down 15% (42 to 35.6).
About Oak Grove/Bellemeade Elementary
Oak Grove/Bellemeade Elementary is an elementary school with a street address in Richmond, Virginia. The grade span is pre-K through 5, and enrollment is 551 students.
The 47 schools in Richmond City Public Schools enroll 20,962 students altogether, Oak Grove/Bellemeade Elementary among them.
Oak Grove/Bellemeade Elementary's enrollment is 56% Black. Other groups include 40% Hispanic. By comparison, Richmond city residents are about 41% Black. The chance that two students picked at random at Oak Grove/Bellemeade Elementary belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 52%.
Its teaching staff equals 35.6 full-time positions, a ratio of 15.5:1. That ratio is over the 13.8:1 average for elementary schools in Virginia. Around 98% of the school's students qualify for free or reduced-price meals. That is close to the 99% average for public schools in Richmond city.
allk12 grades Oak Grove/Bellemeade Elementary an F. The grade compares the school only with Virginia public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Oak Grove/Bellemeade Elementary posts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 36.3%. Schools with its free or reduced-price lunch share in Virginia are predicted to post 61.4%, so the school is 25.2 points behind and in the state's bottom 10%.
Oak Grove/Bellemeade Elementary is located in Richmond city, where median household income is about $64,587, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 46%, and about 12% of people live in poverty. Oak Grove/Bellemeade Elementary is one of 61 public schools in Richmond city, which together enroll about 20,253 students.
Blackwell Elementary is located about 1.4 miles from Oak Grove/Bellemeade Elementary. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. Among its closest neighbors with test data, Oak Grove/Bellemeade Elementary is 6th of 8 on proficiency.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is City: Mid-size: inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, the student count dropped from 609 to 551. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio rose to 15.5:1, from 13.8:1.
Topics for discussion here include school safety, transportation, and start times. 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
- Blackwell Elementary1.4 mi · 420
- Summer Hill Preschool Center1.5 mi · 192
- Swansboro Elementary1.7 mi · 172
- Cardinal Elementary1.9 mi · 821
- Patrick Henry School Of Science And Arts2.0 mi · 310
- Thomas C. Boushall Middle2.2 mi · 621
Frequently asked questions
About Oak Grove/Bellemeade ElementaryHow many students attend Oak Grove/Bellemeade Elementary?
Oak Grove/Bellemeade Elementary enrolls approximately 551 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Oak Grove/Bellemeade Elementary serve?
Oak Grove/Bellemeade Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does Oak Grove/Bellemeade Elementary have?
Oak Grove/Bellemeade Elementary employs 36 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.5:1.
What is the student diversity at Oak Grove/Bellemeade Elementary?
Student demographics at Oak Grove/Bellemeade Elementary are roughly 2% White, 40% Hispanic, 56% Black, 0% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees Oak Grove/Bellemeade Elementary?
Oak Grove/Bellemeade Elementary is overseen by Richmond City Public Schools in Richmond city.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.