Preston Park Elementary

Preston Park Elementary, a medium-sized K-5 school in Roanoke, Virginia, part of Roanoke City Public Schools, teaches 535 students, covering grades K through 5.

Roanoke City Public Schools runs 24 schools in total, collectively educating 13,811 students. Preston Park Elementary is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Preston Park Elementary shows that Hispanic students make up the majority at 60%. The remainder comes out to 14% Black, 14% White, 6% multiracial, 4% Asian. By comparison, Roanoke city as a whole is about 9% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Preston Park Elementary logs 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.3:1. The state averages about 13.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 98% of students at Preston Park Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Preston Park Elementary sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 61.3%; actual is 40.5%, a gap of -20.8 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Roanoke city) shows that the typical household earns roughly $55,378 per year, 30% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Roanoke city's 30 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,392 students), Preston Park Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Breckinridge Middle, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Preston Park Elementary. On composite proficiency, Preston Park Elementary comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 49.2%.

Preston Park Elementary operates from an urban location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Preston Park Elementary has stayed largely flat, going from 531 students in 2018 to 535 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 33% to 60% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 in 2025.

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