Parkside Elementary

Parkside Elementary operates as a sizable K-5 school in Fredericksburg, Virginia, one of the schools within Spotsylvania County Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 946 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 90% above the state mean of about 499.

Parkside Elementary is one of 29 schools operated by Spotsylvania County Public Schools, a district that serves 24,036 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Parkside Elementary logs that the most-represented group is White (29%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest breaks down as 29% Black, 23% Hispanic, 10% Asian, 9% multiracial. By comparison, Spotsylvania County as a whole is about 63% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Parkside Elementary has 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. Roughly 65% of students at Parkside Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Parkside Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 70.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 61.5%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Spotsylvania County indicate the typical household earns roughly $112,738 per year, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Spotsylvania County runs 34 public schools (combined enrollment of about 24,036 students), of which Parkside Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Massaponax High, roughly 1.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Parkside Elementary comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 66.6%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Parkside Elementary's enrollment has grew 10% since 2018, when it stood at 860 (now 946). Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 45% to 29%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 19.4:1 in 2018 to 17.5:1 today.

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