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Enrollment
571
Elementary
DISTRICT 513 · STATE 499
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HANOVER COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 510183000777
Pearson's Corner Elementary
8290 New Ashcake Road, Mechanicsville, VA 23116 · (804) 723-3660 · Hanover County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL571 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 96% 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
14.3:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.3:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
15%
86 students
DISTRICT 40% · 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 | 30 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 82 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 72 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 87 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 90 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 101 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 109 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (82) is 25% smaller than its 5th grade class (109).
Student demographics
41%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
93.0%
VA avg 74.2% . +5.0pp since 2022
Math
95.0%
VA avg 72.7% . +3.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 93 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 95 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 5 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 3 points.
SOL results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 93.0% | 95.0% |
| 2023-24 | 91.0% | 91.0% |
| 2022-23 | 88.0% | 92.0% |
% 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
92.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
84.0%
based on VA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+8.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 92% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 84% 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 Pearson's Corner Elementary
Pearson's Corner Elementary's state test result (92.4% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pearson's Corner Elementary this school | 571 | 15.1% | 92.4% |
| Gayton Elementary Richmond | 605 | 15.5% | 88.8% |
| Rural Point Elementary Mechanicsville | 627 | 14.5% | 87.1% |
| Brownsville Elementary Crozet | 530 | 13.8% | 86.3% |
| Red Mill Elementary Virginia Beach | 586 | 14.7% | 88.1% |
| Crozet Elementary Crozet | 571 | 15.1% | 75.5% |
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 Pearson's Corner Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Virginia | In Hanover County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 92.4% | #25 of 1,101 | #1 of 14 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 95.0% | #21 of 1,111 ▲ 43 | #1 of 14 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 93.0% | #30 of 1,111 ▲ 19 | #1 of 14 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 571 | #425 of 1,176 | #7 of 16 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.3:1 | #631 of 1,105 | #13 of 16 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 41.2% | #886 of 1,106 | #11 of 16 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 15.1% | #1,073 of 1,157 | #14 of 16 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.1% | #695 of 759 | #10 of 10 |
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
571
+24 (+4%) vs 2020
+7% since 1990-91, when it was 533
Student : Teacher
14.3:1
was 20.3:1
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 | 571 | 40 | 14.3:1 | 15% (86) |
| 2023-24 | 575 | 37 | 15.5:1 | 16% (91) |
| 2022-23 | 575 | 37 | 15.5:1 | 11% (66) |
| 2020-21 | 547 | 27 | 20.3:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 583 | 37.4 | 15.6:1 | 6% (36) |
| 2015-16 | 512 | 32 | 16.0:1 | 5% (25) |
| 2010-11 | 470 | 27 | 17.4:1 | 6% (27) |
| 2000-01 | 799 | 51 | 15.7:1 | 3% (27) |
| 1990-91 | 533 | 28 | 19.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Pearson's Corner Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 2% (583 to 571); teachers up 7% (37.4 to 40).
About Pearson's Corner Elementary
Pearson's Corner Elementary is a public elementary school run by Hanover County Public Schools in Mechanicsville, Virginia. Students in pre-K through 5 attend, and enrollment is 571 students.
Hanover County Public Schools serves 17,434 students across 24 schools.
White students make up a majority at Pearson's Corner Elementary, at 76%. The remaining shares are 8% Asian, 6% Black, 6% multiracial, and 4% Hispanic. Pearson's Corner Elementary's diversity index is 41%, against a US figure of 70%.
The teaching staff at Pearson's Corner Elementary is 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the ratio is 14.3:1. That matches the 13.8:1 average for elementary schools in Virginia fairly closely. About 15% of students, or 86, qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. For comparison, public schools in Hanover County average 34%.
allk12 grades Pearson's Corner Elementary an A+. The grade compares the school only with Virginia public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, Pearson's Corner Elementary would be expected to post about 84.0%. Its actual average proficiency rate on state tests is 92.4%.
Census estimates describe Hanover County this way: the median household income is $112,805, about 43% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 4%. In all, Hanover County has 26 public schools and roughly 17,434 students.
Nearby, Oak Knoll Middle is about 0.6 miles away. Within five miles of Pearson's Corner Elementary, there are at least 8 other public schools. Pearson's Corner Elementary is 1st of 9 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
Pearson's Corner Elementary is coded as Suburb: Large in federal locale data.
Federal data show a 4% enrollment increase, from 547 in 2020-21 to 571 in 2024-25. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio fell from 20.3:1 to 14.3:1.
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Hanover County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
112,879
Census ACS
Median income
$112,805
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
43%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
26
17,434 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Hanover County Public Schools
- Atlee HighHigh · 1,470 students
- Hanover HighHigh · 1,349 students
- Patrick Henry HighHigh · 1,294 students
- Mechanicsville HighHigh · 1,245 students
- Chickahominy MiddleMiddle · 1,199 students
- Liberty MiddleMiddle · 910 students
Other schools in Mechanicsville
- Atlee HighHigh · 1,470 students
- Hanover HighHigh · 1,349 students
- Mechanicsville HighHigh · 1,245 students
- Chickahominy MiddleMiddle · 1,199 students
- Bell Creek MiddleMiddle · 903 students
- Oak Knoll MiddleMiddle · 862 students
Nearby schools
- Oak Knoll Middle0.6 mi · 862
- Hanover High0.8 mi · 1,349
- Kersey Creek Elementary0.9 mi · 672
- Cool Spring Elementary1.4 mi · 852
- Atlee High1.5 mi · 1,470
- Chickahominy Middle1.5 mi · 1,199
Frequently asked questions
About Pearson's Corner ElementaryHow large is Pearson's Corner Elementary?
Pearson's Corner Elementary enrolls approximately 571 students in grades PK-05.
Is Pearson's Corner Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Pearson's Corner Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Pearson's Corner Elementary have?
Pearson's Corner Elementary employs 40 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.3:1.
What is the student diversity at Pearson's Corner Elementary?
Student demographics at Pearson's Corner Elementary are roughly 76% White, 4% Hispanic, 6% Black, 8% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is Pearson's Corner Elementary in?
Pearson's Corner Elementary is part of Hanover County Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.