Enrollment
316
Elementary
DISTRICT 336 · STATE 499
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LYNCHBURG CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 510234000966
Sandusky Elementary
5828 Apache Ln, Lynchburg, VA 24502 · (434) 515-5280 · Lynchburg city
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL316 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 31% of Virginia public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
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
13.2:1
24 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.0:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
93%
295 students
DISTRICT 95% · STATE 66%
Community
0
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 | 19 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 42 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 51 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 58 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 52 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 47 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 47 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (42) is 11% smaller than its 5th grade class (47).
Student demographics
65%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 65% · 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
65.0%
VA avg 74.2% . +10.0pp since 2022
Math
66.0%
VA avg 72.7% . +11.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 65 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 66 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 10 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 11 points.
SOL results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 65.0% | 66.0% |
| 2023-24 | 63.0% | 62.0% |
| 2022-23 | 55.0% | 55.0% |
% 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
61.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
62.7%
based on VA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 61% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 63% 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 Sandusky Elementary
Sandusky Elementary's state test result (61.1% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sandusky Elementary this school | 316 | 93.4% | 61.1% |
| Mary T. Christian Elementary Hampton | 313 | 90.4% | 64.1% |
| Park Avenue Elementary Danville | 361 | 95.0% | 46.3% |
| David A. Dutrow Elementary Newport News | 341 | 99.7% | 61.6% |
| Albert W. Patrick III Elementary Hampton | 394 | 92.4% | 62.9% |
| Perrymont Elementary Lynchburg | 377 | 93.4% | 43.8% |
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 Sandusky Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Virginia | In Lynchburg city |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 61.1% | #812 of 1,101 | #4 of 11 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 66.0% | #766 of 1,111 ▲ 36 | #2 of 11 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 65.0% | #740 of 1,111 ▲ 47 | #3 of 11 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 316 | #952 of 1,176 | #8 of 11 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.2:1 | #380 of 1,105 | #5 of 8 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.3% | #394 of 1,106 | #3 of 8 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 93.4% | #276 of 1,157 | #9 of 11 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.5% | #435 of 759 | #7 of 8 |
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
316
-19 (-6%) vs 2020
-42% since 1990-91, when it was 548
Student : Teacher
13.2:1
was 15.9:1
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 | 316 | 24 | 13.2:1 | 93% (295) |
| 2023-24 | 335 | 25.5 | 13.1:1 | 92% (308) |
| 2022-23 | 352 | 22.5 | 15.6:1 | 91% (321) |
| 2020-21 | 335 | 21 | 15.9:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 353 | 20.9 | 16.9:1 | 89% (314) |
| 2015-16 | 344 | 22 | 15.6:1 | 89% (305) |
| 2010-11 | 347 | 21 | 16.5:1 | 54% (188) |
| 2000-01 | 386 | 26 | 14.8:1 | 39% (152) |
| 1990-91 | 548 | 29 | 18.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Sandusky Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 10% (353 to 316); teachers up 15% (20.9 to 24).
About Sandusky Elementary
As a low-enrollment elementary school, Sandusky Elementary serves students in Lynchburg, Virginia. Students in pre-K through 5 make up the school's enrollment of 316 students. By comparison, elementary schools in Virginia enroll about 499 students on average.
Federal data list 16 schools in Lynchburg City Public Schools, with 7,657 students enrolled.
More than half of the students at Sandusky Elementary are Black (51%). The next largest groups are 23% White, 16% Hispanic, and 9% multiracial. In Lynchburg city overall, about 27% of residents are Black. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Sandusky Elementary scores 65%.
Sandusky Elementary reported 24 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, a ratio of 13.2:1. That is in line with the 13.8:1 average for elementary schools in Virginia. There are 295 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 93% of enrollment. The figure for public schools in Lynchburg city is close, at 95%.
Sandusky Elementary earns a C on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 31% of Virginia public elementary schools.
Given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, Sandusky Elementary would be expected to post about 62.7%. Its actual average proficiency rate across its state test results is 61.1%.
In the surrounding county, Lynchburg city, median household income comes to about $57,947, about 39% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 12%. The county's public schools total 24, with about 7,657 students.
Sandusky Elementary's closest public school neighbor is Sandusky Middle, about 0.1 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. On proficiency, Sandusky Elementary is ahead of the 50.7% nearby average, ranking 2nd of 9.
By NCES locale, the school is City: Small, or inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Enrollment fell by 6% across 4 years, from 335 in 2020-21 to 316 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio dropped from 15.9:1 in 2020-21 to 13.2:1 in 2024-25.
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Lynchburg city at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
79,497
Census ACS
Median income
$57,947
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
24
7,657 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Lynchburg City Public Schools
- E.C. Glass HighHigh · 1,220 students
- Heritage HighHigh · 1,113 students
- Sandusky MiddleMiddle · 583 students
- Paul Laurence Dunbar Middle for InnovationMiddle · 531 students
- Linkhorne MiddleMiddle · 519 students
- Heritage ElementaryElementary · 448 students
Other schools in Lynchburg
- E.C. Glass HighHigh · 1,220 students
- Heritage HighHigh · 1,113 students
- Brookville HighHigh · 1,017 students
- Tomahawk ElementaryElementary · 667 students
- Brookville MiddleMiddle · 648 students
- Leesville Road ElementaryElementary · 646 students
Other Sandusky Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Sandusky Elementary. Sandusky Elementary is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Sandusky Elementary SchoolSANDUSKY, MI · 471 students
Nearby schools
- Sandusky Middle0.1 mi · 583
- Perrymont Elementary1.1 mi · 377
- Heritage High1.2 mi · 1,113
- Sheffield Elementary1.3 mi · 443
- Heritage Elementary1.3 mi · 448
- T.C. Miller Elementary School for Innovation2.3 mi · 168
Frequently asked questions
About Sandusky ElementaryHow large is Sandusky Elementary?
Sandusky Elementary enrolls approximately 316 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Sandusky Elementary serve?
Sandusky Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does Sandusky Elementary have?
Sandusky Elementary employs 24 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.2:1.
What is the student diversity at Sandusky Elementary?
Student demographics at Sandusky Elementary are roughly 23% White, 16% Hispanic, 51% Black, 1% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Who oversees Sandusky Elementary?
Sandusky Elementary is overseen by Lynchburg City Public Schools in Lynchburg city.
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