Ridgeview Elementary

Set in Clintwood, Virginia, Ridgeview Elementary is a medium-sized elementary school, operated by Dickenson County Public Schools. It teaches 667 students across grades pre-K through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 34% above the state mean of about 499.

Within Dickenson County Public Schools, which oversees 4 schools and 2,074 students, Ridgeview Elementary is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Ridgeview Elementary reports that 97% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Compared to Dickenson County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 58 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting Ridgeview Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 96% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Ridgeview Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 62.0%, the actual is 67.7%, a residual of +5.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Dickenson County indicate the typical household earns roughly $47,254 per year, about 10% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Ridgeview Elementary is one of 6 public schools in Dickenson County (combined enrollment of about 2,074 students).

Ridgeview High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Ridgeview Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Ridgeview Elementary at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 78.3%.

The school occupies a rural site.

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