Enrollment
356
Elementary
DISTRICT 336 · STATE 499
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LYNCHBURG CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 510234000963
Paul Munro Elementary
4641 Locksview Rd, Lynchburg, VA 24503 · (434) 515-5260 · Lynchburg city
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL356 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 90% of Virginia public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats 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
13.7:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.0:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
97%
346 students
DISTRICT 95% · STATE 66%
Community
0
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 | 67 | 19% |
| Kindergarten | 51 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 47 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 50 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 51 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 43 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 47 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (51) is 9% larger than its 5th grade class (47).
Student demographics
65%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 65% · 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
82.0%
VA avg 74.2% . -2.0pp since 2022
Math
81.0%
VA avg 72.7% . -1.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 82 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 81 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Virginia schools, those numbers are about 74 and 73. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2022, while math scores are down about 1 points.
SOL results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 82.0% | 81.0% |
| 2023-24 | 85.0% | 84.0% |
| 2022-23 | 84.0% | 82.0% |
% Passing, all students and all tested grades.
Source: SOL. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of VA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
82.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
61.6%
based on VA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+20.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 82% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 62% typical for Virginia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 21 points, placing it in Virginia's top 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 Paul Munro Elementary
Paul Munro Elementary's state test result (82.4% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paul Munro Elementary this school | 356 | 97.2% | 82.4% |
| Bedford Hills Elementary Lynchburg | 402 | 98.0% | 59.9% |
| Buckingham Co Elementary Dillwyn | 351 | 99.4% | 59.8% |
| Hilton Elementary Newport News | 368 | 99.2% | 78.8% |
| Buckingham Co Primary Dillwyn | 361 | 98.9% | N/A |
| Victoria Elementary Victoria | 400 | 93.3% | 63.6% |
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 Paul Munro Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Virginia | In Lynchburg city |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 82.4% | #244 of 1,101 | #1 of 11 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 81.0% | #373 of 1,111 ▼ 134 | #1 of 11 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 82.0% | #283 of 1,111 ▼ 111 | #1 of 11 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 356 | #903 of 1,176 | #7 of 11 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.7:1 | #482 of 1,105 | #8 of 8 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.7% | #413 of 1,106 | #5 of 8 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 97.2% | #227 of 1,157 | #5 of 11 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +6.9% | #170 of 324 | N/A |
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
356
+22 (+7%) vs 2020
-20% since 1990-91, when it was 447
Student : Teacher
13.7:1
was 15.9:1
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 | 356 | 26 | 13.7:1 | 97% (346) |
| 2023-24 | 344 | 26.7 | 12.9:1 | 97% (334) |
| 2022-23 | 369 | 24.8 | 14.9:1 | 98% (362) |
| 2020-21 | 334 | 21 | 15.9:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 333 | 23.6 | 14.1:1 | 92% (306) |
| 2015-16 | 342 | 18 | 19.0:1 | 43% (147) |
| 2010-11 | 361 | 21 | 17.2:1 | 50% (179) |
| 2000-01 | 344 | 24 | 14.3:1 | 33% (113) |
| 1990-91 | 447 | 25 | 17.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Paul Munro Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 7% (333 to 356); teachers up 10% (23.6 to 26).
About Paul Munro Elementary
Paul Munro Elementary is a small elementary school in Lynchburg City Public Schools, located in Lynchburg, Virginia. A federal count lists 356 students at the school, in pre-K through 5. An average school in this group (elementary schools in Virginia) has about 499 students.
Paul Munro Elementary is one of 16 schools in Lynchburg City Public Schools, which enrolls 7,657 students in total.
Paul Munro Elementary has no majority group; White students are the largest, at 49%. The remaining students are 32% Black, 10% Hispanic, and 8% multiracial. Among people living in Lynchburg city, the White share is about 61%. Paul Munro Elementary's diversity index is 65%, against a US figure of 70%.
Teacher staffing is 26 full-time equivalents, or about 13.7 students per teacher. That matches the 13.8:1 average for elementary schools in Virginia fairly closely. Eligibility for subsidized school meals is 97%. For comparison, public schools in Lynchburg city average 95%.
The allk12 Grade for Paul Munro Elementary is A. Compared with Virginia public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 90% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
BeatsExpectations places Paul Munro Elementary in the top 10% of Virginia schools. The measure fits a line through proficiency and free or reduced-price lunch share for each state, and this school sits 20.7 points above it (82.4% actual, 61.6% predicted).
According to the American Community Survey, in Lynchburg city, the median household income is $57,947, about 39% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 12% of residents are in poverty. Paul Munro Elementary is one of 24 public schools in the county.
Nearest public school: Bedford Hills Elementary, about 0.9 miles away. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Paul Munro Elementary at 1st of 9.
Locale data from NCES put Paul Munro Elementary inside a principal city with a population under 100,000 (City: Small).
Federal data show a 7% enrollment gain, from 334 in 2020-21 to 356 in 2024-25. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 15.9:1 to 13.7:1.
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Lynchburg city at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
79,497
Census ACS
Median income
$57,947
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
24
7,657 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Lynchburg City Public Schools
- E.C. Glass HighHigh · 1,220 students
- Heritage HighHigh · 1,113 students
- Sandusky MiddleMiddle · 583 students
- Paul Laurence Dunbar Middle for InnovationMiddle · 531 students
- Linkhorne MiddleMiddle · 519 students
- Heritage ElementaryElementary · 448 students
Other schools in Lynchburg
- E.C. Glass HighHigh · 1,220 students
- Heritage HighHigh · 1,113 students
- Brookville HighHigh · 1,017 students
- Tomahawk ElementaryElementary · 667 students
- Brookville MiddleMiddle · 648 students
- Leesville Road ElementaryElementary · 646 students
Nearby schools
- Bedford Hills Elementary0.9 mi · 402
- Linkhorne Elementary2.4 mi · 378
- Linkhorne Middle2.5 mi · 519
- Boonsboro Elementary3.0 mi · 309
- Dearington Elementary/Innovation3.6 mi · 180
- E.C. Glass High3.8 mi · 1,220
Frequently asked questions
About Paul Munro ElementaryHow large is Paul Munro Elementary?
Paul Munro Elementary enrolls approximately 356 students in grades PK-05.
Is Paul Munro Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Paul Munro Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Paul Munro Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Paul Munro Elementary is approximately 13.7:1 (26 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Paul Munro Elementary?
Paul Munro Elementary reports a student body of 49% White, 10% Hispanic, 32% Black, 2% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Who oversees Paul Munro Elementary?
Paul Munro Elementary is overseen by Lynchburg City Public Schools in Lynchburg city.
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