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Enrollment
576
Elementary
DISTRICT 345 · STATE 499
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·TAZEWELL COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 510381001660
Richlands Elementary
309 East Front Street, Richlands, VA 24641 · (276) 964-4112 · Tazewell County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL576 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 89% 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
42 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.5:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
90%
521 students
DISTRICT 89% · 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 | 46 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 75 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 93 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 84 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 96 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 90 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 92 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (75) is 18% smaller than its 5th grade class (92).
Student demographics
7%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 15% · 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
79.0%
VA avg 72.7% . +2.0pp 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 79 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 2 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 2 points.
SOL results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 82.0% | 79.0% |
| 2023-24 | 84.0% | 85.0% |
| 2022-23 | 80.0% | 77.0% |
% 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
81.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
63.5%
based on VA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+18.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 82% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 63% 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 18 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 Richlands Elementary
Richlands Elementary's state test result (81.8% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Richlands Elementary this school | 576 | 90.5% | 81.8% |
| St. Paul Elementary St Paul | 514 | 86.8% | 97.6% |
| Honaker Elementary Honaker | 712 | 91.2% | 82.3% |
| Ridgeview Elementary Clintwood | 667 | 96.0% | 67.7% |
| Wise Primary Wise | 603 | 87.2% | 84.3% |
| J.W. Adams Combined Pound | 523 | 85.7% | 90.9% |
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 Richlands Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Virginia | In Tazewell County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 81.8% | #270 of 1,101 | N/A |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 79.0% | #441 of 1,111 ▼ 215 | N/A |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 82.0% | #293 of 1,111 ▼ 86 | N/A |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 576 | #411 of 1,176 | #1 of 7 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.7:1 | #489 of 1,105 | #2 of 6 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 7.4% | #1,096 of 1,106 | #6 of 6 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 90.5% | #320 of 1,157 | #2 of 7 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +6.9% | #172 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
576
-7 (-1%) vs 2020
-21% since 1990-91, when it was 727
Student : Teacher
13.7:1
was 15.8:1
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 | 576 | 42 | 13.7:1 | 90% (521) |
| 2023-24 | 561 | 45 | 12.5:1 | 86% (484) |
| 2022-23 | 547 | 39 | 14.0:1 | 83% (455) |
| 2020-21 | 583 | 37 | 15.8:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 539 | 29.5 | 18.3:1 | 86% (462) |
| 2015-16 | 574 | 29 | 19.8:1 | 62% (354) |
| 2010-11 | 598 | 33 | 18.1:1 | 59% (350) |
| 2000-01 | 538 | 40 | 13.4:1 | 61% (330) |
| 1990-91 | 727 | 39 | 18.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Richlands Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 7% (539 to 576); teachers up 42% (29.5 to 42).
About Richlands Elementary
Richlands Elementary is a medium-sized elementary school in Richlands, Virginia, one of the schools in Tazewell County Public Schools. A federal count lists 576 students at the school, in pre-K through 5.
Richlands Elementary is part of a district of 13 schools: Tazewell County Public Schools, with 5,134 students.
Richlands Elementary enrolls a student body that is 96% White. The school is also 3% multiracial. For comparison, Tazewell County is about 93% White. The chance that two students picked at random at Richlands Elementary belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 7%.
At Richlands Elementary, 42 full-time-equivalent teachers work with students, a ratio of about 13.7:1. Elementary schools in Virginia average about 13.8:1, a similar figure. Students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch make up 90% of enrollment. Across public schools in Tazewell County, the average is about the same, 89%.
Measured against Virginia public elementary schools, Richlands Elementary receives an A. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Richlands Elementary ranks in the top 10% of Virginia schools after adjusting test results for student poverty. Actual: 81.8%. Predicted: 63.5%. Difference: 18.3 points.
In Tazewell County (population about 39,624), median household income is about $47,313, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 17% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 13%. Richlands Elementary is one of 14 public schools in Tazewell County, which together enroll about 5,134 students.
Richlands Middle is located about 0.1 miles from Richlands Elementary. Within five miles are 3 other public schools. In a group of 9 nearby schools with scores, Richlands Elementary ranks 6th on average proficiency.
By NCES locale, the school is Town: Distant, or in a town some distance from an urbanized area.
The school's size has been steady, with 583 students in 2020-21 and 576 in 2024-25. Its ratio of students to teachers was 15.8:1 in 2020-21, and 13.7:1 in 2024-25.
Community posts for Richlands Elementary can cover sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Tazewell County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
39,624
Census ACS
Median income
$47,313
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
17%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
14
5,134 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Tazewell County Public Schools
- Richlands HighHigh · 557 students
- Tazewell HighHigh · 509 students
- Graham HighHigh · 489 students
- Richlands MiddleMiddle · 447 students
- Tazewell PrimaryElementary · 405 students
- Graham IntermediateElementary · 404 students
Other schools in Richlands
- Richlands HighHigh · 557 students
- Richlands MiddleMiddle · 447 students
Other Richlands Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Richlands Elementary. Richlands Elementary is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Richlands ElementaryRichlands, NC · 591 students
Nearby schools
- Richlands Middle0.1 mi · 447
- Richlands High0.2 mi · 557
- Cedar Bluff Elementary1.1 mi · 308
- Swords Creek Elementary8.6 mi · 93
- Belfast Elementary9.3 mi · 141
- Honaker Elementary10.5 mi · 712
Frequently asked questions
About Richlands ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Richlands Elementary?
Richlands Elementary enrolls approximately 576 students in grades PK-05.
Is Richlands Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Richlands Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Richlands Elementary?
Approximately 13.7:1 students per teacher at Richlands Elementary.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Richlands Elementary?
At Richlands Elementary, the student body is approximately 96% White, 0% Hispanic, 1% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is Richlands Elementary public or private?
Richlands Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Tazewell County Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.