Riverheads Elementary

Riverheads Elementary, a reasonably sized primary school in Staunton, Virginia, one of the schools within Augusta County Public Schools, teaches 714 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Virginia's public schools average about 499 students each, so Riverheads Elementary sits 43% bigger than that benchmark.

Augusta County Public Schools comprises 20 schools with combined enrollment of 10,742 students; Riverheads Elementary is among them.

On demographics, Riverheads Elementary logs that nearly all students (88%) are White. The remainder comes out to 6% multiracial, 3% Hispanic, 2% Black. Compared to Augusta County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting Riverheads Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Around 73% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Riverheads Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 68.3%, the actual is 68.9%, a residual of +0.6 points.

Zooming out to the county, Augusta County reports that median household earnings sit near $82,049, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Augusta County runs 25 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,742 students), of which Riverheads Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Riverheads Middle, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Riverheads Elementary. On composite proficiency, Riverheads Elementary comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 72.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 3%: 693 students in 2018 compared to 714 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 15.5:1 in 2025.

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